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Why I identify as queer rather than gay

There are several reasons why I choose to identify as queer rather than gay. 

1. I reject heteronormativity and homonormativity. 

2. My sexuality isn’t really covered under the label gay.

3. It’s a pejorative term that I’m taking back. 

4. I prefer the term queer to gay or any of the variants of the acronym describing the queer community because it’s more open and less exclusive sounding to me. 

5. I reject the exclusive, mainstream gay rights movement because all it does is perpetuate this notion that we, as a community, require state sanction, can only gain liberation via lobbying groups like the HRC, and creates a space where trans* people aren’t really thought of as being integral to the community [see ENDA, and how the HRC dropped the protections for trans* folks to get it passed]. 

Gay and queer are just words. You know what’ll happen next? Queer will become mainstream and then you’ll jump off that ship, because ewww labels.

You let yourself be defined by labels, more than those who just live their lives and don’t care about if other people call them gay or queer or whatever. 

I’m lesbian. And I don’t give a fuck if anyone thinks that’s homonormative. It’s what I am. The end.

If you want to be called queer, that’s cool. But don’t make it another movement. That’s condescending.

I love the part where you think I hate labels, but at the same time I want to be defined by them. I also love the part where you clarify that you’re cool if you want to be called queer, but everything previous to that says otherwise. 

brb I have to go be ~condescending~ now. 

hey kique you’re not allowed to identify as queer because you feel more comfortable with that label and it more accurately identifies your politics and sexuality no no that’s condenscending

i will make it another movement because your movement doesn’t give a fuck about anyone who isn’t white (though i don’t want to insist that the queer movement is doing a very good job of racial awareness, either), cisgender, gender-normative and who doesn’t make enough money to donate to the HRC’s $150 plate dinners for corporate sponsors and celebrities who wave rainbow flags whenever there’s a camera on them.

I am a gay male and I give a fuck. I am just one person, but I care because I truly believe that all people are people, regardless of the differing facets of their overall personhood. Everyone should be equal, not because we are all the same, but because each and everyone one of us deserves to be free in our own way.