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**Radqueer** (short for **radical queer**) is a fringe movement and ideology((
[[https://web.archive.org/web/20240402045925/https://radqueeredu.carrd.co/#meaning|archive.today link]]
)) that seeks to radically redefine/reconceptualize queerness and/or frameworks of [[wp>victimization]] and [[wp>social oppression]].

Generally, the Radqueer movement advocates for:

  * social acceptance and/or [[wp>normalization (sociology)|normalization]] of [[paraphilia|paraphilic]] sexual behavior;
  * social acceptance and validation of the classification system/framework of [[transidentities]]; and
  * broadly speaking, social acceptance and/or validation of behavior widely considered pathological, harmful (to self and others), or dangerous, mainly when such behavior is thought to originate from mental abnormality or [[wp>neurodivergence]].

Of those in the [[wp>LGBTQ+ community]] that are aware of the Radqueer movement, the general opinion seems to be that it is not a part of the community or [[wp>LGBTQ+ history]].(([[https://lgbtqia.wiki/wiki/Radqueer|lgbtqia.wiki]]))

==== History ====

The term "Radqueer", its history, and its ideological foundations were first outlined by Tumblr user "foucault-divine-mephisto", on November 14th, 2021:

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The

"original" Radqueer flag}}]

>'RadQueer' (radical queer) was created in response to the puritanism, hypocrisy and general rejection in the Queer community regarding a range of marginalized and stigmatized Queersexualities (paraphilias), internal identities (transage, transabled, transill/transnoso, transpecies, alterhumans/transnonhuman etc) and behaviours (social, sexual eccentricity etc).\\ Compared to the average queer, RadQueers hold a much more radical position on this topic believing that these identities are also part of the Queer community due to their Queer (=strange, non-normative) nature.\\ [...] If you have any sexual/romantic interest, internal identity and possibly behaviour, that is out of the norm, stigmatised or considered taboo, feel free to label yourself as ’Queer’. We need to gather and pushback against the assimilationist, sanitising and puritanical rhetorics spreading across the Queer community.((
[[https://archive.today/2021.11.16-032843/https://foucault-divine-mephisto.tumblr.com/post/667870981500649472/radqueer|archive.today link]]
))

After it was discovered that "foucault-divine-mephisto" was "pro-contact for harmful paraphilias",((
"Pro-" and "anti-contact" are labels used within the community to denote an individual's belief that paraphilic sexual desires should or should not be realized. For example, a "pro-contact MAP" may advocate for the freedom of adults to engage in sexual interactions ("contact") with minors.
)) the term was "re-coined" by Tumblr user "equiradqueer", with the same core definition but a different flag:

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The

"new" Radqueer flag}}]

>Flag for queers that love all sorts of identitys. Even “problematic” ones like transable,trace, transage, ect.\\ + supporting paraphilas.\\ Basically all good faith identitys. Even the ones the “inclusionists” won’t touch((
[[https://archive.today/2022.05.17-002338/https://equiradqueer.tumblr.com/post/684372163641458688/new-radinclusive-radqueer-flag-flag-for-queers|archive.today link]]
))

