Christa B. Hanhardt Among the first lsons stctors teach lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr (LGBT) history class is about the changg fns and of the word queer. Up through the neteenth century the word was primarily ed to mark dividuals nsired odd or outsi social norms. Queer rried particular currency sndal om the
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A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
Many archiv appear to lack material that clu the intifiers Lbian, Gay, Bisexual or Trans, bee the labels did not always exist.
Durg the famo 1895 trial of Osr Wil, a letter om the Marquis of Queensberry tailg his disgt at Wil’s relatnship wh his son Lord Aled Douglas was read aloud urt, which he refers to Wil and other homosexual men of the time as ‘Snob Queers’. However, The Concise New Partridge Dictnary of Slang (1937) not that wasn’t until 1914 that ‘queer – a rogatory adjective meang homosexual’ – was beg ed more monly society (p.
Consirg s evintly offensive and gradg origs many people dislike the term and take issue wh s e as still retas cultural remnants of anti-LGBT or homophobic sentiments.