Do not “forget the labels.”  There’s a certain crowd of queer guys who — usually in chat rooms or message forums — on automatic pilot tell others to,  “Forget the labels” anytime someone asks about someone’s sexuality.  So the question asked of the person is:  Are you gay, bi or str8?  Seems reasonable to me.

Even if the person were to answer:  I’m into guys (gay), or I’m into guys and girls (bi), or I’m into girls (str8), labels are still implied with all three responses.

The “forget the labels” crowd lecture that, “labels are so 1990s.”  Not really.  The labels — as they call them — have been around long before the 1990s and are still used today, and that’s because labels have served us well and they continue to do so for those who have the intelligence to use them. The “labels” leave nothing in doubt.

There’s a reason our society has these descriptors or “labels” as they call them and that’s because they do indeed clarify one’s sexuality for us and they leave no doubt as to one’s sexuality.

I’m not sure what the “Forget the labels” crowd has as their agenda.  But I suspect they are the same people who are part of the alphabet cult and who obediently use that increasingly long train of alphabet letters with all those plus signs, “LGBTQ(RSTUVWXYZABCDEFGHIJK)++++++++++” rubbish.  That’s another “label.”  Have they never considered that all those fucking letters — do they intend to go through the entire alphabet several times since there are already two Qs in the official version? — are a “label” for the words queer or gay (take your pick).  I suspect they mindlessly type or say (and stumble over as I hear talking heads in the corporate media doing) all that alphabet nonsense and think nothing of it, not realising that too is a “label.”

When will people have the intelligence to say or write the word Queer rather than to type or say all of those ludicrous letters?  (Answer:  Probably not within my life time).  By the way, The official version is there.