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To: desertsolitaire

‘queer’ used to be a great old word to describe something strange or odd or unusual, useful in many contexts.

I don’t know at what point in history it became a synonym for homosexual. (Same with ‘gay’ ).


22 posted on 01/10/2024 12:56:35 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Jamestown1630

The left’s perversion of the English language is part of their war on normies

The Gay Divorcee 1934

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0025164/


69 posted on 01/10/2024 3:43:48 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s ("If you can remember the 60s....you weren't really there")
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To: Jamestown1630

He saw the rainbow and felt quite gay until a queer event took place.


83 posted on 01/10/2024 6:17:29 PM PST by ChessExpert (Required for informed consent: "We have a new, experimental vaccine.")
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To: Jamestown1630

The day normal people allowed LEFTISTS TO CONTROL THE LANGUAGE!


85 posted on 01/10/2024 7:15:57 PM PST by 5th MEB (1)
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