Literature

How Queer Are You? - Bradford Literature Festival

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LGBTQ+ is a constantly evolving movement, and understanding how these umbrella terms have come to encompass the identities within them is becoming increasingly prescient. Historically, and still sometimes today, the word ‘queer’ has been used as a slur, until the 1990s saw a change in meaning to a self-identification as ‘not straight in a traditional sense’. The term was as divisive then as it is now. This event brings together three speakers to consider what it means to identify as queer from