LGBTQIA+ on Sidechat | Yall don't understand, there isn't even a common term I can describe myself as in my culture that isn't a slur. Like if you were coming out (which will never happen), you're gonna refer to yourself as the slur. Every other term is just foreign to them.

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LGBTQIA+ 1d

Yall don't understand, there isn't even a common term I can describe myself as in my culture that isn't a slur. Like if you were coming out (which will never happen), you're gonna refer to yourself as the slur. Every other term is just foreign to them.

Anonymous 21h

American sci-fi author Samuel R Delaney, a New Yorker in the 50s, encountered the same issue. When he was trying to come out, he found himself describing his experience as sad, pitiable, when in reality he quite enjoyed it. He later wrote about this experience, and came to the obvious conclusion. Language was a tool of the oppressors. By controlling vocabulary, letting no gay terms with positive connotations through, the public can be made to think of being gay as inherently a negative thing.

Anonymous 1d

what language?

Anonymous 18h

do people reclaim any of them? like how queer has been reclaimed and many people reclaim words like f4g or d¥ke?

Anonymous

#1 20h

Arabic

Anonymous

#3 16h

“Queer” was also reclaimed!

Anonymous

#2 14h

I love this, but in I don't think it's the same thing in this case. It's just due to culturally strong familia bonds, ignorance, and structuring that entire culture around religion, there was never a chance come up with a term like "gay" or "queer" etc. imo

Anonymous

OP 14h

Well, yeah. All that is intentional, it’s like that because it perpetuates existing power structures. Gay people are a common scapegoat.