These elements of sexual identity are not “condensed” equally, as some contribute more and less than others.
This is where the beauty of the term queer comes in, as it encompasses a variety of marginalized and status quo defying identities, important as some may argue, because it challenges the standard use of categories that immediately bring comfort and solace to others as the person being categorized can therefore be easily identified. However, the mere mention of the word queer does not immediately indicate who or “what” someone is or may be due to the word’s “open mesh of possibilities, dissonances, lapses and excesses of meaning.” This term becomes even more powerful when it includes other intersection, such as “language, skin, migration, and state” adding more dynamics to an identity (272). However, because the term has such a violent and volatile history considering whom it was used to identify,