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I find that the best explanation for this comes from the colors of the Pride flag.
Red - Red symbolizes life. The queer community is bursting at the seams with life and joy.
Orange - Orange represents healing. In a homophobic society, there is plenty of room for healing and becoming an ally.
Yellow - Yellow represents sunlight. It sends a message of being yourself, rather than hiding in the shadows.
Green - Green represents nature, and that what we are is perfectly natural.
Blue - Blue repr sents serenity, and that we wish to live peacefully alongside our straight counterparts.
Purple - Purple represents spirit. That even if you put us down, we will overcome.
For me, being a non-binary ace/aro, being able to identify my differences and just being able to proudly accept who I am on a daily basis is what it means to be queer.
to me being queer is being LGBTQ+. well, more specifically like more than one gender sexually/romantically. it doesn’t always mean the same to everyone.
To me, being queer means to be different. A person doesn’t have to be in the LGBTQ+ community to identify as queer.
Queer is an umbrella term for a person who belongs in the LGBT+ community, or isn't heterosexual and/or cisgender. Originally meaning "strange" or "peculiar", queer came to be used pejoratively against those with same-sex desires or relationships in the late 19th century.
Being queer can mean lots of things for lots of people! A lot of time people identify as queer because they don’t find a specific label that fits or they just don’t want to define themselves. Both are good and valid reasons.
Anonymous
May 30th, 2018 3:26pm
Queer means you are naturally attracted to thr same sex, or it could mean, you are naturally attracted to anything outside of the society's norm for relationships.
Anonymous
May 30th, 2018 12:17am
one definition is "strange"- the other means "gay/homosexual"...
Anonymous
May 23rd, 2018 10:11pm
To be queer means to be a part of the lgbt+ community. Most people who identify as queer don’t have a label that fits them specificily.
to be queer is another word for gay/lesbian, being queer is nothing to be ashamed of and should not be seen as a bad thing. if you have any further questions about this, message me and i’ll try my best to support and answer all your questions you may have.
Anonymous
May 23rd, 2018 2:09am
To be queer is to be a sexuality that differs from heterosexual in any way or having a gender identity different than cisgender (although this is usually referred to as genderqueer)
Anonymous
May 13th, 2018 10:27am
Queer is a basic umbrella term that is used for either sexuality or gender. Sometimes it is used to help someone figure out what they're feeling (same-sex feelings for example) and they're not sure how to describe themselves. Sometimes it is used for people who prefer not to use labels, and all of this is perfectly okay.
Queer is a term that is used to describe people who identify as something other than heterosexual (straight) or cisgender (the gender you were assigned at birth)
Anonymous
April 20th, 2018 5:37am
To be anything different than the strict set heteronormative standards used buy most of society, whether that be sexuality other that heterosexual hetero-romantic, a gender identity non-conforming with that if your birth, or something else that sets you apart
Anonymous
April 15th, 2018 10:36pm
Most people would use it as a term for weird or odd, but queer truly just means being homosexual or gay
Originally, the word "queer" meant to be weird or unusual. In the LGBTQ+ community, it means to not be the "default" person you were originally born as (i.e. being cis and/or straight.
Anonymous
April 7th, 2018 10:57am
Being queer is an umbrella term for not conforming to being heterosexual and cisgender. It used to be used as a slur but is being reclaimed by the LGBTQ+ community.
Anonymous
April 5th, 2018 10:36pm
“queer" is an adjective used by some people whose sexual orientation is not exclusively heterosexual.
It means that you simply do not fit into society's preconfigured archetypes of sexual behavior that some assume is "right". Aren't we all a little queer?
queer can mean anything, being part of the lgbt community is one way to describe it. your sexual orientation or gender does not mean weather you are or not, its your choice
It means loving who you love and being yourself and expressing yourself in anyway you feel represents you. Dressing how you want and styling yourself how works well for you. It allows you to be yourself in an open community.
Anonymous
February 7th, 2018 2:01pm
It is a rudely used term for being LGBTQ+. Or rather, it was. Now it is commonly used without any rudeness.
Anonymous
February 4th, 2018 2:07am
To be queer means to be homosexual and like the same gender as you. Alternatively, it means eccentric or weird.
I means being anything that isn't straight or cis, for example being lgbtq+ (the 'q' meaning queer) â¤
To be queer is to identify as something other than straight or cis-gendered. This includes anything in between the binaries.
Anonymous
February 2nd, 2018 6:52pm
Queer is an umbrella term for all sexualities and genders. You can identify as anything you feel, and it's up to you to determine your feelings
Queer is an umbrella term describing anyone in the LGBT community. It can be used to describe anyone who is not straight or cisgender.
Anonymous
January 7th, 2018 3:07am
can be used to describe someone's sexual orientation or stand as a political statement. Its definition has many dimensions, from gender identification to a resistance against structural rigidity to a strange sensation or state of being.
By the book, it means ones identity to be divergent from heterosexuality.
Not by the book, that is a tricky question, at least for me. I feel like for me, it symbolizes freedom of expression and a break away from tradition of seeing people for what is between their legs (I am gender fluid). For me, being queer, means being unapologetic about whom I like, about seeing people for who they are and loving them for their history, what has brought them to be that which is in front of me. I feel more in touch with my humanity and that much closer to understanding myself. Every day is a journey.
anything on the spectrum, it's something hard to define simply because it's an umbrella term, or a term used by people who don't want a bunch of terms boxing them in, or their views on themselves change.
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