Reply #38: i did a program at a university one summer and was eating lunch when [View All]

i saw a group of people from another program all wearing shirts that on their back said "queer bomb". myself (being straight) and a naturally curious person walked up to them and started talking about the negative connontations that society associates with the word queer and as to what their exact purpose is by conforming to society's expectations. (they were all gay) they instructed me that they were performing a process known as "word reclamation" whereby the word queer only recently became negatively associated with homosexuals as perpetuated by certain persons in the country (fundies) and that by so obviously and flagrantly announcing themselves as queer they wished to re-establish a time when being gay was natural as was using the word queer to describe someone who is gay.