Queer has become an umbrella term for the LGBT community and been further adopted by anyone who feels that they are in a sexual or gender minority. The word was historically used as pejorative and can be upsetting for some members of the LGBT community. Activists in the 1980s fought to reclaim the word as a deliberately provocative and politically radical alternative to the more assimilative and mainstream branches of the LGBT movement. Since then, the term queer has taken a less militant tone, particularly among younger generations.