Queer

While the classic definition of queer as stated by dictionary.com is "strange or odd from a conventional viewpoint", this is no longer the way the word is used in modern context. More recently, queer has be adapted as an "umbrella" term from the LGBTIQ community. The UC Berkeley Gender Equity and LGBT Resource Center defines queer as "An umbrella term to refer to all LGBTIQ people; a political statement, as well as a sexual orientation, which advocates breaking binary thinking and seeing both sexual orientation and gender identity as potentially fluid". This modern day, working definition is affirmed by the BGSU Queer Glossary, "queer is a term which has been reclaimed by members of the gay, lesbian. bisexual, and transgender communities to refer to people who transgress culturally imposed norms of heterosexuality and gender traditionalism. Queer might be broadly defined as resistance to regimes of the “normal.”". Based on the UC Berkely and the BGSU definitions, one can define queer as an all-encompassing term for sexual minorities that are not heteronormative and/or do not follow the gender-binary.