I have a serious question about verbiage.

[Fearless]

8. Being of a younger generation...

I find it most in use when specifically regarding societal norms regarding gender (ie. the full term being "gender-queer", using the word for it's original meaning as "different" or "out of the norm" but in a positive way). Of my peers, it is most frequently used by those who seek to show that they are more gender fluid in regards to gender-normative behavior... That is a male who enjoys to varying degrees stereotypically female things (including but not exclusively sex with other men), or the opposite for females.

It is not used as a pejorative or even necessarily an empowering word. It shares slightly rebellious undertones as the person bucks stereotypical gender expectations.

Of course, that said, it's a label, which means it's a generalization. When it comes down to these identifying words, I always say... defer to the word that the person likes to call themselves. I, for instance, don't label myself as queer. I label myself as gay. It fits, it works, it's comfortable. So, to each their own.