- published: 21 Nov 2013
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Queer is an umbrella term for sexual minorities that are not heterosexual, heteronormative, or gender-binary. In the context of Western identity politics the term also acts as a label setting queer-identifying people apart from discourse, ideologies, and lifestyles that typify mainstream LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transsexual) communities as being oppressive or assimilationist.
This term is controversial because it was reappropriated only two decades ago from its use as an anti-gay epithet. Furthermore, some LGBT people disapprove of using queer as a catch-all because they consider it offensive, derisive or self-deprecating given its continuous use as a form of hate speech. Other LGBT people may avoid queer because they associate it with political radicalism, or simply because they perceive it as the faddish slang of a "younger generation."
Since its emergence in the English language in the 16th century (related to the German quer, meaning "across, at right angle, diagonally or transverse"), queer has generally meant "strange", "unusual", or "out of alignment". It might refer to something suspicious or "not quite right", or to a person with mild derangement or who exhibits socially inappropriate behaviour. The expression "in Queer Street" was used in the UK as of the 1811 edition of Francis Grose's A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue for someone in financial trouble.
Actors: Tim King (producer), Andrew Ceperley (editor), Tim King (director), Hal Sparks (actor), Sharon Gless (actress), Peter Paige (actor), Thea Gill (actress), Ant (actor), Mariano Martínez (actor), Robert Gant (actor), Scott Lowell (actor), Michelle Clunie (actress), Ron Cowen (actor), Daniel Lipman (actor), Doug Gauthier (miscellaneous crew),
Genres: Documentary,allen / cox / gray
One is for the decent times
And two is for the same
Well number three is for the big fat sinners
And four is heaven's gate
There's a soul invasion here
The soul invasion is mine
Love is in a vacant tree
I'm going to pick and choose what's mine
There's a show inside of heaven's gate
And the sinners are taking a bath
Heaven is a season and the season is time
I'm going to sit right back
Ha ha ha
Ha ha ha
With you by my side
I hardly know I speak the truth
I'm an easy equation
As I step inside of heaven's gate
Here beside heaven's fountains
I'm washing my hands with time
I'm washing my legs with truth
I step inside of heaven's gate
I walk inside of heaven's gate
I run inside of heaven's gate
Ha ha ha
[x4]
Keyboards: Mark Cox, Andrew Gray
Bass: Leslie Langston
Voices: Michael Allen, Michelle Levi
Drums: Andrew Gray, Rew
Programming: Rew, Andrew Gray
Engineered: John Madden
Produced: Drostan Madden, T.W.P.