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"

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]

The Tainted Cup (Shadow of the Leviathan, #1)

A Drop of Corruption (Shadow of the Leviathan, #2)

Brigands & Breadknives (Legends & Lattes, #2)

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

Semi-Well-Adjusted Despite Literally Everything

System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)

Simply More: A Book for Anyone Who Has Been Told They're Too Much

What Stalks the Deep (Sworn Soldier, #3)

What Feasts at Night (Sworn Soldier, #2)

The Golden Enclaves (The Scholomance, #3)

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]

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]

Warrior Princess Assassin (Braided Fate, #1)

The Court of the Dead (The Nico di Angelo Adventures, #2)

Among the Burning Flowers (The Roots of Chaos, #0.2)

Get Over It, April Evans (Clover Lake, #2)

Can't Spell Treason Without Tea (Tomes & Tea, #1)

Through Gates of Garnet and Gold (Wayward Children, #11)

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Quotes Tagged “Queer”

“ Harrow said, with some difficulty: "I cannot conceive of a universe without you in it." "Yes you can, it's just less great and less hot," said Gideon." "Fuck you, Nav— ...more ”
― Tamsyn Muir, Gideon the Ninth

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“ 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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