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 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]

Brigands & Breadknives (Legends & Lattes, #2)

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

Semi-Well-Adjusted Despite Literally Everything

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

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

What Stalks the Deep (Sworn Soldier, #3)

System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

What Feasts at Night (Sworn Soldier, #2)

The Golden Enclaves (The Scholomance, #3)

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

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

Warrior Princess Assassin (Braided Fate, #1)

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

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

The Book of Blood and Roses (The Callisto Chronicles)

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

The Blighted Stars (The Devoured Worlds, #1)

These Burning Stars (The Kindom Trilogy, #1)

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

Actress of a Certain Age: My Twenty-Year Trail to Overnight Success

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“ But artists aren’t the only marginalized folks controlling real estate. Think about the colonizing role that wealthy white gay men have played in communities of color; they’re often the first group to gentrify poor and working-class neighborhoods. Harlem is a good example. Gays have moved in and driven up rents, as have renegade young white students, who want to be cool and hip. This is colonization, post-colonial-style. After all, the people who are “sent back” to recover the territory are alwa ...more ”
― bell hooks, Homegrown: Engaged Cultural Criticism

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“ Georgette was a hip queer. She (he) didn't try to disguise or conceal it with marriage and mans talk, satisfying her homosexuality with the keeping of a secret scrapbook of pictures of favorite male actors or athletes or by supervising activities of young boys or visiting turkish baths or mens locker rooms, leering sidely while seeking protection behind a carefully guarded guise of virility (fearing that moment at a cocktail party or in a bar when this front may start crumbling from alcohol and ...more ”
― Hubert Selby Jr.

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