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This slogan is often used by more militant gay people and implies self-defense against gay bashers. "Majority doesn't exist" This slogan was popularized by MAKEOUT in Belarus during the 2016 opening of the "meta- queer festival". "We're here. We're queer. Get used to it" [2] This slogan was popularized by Queer Nation. [3] "Hey, hey! Ho, ho!
The inauguration of "Queer Shopping Network." Members of Queer Nation travel from New York City to the Newport Mall in Jersey City with leaflets offering information about queers, safe sex tips, and a list of famous queers throughout history. The leaflets are titled "We're here, we're queer and we'd like to say hello!" [14] June 1990
Their political philosophy was succinctly summed up in the now-clichéd slogan, "We're Here. We're Queer. Get Used to It." Queer Nation relied on large and public meetings to set the agendas and plan the actions of its numerous committees (such as LABIA: Lesbians and Bisexuals in Action, and SHOP: Suburban Homosexual Outreach Project).
These feelings found their expression in 1990 with the establishment of Queer Nation, a radical organization best known for its slogan "We're here. We're queer. Get used to it". [2] In 1969, gay activist Don Jackson from California proposed to take over Alpine County, California—a project also known as Stonewall Nation. [3]
Growing up identifying as a heterosexual girl in the ’90s, "queer," to me, seemed like a word to describe those on the fringes, people who didn’t "get" life; a synonym for "sad" or "weird."
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.
Even when films were expressly designed to provoke desire in the opposite sex, artists from Marlene Dietrich to Rock Hudson couldn't help but bring their lived experience as queer people to their ...
This would continue on in the 1990s, with Queer Nation's use of "queer" in their protest chants, such as "We're here! We're queer! Get used to it!" [10] [9] As an academic discipline, queer theory itself was developed by American academics Judith Butler at University of California, Berkley, and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick at Duke University. [11]