Queer
Queer is a word with an evolving history, and a word that has a potential reclamation for the positive. It's meanings have drifted from "strange" to "ruin" to homosexual." After its initiation as a word for gay, it became associated with negative feelings and attitudes. Although many in the LGBT community wish to reclaim the word in a negative connotation, others feel that it has too much of a negative past.
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