oh boy! i can't wait to feel unwelcome and severely depressed all month because i'm completely uncomfortable with queer being used as an umbrella term!

i'm really not having a good day today can you tell


EDIT: okay i forgot about disabling comments having a 24-hour cooldown when i made this journal, and i'm still not in a good frame of mind right now

but clarification: self-identifying is cool and if queer is the best fit for you then go for it, i'm not here to tell you that you can't call yourself whatever you want
i just don't like how people use it as an umbrella term for *all* lgbt+ people as a group
it still has all the connotations of a slur to me, and i'm sure i'm not the only one
all it really reaffirms to me is that i don't belong, and as someone who's been suffering from that feeling from most of my life... it sucks