Why Some Black GLBT Peeps Hate the 'Q' Word

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Why Some Black GLBT Peeps Hate the 'Q' Word
Posted by Monica Roberts at 8:31 PM

http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2009/01/why-some-black-glbt-peeps-hate-q-word.html

While there are some people who refer to the GLBT community as the 'queer' community, as you probably noticed as you peruse this blog I'm not one of them. It's also a sentiment shared by some of my fellow GLBT African-Americans.

When I used to do the 'After Hours' radio show with Jimmy Carper back home on KPFT-FM, he'd use the tag line 'Queer radio with attitude'. It made me uncomfortable, but since it was his show and I was only a rotating co-host, not much I could do about.

Some of my personal dislike with the 'Q' word not only has to do with it being used as a derogatory epithet, but the dictionary definition of it as well.