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.
Good point. If the word “queer” is derogatory for some, then it is derogatory for all.
I remember a speaker making an anti-Catholic joke and saying that it was all right because he was Catholic. I did not find his joke to be funny. His excuse made little sense to me. His words were inappropriate, and no one laughed.
Self-deprecating humor is ok, but I don’t know that it applies to groups. It reminds me of Obama “apologizing” for America. He never apologized for the Democratic party. He never apologized for himself. There was something phony about his apologies.
I think we should reject special rules for separate groups. People find ways to justify special rules, but their excuses seldom, if ever, withstand scrutiny.
We need to find common ground. If queers don’t like to be called queer, the first thing they should do is to stop calling themselves queer. That goes for course titles as well.
While we are at it, we might want to consider the “N word.” If it is ok for Blacks to use it, others should be able to use it as well.
It’s just another one of those PC words, like the “n-word,” that only the group that it refers to can use without criticism.