Oh dear. Turns out the majority of people really don’t like “Queer”
After showing perceptible increases in 2020 and 2021, U.S. adults’ identification as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or something other than heterosexual held steady in 2022, at 7.2% in the latest Gallop Poll.
The data are based on aggregated polling data from 2022 Gallup telephone surveys, encompassing interviews with over 10,000 U.S. adults. In each survey, Gallup asks respondents if they identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or something else, allowing them to choose multiple identities.
As is typically the case, the greatest share of LGBT adults — more than half, or 4.2% of all U.S. adults — identify as bisexual. Some reasoning behind this has to do with women being more open sexually to same sex partners than men. About one in five LGBT adults identify as gay, about one in seven say they are lesbian, and slightly fewer than one in 10 identify as transgender. Queer hardly even made the chart coming in at a whopping 0.01% self identifying as it.
This finding proves that “Queer” while it been over-hyped and over-used by the media, LGBT orgs, and smaller self interest groups has not taken off and embraced by the community as a whole.
“Queer hardly even made the chart coming in at a whopping 0.01% self identifying as it.
This finding proves that “Queer” while it been over-hyped and over-used by the media, LGBT orgs, and smaller self interest groups has not taken off and embraced by the community as a whole.”
YA don’t say? A word that’s the equivalent of a slur, one that’s REGULARLY USED in assaults on gay people isn’t something most people call themselves? Next they’ll be telling us that most Latinos hate the term LatinX. I keep telling people this and NO ONE FUCKING LISTENS. What somebody chooses to call themselves, no skin off my nose. I’ll be respectful and cordial enough to call you whatever you want to be called. My problem comes with when I am supposed to call myself something that I really don’t even agree with.
Terms like queer and latinx literally seem like they came out of the mind of some college professor that never talks to regular human beings. Like it was something created by somebody who does a lot of talking but not a whole lot of listening. Queer is the fetch of self-identifying terms. LGBT journalists really needs to stop trying to make it happen.
@JurassicQueer here! And staying that way because gay just doesn’t get me through the day and most certainly isn’t definitive enough to encompass my political stance or identity. As a linguist I most certainly recognize the historical baggage, but as with the Radical Faeries, Dykes on Bikes, and many others; I choose to not be defined by others’ usage, but rather create my own and define its boundaries for myself.
And I don’t see any overarching or specific media agenda that is proposing its usage!??
I attended those early 1990s MLA Queer Theory colloquiums and also those involving critical race theory, but they weren’t being stapled to our foreheads!!
I’ve been queer ever since leaving behind the trash-filled streets of Stonewall that first night, whereas before then I was: homosexual, faggot, etc. as defined by others, but never myself. But being queer somehow actually clarifies myself to myself both sexually, politically, and at times, histrionically, if I so choose!!
And gay has become much too normative for what I’m looking for!