Even to-day, gays do not think of themselves as queer! Gays are persons like everyone else who is not gay! We all are humans!
Being a gay man, I do not think that I am queer! But one thinks about that that (some) others do, and maybe gay bashing might be from them!
It was only spirit of being oneself that made Ennis and Jack attract to each other as a couple, a loving one!! I see that as that! Does anyone else do?