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Cake day: June 29th, 2023

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  • I used to be awkward about queer’s history, but the fact is that it’s the word we use as a community. It’s so adopted that using it as a slur is of similar difficulty to using gay as a slur. And that’s really it, when I hear queer being said by a straight cis person I don’t think that they’re unaware of the word’s history or that they’re bigoted, or that they’re too comfortable, in fact bigots don’t really say queer anymore because it’s sufficiently reclaimed.

    LGBT and it’s derivatives are great as more formal terms, but the ever expansion and slow to say aspects hinder casual use.