How does the gay community defend "questioning"?

Especially during puberty people can become unsure about their sexuality because they're experiencing mixed attractions or find themselves aroused by things, people, genders they never thought an option. Hence "questioning".

It's not something to defend, it's merely something to include. Regardless of the meaning being "Questioning" or "Queer".

EDIT: I see we've reached a discrepancy towards the meaning of the Q. I've personally been introduced to it as "Questioning" but I guess that too would be able to fall under "Queer" as Jon explained its meaning.

We don't have any choice but to defend it. Have you seen the questions here? Fifty percent of them are "Am I gay or Not?". It may make it sound like a choice but that is a way wrong interpretation. And, we have no choice but to answer their questions to try to put their minds at ease. There's a lot of young angst in this section, and it needs to be dealt with.

Auntie Kookoo

Question mean just that they have not yet come to terms with their sexuality. I know guys that messed around with guys in there teens but are straight. Sexuality is not fluid but you don't wake up one day and say I'm gay or I'm straight.

Q is for queer, and it basically is used as a term to mean "and everybody else." Originally they started adding more letters for asexuals, demisexuals, genderqueer individuals, genderless individuals, bigender, intergender, third gender, etc. It got to be too much, so they shortened it to Q.

That Q isn't for questioning, it stands for queer. There's nothing to defend, folks are homosexual, that's the long and short of it.