Quote Originally Posted by Jim Kelly View Post
From my understanding, while "gay" and "queer" both started out as pejorative terms for the same thing, when used in a positive context now they are distinctly different. Someone who is gay is definitely gay--not straight, not bi. Someone who is queer can be gay, bi, straight, trans or a whole range of other things. It's a way to have a label without putting someone into a box and saying they are this and only this. So Wonder Woman is queer--of course, she is. I would go so far as to say every super-hero is queer, because they are outside the box. Maybe some people object to queer being used for straight folks--but there are a lot of folks who are straight yet have out of the ordinary relationships. Such as Dr. Marston, who was queer the way I see it.
If "queer" can mean anything doesn't it actually mean nothing? No offense, but as someone who studies different cultures, such an ill-defined term (as you've outlined it) seems frankly useless and counterproductive.