captain queero-
If you were at the event I think you would have a better understanding about the issues at stake in the discussion of queer labeling that went on there.
What was contested was not the use of the word queer by self-identified LGBTQ people and allies, but the use of it by the "Warrior" in a derogatory way. Some students brought up that as a homophobic straight person who repeatedly spoke hatefully about LGBTQs and said that all queers are mentally and emotionally unstable, that they are unnatural, and who himself related his usage of the word "queer" to its definition of abnormality, he had no claim to the word and could only use it in a discriminatory and prejudiced way. He also compared "queers" to pedophiles, among other things. His speech was hateful and violent.
Many queers have reclaimed the term as empowering or the most fitting label for their identity, but reject its usage as derogatory. Again, the example used by others, its the difference between a woman self-identifying as a dyke and being called a dyke by a homophobe.
That was the issue.

captain queero-
If you were at the event I think you would have a better understanding about the issues at stake in the discussion of queer labeling that went on there.
What was contested was not the use of the word queer by self-identified LGBTQ people and allies, but the use of it by the "Warrior" in a derogatory way. Some students brought up that as a homophobic straight person who repeatedly spoke hatefully about LGBTQs and said that all queers are mentally and emotionally unstable, that they are unnatural, and who himself related his usage of the word "queer" to its definition of abnormality, he had no claim to the word and could only use it in a discriminatory and prejudiced way. He also compared "queers" to pedophiles, among other things. His speech was hateful and violent.
Many queers have reclaimed the term as empowering or the most fitting label for their identity, but reject its usage as derogatory. Again, the example used by others, its the difference between a woman self-identifying as a dyke and being called a dyke by a homophobe.
That was the issue.