Why We Use The Word “Queer”
With a nod of affirmation and appreciation for the generations who fought for equality before us, we now reclaim and affirm “queer” as an inclusive, powerful term because it creates space big enough to include all the bodies and souls that never quite fit before.
Telling Queer History acknowledges that “queer” is simultaneously powerful, painful, empowering, and perhaps incomplete, but because it embodies the political power of both “f*ck you” and “all are welcome,” we embrace it and all the tensions it represents. Queer says, “I exist and I matter!”