![]() ![]() It’s cool to be queer, and I confess that the queer claim on “queer” irks me a little because as a somewhat outside-the-mainstream character I could reasonably call myself (in the classical sense) queer, but I would then be accused, on the battlefield of the culture wars, of illegitimate gender appropriation so I’ll play it straight as a straight male. Gradually what is now called, awkwardly, the LGBTQ+ (ad infinitum) community has appropriated queer as the sharpest, simplest word to signal the great range of nonconforming sexual identities and practices. It was sort of an insult when I was growing up. Just as gay used to mean happy or carefree, queer used to mean odd, unconventional, a little strange, not normal. “Hispanic” from the ’60s to the ’80s meant pretty much anyone with a Spanish surname despite vast differences in nationality, ethnicity, color and class. “Negro” was a polite way to say Black, more formal than “colored” and long before “African American” was considered kosher. “Queer” was a somewhat derogatory term for homosexual. up-to-date).In the 1950s and early ’60s, when I was a boy, certain words that could be both nouns and adjectives were used to designate certain minority groups. up-to-date) information, visit our website. Hopefully, you’ve learned a lot more about the hyphenation process now! Let’s finish up with a quick quiz to see what you’ve learned! Choose from A or B when you pick the answers and refer to them in the “Quiz Answers” section to see how you did!
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