tbh i don’t like that queer has kinda replaced lgbtq+ in a lot of media. not bc i dislike queer, it’s my preferred label, but bc i do not consider those terms synonyms. in anglophone countries at least, i think queer has always been a political term and i dislike that it’s lost its “teeth” so to speak. that’s a word people had to steal back from both cishets and assimilationist gays who threw trans people and bipoc under the bus to have a better chance at acceptance for themselves. it’s a word that was thrown at people even within the community bc they weren’t able to “fit in” enough. it was a word used at riots and protests and it was used very much so in a reclaimed “fuck you” kind of way. it was literally a slur we ripped back outta their mouths on purpose. yet so many people who use queer now are extremely reactionary. you’ve got corporations using it, and you’ve got the most conservative lgbtq+ people ever using it too. they wear the window dressing of being a radical punk, but they’d cry if they saw a homeless person on the bus with them. feminism and racial justice hurts their feelings. they’re concerned about the optics over the intersectionality. and it makes me so damn mad. some of these people would’ve hated stonewall if they’d been around at the time but still have the nerve to say Queer Power like it’s an advertisement