(Anonymous) 2019-12-28 02:25 pm (UTC)(link)
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I'm a 20-something queer woman and though I don't use f*g or similar myself, a shitton of queer men I know (mostly all cis gay/bi men) do use it, jokingly, to refer to themselves sometimes, especially on twitter or similar, almost as a kind of camp performance. Essentially none of them were alive in the 1980s, and those who were were tiny kids. (I've never really heard the 50-something gay men I know use it, but they're family friends I've also mostly only seen in mixed company and never heard them in full camp splendor, so who knows.) It's not at all uncommon as a camp jesting/almost a reclamation type thing among millennial queer men, in my experience, and I would not raise an eyebrow at a Gen Z queer man describing himself thusly, though obviously code switching, etc. mean it might not be appropriate in a mixed Discord server.