I consider myself gay, but not all three.
2007-08-03 02:29:33 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender
Homosexual is the old medical term.
Gay is the term we applied to us. during the 1940s or so.
Queer is the insulting tern straights have applied to us.
2007-08-03 02:34:40 · answer #1 · answered by robert2020 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Nothing really, except homosexual is the correct term and gay and queer are like slangs, which often sound very offencive as well.
But you know what, queer and gay only applies to homosexual guys mostly, girls is a whole new concept "lezbians", so thats a bit strange, but girls call them selves gay as well, but I'v never heard of a girl called queer, or a guy called a dyke.
All those words are just slangs.
2007-08-03 02:42:15 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The correct term is "homosexual"...gay and queer is just a term brought up from the old days as to what people call homosexuals because heterosexuals are closed minded.
2007-08-03 02:32:51 · answer #3 · answered by Bills, Bills, Bills... 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'm all three...I see no difference...just a preference on what you want to be called. But that's just how I feel about it. I know some people that get offended by being called queer...
2007-08-03 02:51:12 · answer #4 · answered by Oberon 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gay and queer are words not confined to homosexualism. Unfortunately they have been contaminated by incorrect use. I don't mean that as an insult to homosexuals; I mean that the words have been misused. Of course in the way they are used they mean the same thing.
2007-08-03 02:37:36 · answer #5 · answered by william a 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
gay is informal, yet some human beings take maleness as implied except reported in any different case, queer is informal and much less specific (consists of bisexuals and transfolk, in assessment to the different 2 words which examine with entirely comparable-intercourse attracted human beings), yet is an insult in the midst of reclamation, and gay is scientific, using fact it became the scientific call for the situation of being comparable-intercourse attracted back whilst they nonetheless theory it became a psychological ailment.
2016-10-09 03:06:20 · answer #6 · answered by rajkumar 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
homosexual is a scientific term, aka "homo" = same, sexual = sexuality, homosexuality.
gay, is simpley warped to mean "homosexual" nowadays, used to mean happy (in the same way that "sod" used to mean a clod of dirt, and now is another derogatory term)
queer, also used to have a different meaning ( i think it meant similar to gay) but it's now construed to mean "different" .
i'm gay, as in the old term happy, but i'm not homosexual, and i don't consider myself queer ( though no doubt other people will have different views)
2007-08-03 02:36:56 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Queer is not always an insult. It is a word being reclaimed by the LGBT community.
2007-08-03 02:37:22 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no difference they are just different terms for the same thing.Unfortunately to the Neanderthals people have to have labels
2007-08-03 02:35:25 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I didn't know there was a difference. I just thought it was different terms with the same meaning....
2007-08-03 02:32:52 · answer #10 · answered by hapetobme 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋