Summary:
Queer is one of the few identities that categorizes both gender and sexuality, as Garbaick argues. She explains that it is rejecting gender identities and sexual orientation in order to show a persons identify, or lack there of.
Response:
This chapter seemed to teach me the most so far from this book. I had never put much thought into the concept of a “queer” and they had always just been a miscellaneous LGBT category in my mind. The idea of queer seems to symbolize the entire theory of not having sexuality and gender so closely tied to each other. I like that the idea of queer is to show the concept of gender identities being unnecessary and useless. Clearly queers are still able to function in society and social settings without identifying themselves in a specific category so it shows that all of the ideas behind “masculine” and “feminine” traits are flawed. It also discussed that while some transponders may identify as a clear gender others may identify as queer. I think that’s powerful in the sense that although transponders often go through extensive surgery they are still able to step back from society and not identify strongly with any one gender/sexual orientation.
Claire 
I agree with you on the fact that this chapter helped to bring a lot of important information out that I have never even heard anything about. I never knew that the LGBT community and queer represented such different things (labeling yourself and not labeling yourself). The simplicity of your summary made it easy to read and while also covering the main topic of this chapter.
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