Gary Dickenson requests a word change for "queers." It does cary negative
connotations, but whole departments who feature such studies call the
literature "queer literature." At the national meeting at the Conference on
College Communication and Composition (nationally known as the 4 C's) some
consideration was given as to whether the word queer should be used in the
title of the group. Queer is not considered a perjorative term in the US. It's
become an acceptable term. I have more than once heard my gay collegues refer
to their literature as "queer literature."
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