Tertulia and Queer

Question

I entered these two words in the SpanishDict dictionary as well as the RAE without getting results. There is good context for tertulia but not for queer. Both words were used on the site of NotiCuento which is for people interested in literature in Spanish.

Aclaramos, por tanto, que Taller30 es sólo UNO de 21 foros y talleres que tenemos en Ciudad Seva. Tenemos cinco talleres de cuento, más talleres de novela y poesía. También tenemos foros sobre cuento, novela, literatura infantil, cine, cómic y manga. Además, tenemos foros de noticias culturales y tertulias.

In a list of their Talleres y Tertulias one says

Taller Queer

Taller virtual de cuento queer

What do these words mean?

Many thanks for your ideas.

Answer 1

Taller Queer, alude a grupos de trabajo en el que sus integrantes sustentan la filosofía Queer, doctrina basada en que el género de las personas es construido socialmente, en lugar de estar determinado biológicamente.

Answer 2

Tertulia is an old fashioned forum/ gathering/ conversation over a specific topic of interest. We have a Spanish speaking housing community at my university, and we call the chat groups "Tertulias".

That's helpful, thank you, Sonja! - Sabor, Jul 28, 2011

Answer 3

Tertulia

Queer I believe is in English, perhaps in the "gay" sense of the word.

Thanks Gintar! - Sabor, Jul 27, 2011

Answer 4

Old northern English phrase: There's nowt so queer as folk.

In the UK it was once used as a derisory term for homosexuals. The fundamental meaning of the word was "odd" unusual "wrong" but began to be used as anti homosexual. Like other words such as "punk", the "victims" homosexual people, re-adopted or better, re-appropriated the word as something to be proud of.

. Once established within such communities the term began to rapidly gain ground and take on a mainstream aura. Academics now refer to "Queer" genres in literature, indeed in the arts in general.

I just found this Wiki link link text

Taller virtual de cuento queer

I reckon taller will be in this instance equivalent to "workshop" in the way artists combined in say, New York to have a group of like-minded practitioners. so the cuento queer will be the queer lifestyle, the account the way of being.... i think

That's a great link, very informative. Thanks, Birdland! - Sabor, Jul 28, 2011

I love your avatar is that you on your way to the shops? :-) - lagartijaverde, Jul 28, 2011

Answer 5

Queer is not a Spanish word, it is used on the web, by some magazines and blogs in Spanish for gay.

Queer is used in England for gay .

Thanks Heidita - Sabor, Jul 28, 2011

Answer 6

La Teoría queer es una hipótesis sobre el género que afirma que la orientación sexual y la identidad sexual o de género de las personas son el resultado de una construcción social y que, por lo tanto, no existen papeles sexuales esenciales o biológicamente inscritos en la naturaleza humana, sino formas socialmente variables de desempeñar uno o varios papeles sexuales.

What a great, instructive post, Q. Thank you - Sabor, Jul 28, 2011

Answer 7

I entered these two words in the SpanishDict dictionary as well as the RAE without getting results.

This is from RAE:

tertulia.

(De or. inc.) . 1. f. Reunión de personas que se juntan habitualmente para conversar o recrearse.

1. f. En los antiguos teatros de España, corredor en la parte más alta.

2. f. En los cafés, lugar destinado a mesas de juegos de billar, cartas, dominó, etc.

3. f. Arg. y Ur. luneta (? asiento de teatro).

Thank you. The places we go that are physically distant, even if very close, still seem categorically different to me from places we go online. I did not recognize this definition as one that pertained to my word. (But I do now :) - Sabor, Jul 28, 2011