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What does it mean to be Queer?

Profile: Anonymous
Anonymous on Jul 21, 2018
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Queer means to be something a little different to the normal society standards sexuality and gender stand point and to just be who ya are on the inside
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Profile: Anonymous
Anonymous on Jul 26, 2018
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To be queer means to be powerful. I am pansexual, and I have heard “queer” as an insult many times. The LGBTQ+ community reclaimed that word, and now “queer” means a powerful and beautiful person.
Profile: Anonymous
Anonymous on Jul 26, 2018
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It's an umbrella term for anyone who isn't the heterosexual norm. It does not determine your gender like lesbian or gay.
Profile: Diya83
Diya83 on Jul 26, 2018
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It means that you’re part of the LGBT+. You could be gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, pansexual, asexual, etc
Profile: musicalHope13
musicalHope13 on Jul 27, 2018
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To be queer means that you're not cisgender and heterosexual. Whether that means you're a lesbian, gay, bi, pan, ace, aro, an enby, or anything in between, you're queer, just because you're not cishet.
Profile: Opalescentrose
Opalescentrose on Jul 29, 2018
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If feel queer is an umbrella term used to describe sexual and gender identities "outside of the norm" by society's standards (heterosexual/heteroromantic, cisgender). So as long as you are not all of these you are queer. A cis lesbian would be just as queer as a trans lesbian, for example, since they are out of the cishet category
Profile: LunarLemon8
LunarLemon8 on Aug 1, 2018
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Being queer is when you're not cis-gender or straight or hetero-romantic. So to say it easy: being queer is the opposite of being straight, "non-normative" as wikipedia would say. So being queer means that you're part of the lgbtq+ specturm
Profile: eximsam19
eximsam19 on Aug 8, 2018
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For me, Queer means whatever I feel like on that particular day! One of the benefits of a catch-all term like "Queer" as opposed to "Bisexual" or "Gay", or even "Homosexual" is that it allows me the chance to continue to evolve without having to continually change how I label my sexuality.
Profile: Anonymous
Anonymous on Aug 10, 2018
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It means you don't identify as a specific sexuality. Some people also use it as a word encompassing all LGBT+ people, but it depends on who you ask. If someone wants to be called queer, it is completely their choice.
Profile: caringEnergy22
caringEnergy22 on Aug 11, 2018
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That's difficult to explain because people have multiple explanations. I interpret it as follows: to be anything in the LGBTQ+ spectrum, yet to be nothing. Does that make sense?
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