[gundog]

’... to use derogatory language like "Queer" in my presence.'

LGBT Q

[Steely Tom]

’... to use derogatory language like "Queer" in my presence.'

A quick google search turns up:

Wesleyan University: Queer Studies program, a Queer Studies Research Collective, and the following course: Social Norms / Social Power: Queer Readings of "Difference" in America, Queer Theories: Junior Colloquium, Global Queer Studies, Queer of Color Critique, Queer/Anthropology: Ethnographic Approaches to Queer Studies, Queering the Dancing Body, Queer Russia, and Revolution Girl-Style Now: Queer Performance Strategies.

Similarly-named programs and classes exist at many other colleges and universities in the United States and elsewhere.

[desertsolitaire]

I never realized the word “Queer’ was derogatory. I hear it used by homosexuals to describe themselves and others. Perhaps it was the intonation or context? I am sorry his son died at a too young age and that remarks were made that were painful to him. This is a situation with many families that is rife for possibility of conflict and emotional pain. It is possible to be polite and not speak ill of the dead, even if unintentionally.