A History on Queers

(I had a student who would not stop using the word "queer" as a derogative term for other boys. So I asked him to write me a history on the usage of the word as a slur for gay men.)

History on Queers

One day in the 1950's the word queer was used for, or to be weird, unusual, homo, and bisexual. A man named Quincy Williams. When he heard of a man that was a drag queen so he mixed the word drag queen and gay and mixed to named queer.

Then in the 1970's they start using it alot for many reasons just to make people feel bad. So they can be out of place or don't feel cool. Some people say queer as a white word for gay or faggot.

Queer also means suspicious, or means be suspect. Then in the 1990's people just used it because they was mad or abset for some so they used the word Queer. Like for example, "That is so queer, man."

2000's people stop using it less, the word kinda ran out so the word faded away unil a dude named [student] brought it back in Ms. T's class.