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Organizations such as the Irish Queer Archive attempt to collect and preserve history related to queer studies. Queer theory is a field of post-structuralist critical theory that emerged in the early 1990s out of the fields of queer studies and women's studies. Applications of queer theory include queer theology and queer pedagogy.
David Halperin, an early queer theorist, writes in his article "The Normalization of Queer Theory" that de Lauretis' usage was somewhat controversial at first, as she chose to combine the word "queer" which was just starting to be used in a "gay-affirmative sense by activists, street kids, and members of the art world," and the word "theory ...
Quare theory was created to promote the voices of queer people of color. Quare theory is similar to queer theory; they are both forms of critical theory that focus on the study and theories of queer identities and actions. [1] E. Patrick Johnson believed that within queer theory there was an erasure or minimization of queer people of color's ...
The ballroom house system follows a kinship structure, where trans women, trans and queer men and drag artists become mothers and fathers, creating their own families or ‘houses.’
Inspired by ethnic studies, women's studies, and similar identity-based academic fields influenced by the critical theory of the Frankfurt School, the initial emphasis was on "uncovering the suppressed history of gay and lesbian life;" it also made its way into literature departments, where the emphasis was on literary theory. [2] Queer theory ...
LGBTQ linguistics is the study of language as used by members of LGBTQ communities. Related or synonymous terms include lavender linguistics, advanced by William Leap in the 1990s, which "encompass[es] a wide range of everyday language practices" in LGBTQ communities, [1] and queer linguistics, which refers to the linguistic analysis concerning the effect of heteronormativity on expressing ...
Experts explain the meaning of the word "queer", how and when to use it, how to know if you're queer, and how to find queer community.
Once used as a slur, queer has been reclaimed by many LGBTQ people who find it a fitting identifier. Here’s what it means to be the Q in LGBTQ.