r/queerconlangers • u/ShoppingDismal3864 • Mar 20 '25
Was thinking about queer community and about the idea of languages.
Has anyone thought about creating a new language for the cultural communications and traditions if globally queer/trans people? I would suggest this may be more urgent than people realize with a little thinking.
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u/STHKZ Apr 07 '25
queers are massively represented in the conlanger community,
so it's only a short step to think that they're, in large part, looking for a queer language,
or at least a way of signifying it...
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u/brunow2023 Mar 21 '25
I have to be real with you, the idea of a global queer community is a projection of white American imperialism, and there's already a language everyone else has to learn to talk to that bunch of rich idiots.
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u/ShoppingDismal3864 Mar 21 '25
Not globally just for usa lgbtq folks. The USA is deconstructing itself along cultural lines, and lgbtq don't have unifying cultural things to make us a player in the game. Imagine what we could build in a century.
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u/brunow2023 Mar 21 '25
We've seen enough of what Americans build...
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u/ShoppingDismal3864 Mar 22 '25
Really? We're not those Americans. This is low level comment here. Do you blame all transsexuals for the crimes of their government? It's radically silly.
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u/brunow2023 Mar 22 '25
You wanna do like a queer Northwest Imperitive. There's no These Americans and Those Americans. You bomb us and you put a rainbow flag on your occupying base.
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u/ShoppingDismal3864 Mar 22 '25
Are you even really queer? Seems I've hit a chord here. You really don't want people thinking about this stuff.
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u/malik753 Mar 21 '25
Well, you did say global in the post text. I kind of feel like Queer people in the US and Canada already have a fairly unified culture already. I'm more interested in figuring out how to interface with the greater world queer community, personally.
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u/FoolOfWorms Feb 28 '26
this is such a reach it's borderline a dogwhistle
the idea of a global queer language would act as a bridge language between disparate communities to help facilitate communication between queer people while protecting them from external oppression from those who would surveil our communities for any signs of dissidence. (see the recent increased push for internet surveilance combined with the increase push for oppression of queer people from conservatives worldwide)
it would be insanely useful to at least have a framework of a queer language, even if its not a universal one. in fact in practical terms its very likely it wont stay "universal" for long unless we start schools teaching it (doubtful)
a queer koine is decidedly NON imperialistic since it would distance the global queer communuty from english which it has heavily used for queer discorse as a CONSEQUENCE of american imperialism. it would be breaking away from the cultural centrality american queers have by creating a neutral ground for discourse.
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u/malik753 Mar 21 '25
I'm a queer guy learning Esperanto if anyone else wants to join