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"

The Last King of Faerie (The Wicked Powers, #1)

A Trade of Blood (Ana and Din Mysteries, #3)

The Tainted Cup (Ana and Din Mysteries, #1)

A Drop of Corruption (Ana and Din Mysteries, #2)

Somewhere Beyond the Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #2)

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]

What Stalks the Deep (Sworn Soldier, #3)

What Feasts at Night (Sworn Soldier, #2)

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]

The Golden Enclaves (The Scholomance, #3)

Brigands & Breadknives (Legends & Lattes, #2)

気になってる人が男じゃなかった Vol. 4 [Ki ni Natteru Hito ga Otoko Janakatta, Vol. 4]

Warrior Princess Assassin (Braided Fate, #1)

The Sun and the Star (The Nico di Angelo Adventures, #1)

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]

Take a Chance, Sasha Sinclair (Clover Lake, #3)

Tales from the Territory (Legends & Lattes)

Field Guide for the Formerly Villainous (Everyday Magic, #1)

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Quotes Tagged “Queer”

“ I hate that word. Straight. At the very least, those of us who are nonstraight should get called curvy. Or scenic. Actually, I like that: 'Do you think she's straight?' 'Oh no. She's scenic ...more ”
― Nina LaCour, You Know Me Well

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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 ”
― bell hooks

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