15 Responses To The Question: “What Does The Word ‘Queer’ Mean To You?”

“Queer is what you make it.”

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“I knew I was attracted to multiple genders for years but didn’t know how to own it. The first time I called myself queer everything fell into place. I embraced my sexuality as disruptive and transformative. Today, queerness is the base of my politics, a lens through which I examine history, and the fuel that fires my writing. To be queer means I wake up every day ready to both love who I am and push myself to grow.” —Audrey White, 23

“I don’t typically ‘define’ myself as queer explicitly, although I very much identify with the term. ‘The other’ so thats super ambiguous but I think queer means like anything that is atypical or ‘other’ from the context in which it is being used. As I’m a homosexual male, I identify with the term queer in that there is an underlying feeling of otherness from the majority of the American population in many areas of my life (politics, economics, business, pop culture, etc.) that intrinsically accompanies being part of a minority. I relate to the term in that even as a gay male I often feel atypical or somehow unlike the majority of my cohorts (with regard to how I express my sexuality, etc.) and this sense of otherness is a sentiment I generally identify as a feeling of queerness.” —Matt Little, 25

“Being queer means that I get to fuck who I want (with their consent) without being asked what I am first, as if I have it all figured out at 24 somehow.” —Lucy, 24

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