Reclaiming a former slur from its history of hate: Is it OK to use the word queer?

Gordon Sauer was waiting for his mom outside a supermarket when eight words cut through the air like daggers into his 11-year-old heart.  

Hey kid in the Chrysler, you are queer.

“I thought, oh God, please make there be another Chrysler,” said Sauer, now 70.