@sev the segment of folk who've perennially bristled at queer folks using the word 'queer' to describe themselves (or to encapsulate a community which rejects cisnormativity & heteronormativity) have been older cis gay men, disproportionately white, and generally who bore witness to the peak of AIDS in the 1980s & early 1990s. in select locales, this group of gay men advanced a conservation of homonormativity in cis (white) gay districts in major cities going back to, well, the 1970s. not coincidentally, they've long been one of the two segments of the queer community which have never dealt well w/ the existence of folks like queer trans women & enby folk