Editing Queer (section)

===Reactions===
Reclamation and use of the term ''queer'' is controversial; several people and organizations, both LGBTQ and non-LGBTQ, object to some or all uses of the word for various reasons.<ref>For example, see Drew Cordes [http://www.bilerico.com/2012/02/new_yorker_magazine_refuses_to_print_the_word_quee.php "New Yorker magazine refuses to use the word queer"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140220113424/http://www.bilerico.com/2012/02/new_yorker_magazine_refuses_to_print_the_word_quee.php |date=2014-02-20 }}. Retrieved 29 January 2014.</ref> Some LGBTQ people dislike the use of ''queer'' as an umbrella term because they associate it with political and social radicalism. Sociologist [[Joshua Gamson]] argues that the controversy about the word also marks a social and political divide in the LGBTQ community between those (including civil-rights activists) who perceive themselves as "normal" and who wish to be seen as ordinary members of society and those who see themselves as separate, confrontational or not part of the ordinary social order.<ref name=Gamson>{{cite journal|last1=Gamson|first1=Joshua|title=Must Identity Movements Self-Destruct? A Queer Dilemma|journal=Social Problems|date=August 1995|volume=42|issue=3|pages=390–407|doi=10.1525/sp.1995.42.3.03x0104z}}</ref> Other LGBTQ people disapprove of reclaiming or using ''queer'' because they consider it offensive, in part due to its continued use as a pejorative.<ref name=WG>Wisegeek, [http://www.wisegeek.org/is-queer-a-derogatory-word.htm "Is Queer a Derogatory Word?"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180618025911/http://www.wisegeek.org/is-queer-a-derogatory-word.htm |date=2018-06-18 }} Retrieved 2 October 2023.</ref> Some LGBTQ people avoid ''queer'' because they perceive it as faddish slang, or alternatively as academic jargon.<ref name="AyoubPaternotte2014">{{cite book|author1=Phillip Ayoub|author2=David Paternotte|title=LGBT Activism and the Making of Europe: A Rainbow Europe?|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7hlHBQAAQBAJ&pg=PT137|date=28 October 2014|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|isbn=978-1-137-39177-3|pages=137–138}}</ref>