I think one of the things bugging me the most lately has to deal with, big shock, issues of being Queer in our society! Just a quick little thing however, since I am a queer person, I can call myself queer! I can say the queer community, i can say i have queer friends. Personally however, I don't think queer as a label should be used by people who are heterosexual/cisgendered. Sorry, but the word has a history of being used derogatorily towards people who are queer. Also realize that there are parts of the community who don't use queer to identify or don't like to use it as a term, I personally use it because it's an easy term. NOW to the point I wanted to talk about!

Allies. Here at DHS our GSA (known here as SAGA) has done a lot of work with ally week and trying to promote being an ally for the Queer community. I'm really not...okay with this? Allies do matter, but they aren't the people who get to make all the decisions and have all the rights to speak for queer people. I really don't like the "we need straight people to help us because there's more of them" mentality that happens often in the queer community regarding allies.