What kind of person is a coolie?

Cooler (Queer, not Qoo?!). ), a generalized term of English origin (umbrella term). It is used in contemporary language to refer to all non-traditional genders and sexual orientations in society, and is an umbrella term for all non-heterosexual and non-cisgender people.

In short, anyone who is not cisgender or heterosexual is one of us!

Look at that, isn't that super cool? It's almost like there's an illusion that we're in charge! And don't forget our name, we're called the Cool-er Yay! Sounds pretty cool, doesn't it.

But as cool as we are in the Chinese context, that's not how Queer is portrayed in the English-speaking world. It's a history of sexual minority families, to put it mildly.

While "queer" is now a proud label for us sexual minorities, when it was first used it was actually a derogatory term.

At the beginning of the 16th century (around 1500), "queer" was absorbed by the English language from Scots, and officially entered the English-speaking world. It was also during this period that the word "queer" was formally linked to the meaning of "strange" and "different" for the later derivation in the sexually-oriented The word "queer" was formally linked to the word "weird" and "different", and laid the groundwork for the later derivation of the word to mean sexually oriented.

In more recent times, when the nineteenth and twentieth centuries converged, the original meaning of queer, "strange", was still widely used, for example by Conan Doyle:

Holmes raised his eyebrows.

"And yet you have sent for me," he said. "And yet you have sent for me?"

"Ah, yes, that's another matter - a mere trifle, but the thing is, I don't know. - a mere trifle, but the thing you take an interest in -- queer , you know, and what you might call freakish. It has nothing to do with the main fact -- can't have, on the face of it."

"What is it, then?

"What is it, then?"

The word "queer" as meaning "perverse" appeared in 1904 in The Second Trail of Blood, one of the 56 short stories in Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes mysteries.

However, over time, the original meaning of queer began to be replaced by that of "abnormal sexual behavior" and "sexual deviation". The trend.

When the 20th century rolled around, according to the Oxford Dictionary, the meaning of "queer" evolved into a term of insult for non-heterosexuals.

During the civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s, "queer" was used in conjunction with the words "dyke" and "faggot" to attack the LGBT community along with words like "dyke" and "faggot" (dead faggot) to attack the LGBT community.

If we traveled back in time in a time machine and introduced ourselves as cool kids, it would probably be very awkward ...... similar to how humiliating it is to introduce ourselves as "broken X" in the current context.

But with the development of the gay and lesbian movement, we're finally regaining confidence in ourselves and starting to own our own "pride". To us, people who screamed "queer" were as ridiculous as kindergarteners cursing at children!

This powerful confidence eventually led us to embrace the word "queer" and make this word, once our "enemy", our own label.

Queer Nation poster:

"Homophobia is a social disease"

"Homophobia is a threat to your health. A famous example of this powerful assertion is Queer Nation, a sexual-minority rights organization founded in New York in 1990. It pioneered the use of the word "queer" as its name, and used the homophobic rhetoric itself to create posters to counter it: they copied the syntax of the homophobic rhetoric exactly as it was written, replacing only "queer" with "homophobic" in all the original sentences, and then replacing "queer" with "homophobic". "homophobic" in all the original sentences (see above).

In the context of the time, these moves were highly ironic to the mainstream, and reflected the confidence that sexual minorities had in their community.

The 1985 Gay Pride Parade

And much of this confidence among sexual minorities was due to the development of LGBT studies in the 1980s. In the United States in the 1980s, "queer," originally used as an insult, was revived by radical sexual-minority supporters as a generalization of their theories.

This is the theory of the queer.