Most Read This Week In Queer

Queer is an umbrella term for sexual and gender minorities that are not heterosexual or cisgender. Originally meaning "strange" or "peculiar", queer came to be deployed pejoratively against those with same-sex desires or relationships in the late-19th century. Beginning in the late-1980s, queer scholars and activists began to reclaim the word to establish community and assert a politicized identity distinct from the gay political identity. Queer identitites may be adopted by those who reject traditional gender identities and seek a broader, less conformist, and deliberately ambiguous alternati ...more

Most Read This Week Tagged "Queer"

We Used to Live Here
Blue Sisters
Somewhere Beyond the Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #2)
The Three Lives of Cate Kay
Legends & Lattes (Legends & Lattes, #1)
A Good Person
Cleopatra and Frankenstein
Razorblade Tears
Wayward Girls
The Emperor of Gladness
The Tainted Cup (Shadow of the Leviathan, #1)
気になってる人が男じゃなかった Vol. 1 [Ki ni Natteru Hito ga Otoko Janakatta, Vol. 1]
The Summer Hikaru Died, Vol. 1
The Lamb
A Family Matter
Rejection
Frozen by Stardust (Beasts of the Briar, #5)
All the Way to the River
The Sun and the Star (The Nico di Angelo Adventures, #1)
The Guncle (The Guncle, #1)
A Drop of Corruption (Shadow of the Leviathan, #2)
Whidbey
Brigands & Breadknives (Legends & Lattes, #2)
The Unworthy
Nothing Tastes as Good
Our Wives Under the Sea
Our Infinite Fates
Automatic Noodle
Devout: Losing My Faith to Find Myself
What Stalks the Deep (Sworn Soldier, #3)
Evenings and Weekends
Rule of Wolves (King of Scars, #2)
What Feasts at Night (Sworn Soldier, #2)
Semi-Well-Adjusted Despite Literally Everything
The Golden Enclaves (The Scholomance, #3)
La mala costumbre
Burn Down Master's House
Almost Life
Girl Dinner
Murder Bimbo
The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)
Fundamentally
Simply More: A Book for Anyone Who Has Been Told They're Too Much
Graveyard Shift
Still Life
Hazelthorn
光が死んだ夏 2 [Hikaru ga Shinda Natsu 2]
The Summer War
The Cure for Drowning
Warrior Princess Assassin (Braided Fate, #1)
Well, Actually
Clear
John of John
光が死んだ夏 7 [Hikaru ga Shinda Natsu 7]
The Starving Saints
気になってる人が男じゃなかった Vol. 2 [Ki ni Natteru Hito ga Otoko Janakatta, Vol. 2]
Trois
Missing Sam
Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting
Open Throat
Silvercloak (The Silvercloak Saga, #1)
Just Watch Me
The Red Winter
Toe to Toe
What I Know About You
Nowhere
How to Lose a Goblin in Ten Days
The Guncle Abroad (The Guncle, #2)
Fruit Fly: A Novel
Among the Burning Flowers (The Roots of Chaos, #0.2)
Penance
The Summer Hikaru Died, Vol. 3
We Love You, Bunny (Bunny, #2)
Lucky Day
Accidentally on Purpose
気になってる人が男じゃなかった Vol. 3 [Ki ni Natteru Hito ga Otoko Janakatta, Vol. 3]
A Long and Speaking Silence (The Singing Hills Cycle, #7)
Gunk
光が死んだ夏 5 [Hikaru ga Shinda Natsu 5]
Olga Dies Dreaming
光が死んだ夏 4 [Hikaru ga Shinda Natsu 4]
The Empusium
Earth
Heap Earth Upon It
Can't Spell Treason Without Tea (Tomes & Tea, #1)
The Shards
Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert
Get Over It, April Evans (Clover Lake, #2)
Of Monsters and Mainframes
Evil Genius
Kingfisher
How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying (Dark Lord Davi, #1)
Nobody's Baby (Dorothy Gentleman, #2)
The Celebrants
Clara & the Devil, Volume 1 (Clara & the Devil, #1)
House of Hollow
The Lost Daughter of Sparta
A Sea Change
Blood on Her Tongue
The Court of the Dead (The Nico di Angelo Adventures, #2)

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Queer' not as being about who you're having sex with (that can be a dimension of it); but 'queer' as being about the self that is at odds with everything around it and that has to invent and create and find a place to speak and to thrive and to live. ...more
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if Moses had seen the way my friend’s face blushes when he’s drunk, and his beautiful curls and wonderful hands, he would not have written in his Torah: do not lie with a man
Judah Alharizi, The Book of Tahkemoni: Jewish Tales from Medieval Spain

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