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   Tim Bray (timbray@cosocial.ca)'s status on Sunday, 01-Oct-2023 11:42:46 JST Tim Bray

   I, a straight person, have a question. I'm talking about homophobia in a draft blog piece, and what’s a good choice of word for the people that homophobes dislike and abuse? Has it got to the point where “queer” is respectful and appropriate? Is “LGBTQ” better? “Gender-diverse”? (I think I’m correct to think that “homophobe” has grown to include anti-trans and gender-related bigotries generally?) Who has written a really good essay on the subject? Thanks in advance.

   #lgbtq #gender #homophobia

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     Erin Kissane (kissane@mas.to)'s status on Sunday, 01-Oct-2023 11:42:44 JST Erin Kissane

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     • unicorndeburgh

     @unicorndeburgh @timbray This isn’t an answer to the original question, but my own position on this, fwiw, is that queer is generally fine used as an adjective by anyone who isn’t being a jerk but I don’t want to see it as a noun in writing from a straight person pretty much ever. “Queers” spoken out loud by a straight person has me taking off my earrings.

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     unicorndeburgh (unicorndeburgh@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 01-Oct-2023 11:42:45 JST unicorndeburgh

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     @timbray

     I'm straight, and I think Queer has not reached the point that straight people can quite use it yet.

     LGBTQIA+ is safer.

     Paul Cantrell repeated this.