This is their definition of the much-used and controversial word 'queer':
We view queer as the blurring of sexual and gender identities. Queer is the refusal of fixed identities. It is a war on all identity.
So basically, 'queer' means pretty much anything, therefore pretty much nothing.
It's a useful label made out of the same stuff whiteboards are made out of, so you can write anything you like on it with a non-permanent marker, and then change it if you want it to mean something else..
More often than not, our use of the term queer is interchangeable with our use of trans, though that is not necessarily true of the way in which trans-whatever is used.
I find myself 'comparing and contrasting' other campaigns against oppression which turned to violence - the ones I'm familiar with used violence as, if not a last resort, certainly not a first resort, after decades, even centuries of other forms of protest.
The term 'boycott' originated in a peaceful form of protest against extreme oppression and exploitation in 19th century Ireland - levels of oppression and exploitation that I guarantee nobody in BashBack has ever come anywhere near experiencing, and yet they turn enthusiastically to
.. bar fights, outrunning lynch mobs, glamdalization, attacking the homes of heterosexist murderers, outright chaos, alleged lootings, theory discussions, self-defense tips, social gatherings, beat downs, the acquisition of large quantities of pepper spray, and attempts at sexual liberation.
The readiness to turn so quickly to violence and the threats of violence - the punching, the decapitating, the raping with objects, the details of painful deaths - seems to be a disturbing feature of the TRA movement.