 Upon both the release of Garbage and the release of " Queer " as a single , the song received a positive reception from music journalists . Leo Finlay , in a Music Week article highlighting the campaign for the debut album 's release wrote , " ' Queer ' is eerily reminiscent of Magazine 's stranger moments " . A reviewer for NME wrote that the single was " an ode to recognising and tolerating those mis @-@ shapen ones among us " , and when reviewing the album , their own Shannon O 'Connell wrote , " there is a bit of Pat Benatar in [ this songs ] back @-@ alley swagger " . A reviewer for VOX described " Queer " as " Voice of the Beehive roughing up L7 " , Jackie Hinden of Hot Press wrote that the song was " a slinky work @-@ out against a restrained work @-@ to @-@ rule industrial backing " , and the publication later made it their Single of the Fortnight , describing it as " Almost indecently brilliant . There 's an intelligence at work here in the lyrics and in the music which makes " Queer " a unique proposition , and Garbage utterly indispensable " . A writer for Melody Maker wrote that " Queer " was " sleek , cultivated perversion ... sinister and menacing " , while Raw 's review described it as " brilliant , Seductive and slow @-@ burning " , and the single reviewer for NME considered that Manson 's performance " elevates a sing @-@ song shuffle into a lullaby to sexual non @-@ conformity " . Rolling Stone described the song as a " more roundly shaped tune orchestrated with this same love of junk and command of finesse . " Kerrang ! rated " Queer " as their Single of the Week , stating " an incredible knee @-@ trembling fuck tune ... the dirtiest pop tune you 'll hear all year . [ You 'll be ] sucked into dark satin sexiness and you 'll never want to leave . Gorgeously decadent and utterly fabulous " ; 
