[ SECRET POST #2413 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2413 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

*winces* Please, homosexual is not a word used by 98% of queers.

[feotakahari]

Seriously? Three years ago, that was the word I could safely use when I was afraid another word might be offensive. (Actually, wasn't there a time not so long ago when "queer" itself was considered offensive?)

[(Anonymous)]

"Queer" was offensive about oooh 20 years ago in the western Anglosphere and started getting widely used about 10 years ago.

Where do you live where "homosexual" is an acceptable descriptor for queers? No queer/glbtiq person. I know will touch it with a bargepole; it is only used by ignorant or bigoted straight people, or very old crusty gay men.

[helenadax]

Where I live, "homosexual" is the polite word. We use "gay" too, but it's an anglicism and is usually used to talk only about homosexual men. Homosexual women are "lesbianas" (the ones I know don't like to be called "gay"). "Homosexual" is used to talk about (gay) men and women. And straight people are "heterosexuales", there's no slang/informal word with the same meaning.

[(Anonymous)]

Ah, non-English-speaking. Forgive me. It's generally confronting and othering in the western Anglosphere.

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DA

I think it depends on your area and your demographic, honestly. Here near Seattle, me and my under-20 friends use "gay" because "homosexual" sounds clinical and "queer" isn't something we ever hear being used.

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A AYRT RT

Yeah, queer isn't universally used in my experience, gay is pretty common, though of course if you're bi or whatever it doesn't cover it, but I use gay a lot. Homosexual is clinical and like you have a condition. It's just used too much by bigots. I use "homo" sometimes in a jokey way, like "us filthy homos", but never to describe myself to strangers.

[(Anonymous)]

It's used by the majority of queer folks in my area when applicable, so I think that might be very much a by-location thing.

[(Anonymous)]

You absolutely right, we use homo.