Normalize “Queers”

On 3/26/2022, Spiked — a British magazine — published an article titled “The rise of the heterosexual ‘queer.’” The article in question was written by Gareth Roberts, a homosexual man and writer for Doctor Who who has previously gotten into controversy for making transphobic statements. According to Roberts:

For now we find ourselves in an epoch of the West when homosexuality has become so popular among a certain section of heterosexuals that they are desperate to join in, only without any of the icky matching-genitalia sex stuff. For now they can be queer!

Personally, I think that is a sign of great progress regarding how society sees LGBT people — I also don’t believe that’s actually happening, but we’re going one issue at a time — but that’s not how Roberts sees it. According to him, this has caused millions of straight people to walk around, acting like the stereotypes of homosexuals society once shunned:

The most galling thing about these freshly minted queer heterosexuals is that they’re basing their personas on lazy lies and ancient jokes. They wear eyeliner, they swish about, they hang around in dark corners committing unspeakable acts, they’re so tragic and complex and interesting!

Not eyeliner, anything but eyeliner! Okay, to be serious, this is incredibly stupid. At this point, I am roughly half way through Roberts’s…