queer

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Queer [ 'kwɪə (ɹ) ] is a foreign word from the English language and, as an adjective, describes things, actions or people who deviate from social cis - heteronormativity through or as an expression of a sexual or gender identity . Originally it usually expressed a negative attitude towards the deviation or the deviator ( connotation ).

Reassessment

The word was used in the English- speaking world - just like the word gay in German - as a swear word, with which primarily gays, but also others who deviate from the heteronormative rules, were referred to. In the early 1950s, William S. Burroughs wrote an autobiographical novel entitled Queer , which was not published until 1985. In the course of the 1980s and 1990s, especially in the wake of the activism of the Act-Up movement during the AIDS crisis, those named succeeded in subjecting the word to a re-evaluation (English reclaiming ) in public discourse , politically positive occupy and use it as a so-called Geusen word . However, the word remains controversial in the English-speaking world and individual opinions are often polarized.

Queer today stands for the entire movement as well as for the individual people belonging to it. It is a kind of collecting basin in which - depending on the self- testimony - besides gays , lesbians , bisexuals , intersexuals , transgender people , pansexuals , asexuals and BDSMers , heterosexual people who practice polyamory and many more can also be found. A special feature of queer compared to identities such as lesbian or gay is that the emphasis is on one's own gender role , gender identity and way of life, which deviates from heteronormativity , while a possible partner plays a lesser role.

The conviction that the assumed compulsion to heteronormativity should be dissolved and that people should be allowed to live their lives in peace with different ideas, sexual identities and gender identities has a binding effect . Parts of the queer movement are therefore strongly linked to postmodern feminism (originating primarily in the USA), in which the ideal of separating these identities from gender plays an important role. The term queer feminism is often used in this context.

Politics and theory

According to the meaning of the verb to queer (similar to to interfere ), which means something like "disturb" or - more figuratively speaking - "get in the way", attempts are made in daily life and in political actions as well as on a theoretical level, to break through the restrictive discourses of society and to oppose the division into “normal” and “abnormal” forms of life and desire.

media

In the United States , Bravo TV broadcast an entertainment program called Queer Eye for the Straight Guy until October 2007 (meaning "The slightly different [or] gay view"). On the show, gay people tried to remodel the homes, living quarters, clothing and appearance of other people to their own advantage. Since 2018 there has been a new edition of Netflix with other experts under the title Queer Eye . Also queer on behalf the British series is Queer as Folk as well as their better-known eponymous US-Canadian remake .

In Germany from 1998 to 2002 there was "Queer" as a national gay and lesbian monthly newspaper. After the Cologne company went bankrupt, some employees founded the new portal "Queer.de", a mixture of magazine and news portal.

The rbb has been showing homosexual films every year since 2018 in a program series called rbb QUEER .

Ballroom dancing

In order to give the LGBT community a home in tango , the " Queer Tango Movement" was born. Heterosexual tango fans who want to dance independently of conventional gender roles are also referred to as queer tangueras and queer tangueros .

Sports

Since 1997 there has been a loose association in Berlin of rowing enthusiasts “lesbians, gays, bisexuals, trans *, transsexuals, inter * and queer people” who are members of two traditional rowing clubs and can therefore use the equipment there. Most currently belong to the Sportclub Berlin-Grünau e. V. at.

literature

  • David A. Gerstner (Ed.): Routledge International Encyclopedia of Queer Culture. Paperback edition. Routledge, London 2006
  • Bruce Bawer (Ed.): Beyond Queer. Challenging Gay Left Orthodoxy. Free Press, New York 1996, ISBN 0-684-82766-2 (English. The book is a collection of essays criticizing the queer movement.)
  • Anna Babka, Susanne Hochreiter (Ed.): Queer Reading in Philologies. Models and Applications. Vienna University Press at V&R unipress, Vienna 2008.
  • Anke Engel: Verqueere's desire. In: Sabine Hark (ed.): Limits of lesbian identities. Querverlag, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-89656-012-3 , pp. 73-95.
  • Annamarie Jagose : Queer Theory. An introduction. Querverlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89656-062-X . (In the book, the author gives a comprehensive introduction to queer theory.)
  • Andreas Kraß (Ed.): Thinking Queer - Against the Order of Sexuality (Queer Studies). Edition Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-518-12248-7 .
  • Melanie Groß, Gabriele Winker (ed.): Queer / Feminist criticism of neoliberal conditions. Unrast, Münster 2007, ISBN 978-3-89771-302-4 .
  • Detlef Georgia Schulze: De-constructive or just destructive? An interim political assessment after 15 years of queer lesbianism. In: Gabriele Dennert et al. (Ed.): Stay in motion. 100 years of lesbian politics, culture and history. Querverlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-89656-148-0 , pp. 322-325.
  • Heinz-Jürgen Voss , Salih Alexander Wolter: Queer and (anti) capitalism. Butterfly, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 3-89657-061-7 .
  • Ján Demčišák: Queer as theory and reception aesthetic approach. In: Ján Demčišák: Queer Reading from Brecht's early work. Tectum, Marburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-8288-2995-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Daniel Stein: Burroughs, William S. - The novel . In: Kindlers Literature Lexicon in 18 volumes, 3rd, completely revised edition 2009 . (Retrieved from the Bücherhallen Hamburg on July 21, 2019). Translated into German by Carl Weissner , the novel was published under the title Homo in 1994 at Zweiausendeins , Frankfurt am Main.
  2. ^ 'Queer' in the Oxford English Dictionary
  3. ↑ to interfere with meaning "to disturb someone / something". According to PONS-Verlag: Lexiface professional. German English. English German. Klett, Stuttgart 2001 [CD-ROM].
  4. ↑ rbb QUEER: On July 19th, the gay and lesbian film series with "God's Own Country" starts on rbb television . In: rbb television . July 19, 2018. Retrieved May 7, 2020.
  5. ↑ Queerschlag.de , accessed on November 4, 2019