Alice Weidel is right. I’ve never typed that phrase before – but in this case it fits. In September 2023, the AfD frontwoman made it clear in the ARD summer interview: “I am not queer, but I am married to a woman I have known for 20 years.” And that's true. Because queer is a positive self-description of people who are not heterosexual and/or cis sexual, i.e. live in the sex that was assigned to them after birth.

This is definitely not true of Weidel; there is no sense of a positive lesbian self-image in the 44-year-old. On the contrary, she is a populist, deeply right-wing conservative woman who lives with another woman and raises children – but has little in common with the rest of the queer community. It also makes no secret of this in the further course of the summer interview. She rails against trans people, speaks of “gender quark” and wants to protect children from a “stupid trans-pop culture.”

Whatever man, will they ever stop talking about theythemselves?