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Whether the term is derogatory may depend upon your intention. A person may describe themselves as homosexual, and simultaneously strive to conform themselves to the chaste single life as their Catholic faith would encourage. Such a person could be your son. Would you speak of him as “queer”. Would you confide in a friend - “my son is a queer”?Homosexuals are queer, by definition, and it is the label they use openly as part of the LGBTQIABC etc.