The word ‘Queer’ by definition means something extra-ordinary, something mildly strange and/or out of place. That according to any dictionary is its denotation (1). We all know however that the word has come to mean other things, in fact many people confuse its actual meaning for its most common usage – that of a derogatory term for homosexuals. The word however has over time changed meaning several times, having first been recorded in use in 1508 to mean ‘strange, peculiar, eccentric’ (2) For most of the 20th century however the term has been used to refer to effeminate gay males and others exhibiting untraditional gender behaviour; as an antonym for heteronormativity.