Is Poverty Queer?

While there are many attempts to investigate the issue of who/what is queer, we tend to overlook the similarly important task of ours to look into the issue of who calls it (whatever) queer. The term, "queer," used to be a derogatory one, mostly uttered by homophobic/transphobic individuals and groups to name and label sexually deviant people. But now, isn't it us ourselves who have begun to feel so comfortable and knowledgeable around the term that we tend to assume the right to define "queer" and call others (people, cultures, etc.) "queer"? In order to acknowledge and reveal such senses of privilege within us, this paper will attempt to illuminate how the boundary between queerness and unqueerness has been shaped according to the modern western middle-class values.