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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

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We Used to Live Here
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
Blue Sisters
The Three Lives of Cate Kay
Legends & Lattes (Legends & Lattes, #1)
Cleopatra and Frankenstein
The Emperor of Gladness
Razorblade Tears
All the Way to the River
The Tainted Cup (Shadow of the Leviathan, #1)
What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #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 Lamb
Brigands & Breadknives (Legends & Lattes, #2)
The Guncle (The Guncle, #1)
Rejection
A Family Matter
Simply More: A Book for Anyone Who Has Been Told They're Too Much
Semi-Well-Adjusted Despite Literally Everything
The Unworthy
The Summer Hikaru Died, Vol. 1
Our Infinite Fates
The Sun and the Star (The Nico di Angelo Adventures, #1)
A Drop of Corruption (Shadow of the Leviathan, #2)
Our Wives Under the Sea
La mala costumbre
Penance
Girl Dinner
Automatic Noodle
Is This a Cry for Help?
What Stalks the Deep (Sworn Soldier, #3)
System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)
Wayward Girls
The Summer War
What Feasts at Night (Sworn Soldier, #2)
Evenings and Weekends
The Golden Enclaves (The Scholomance, #3)
Margin of Error
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)
Graveyard Shift
Rule of Wolves (King of Scars, #2)
The Starving Saints
Hazelthorn
Of Monsters and Mainframes
You Weren't Meant to Be Human
Chosen Family
Crux
Still Life
Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting
Earth
Translation State
To the Moon and Back
The Court of the Dead (The Nico di Angelo Adventures, #2)
Clear
Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert
Some Desperate Glory
Trois
Just Watch Me
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 Knight and the Butcherbird
The Celebrants
Like a Power Play
Green Dot
The Atlas Paradox (The Atlas, #2)
Open Throat
We Love You, Bunny (Bunny, #2)
Can't Spell Treason Without Tea (Tomes & Tea, #1)
Fundamentally
Palaver
The Guncle Abroad (The Guncle, #2)
光が死んだ夏 2 [Hikaru ga Shinda Natsu 2]
The Book of Blood and Roses (The Callisto Chronicles)
Well, Actually
Among the Burning Flowers (The Roots of Chaos, #0.2)
House of Hollow
The Blighted Stars (The Devoured Worlds, #1)
Silvercloak (The Silvercloak Saga, #1)
The Deep Sky
Seduction Theory
These Burning Stars (The Kindom Trilogy, #1)
Missing Sam
Lucky Day
Mongrel
Exordia
The Folded Sky (White Space, #3)
It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
Cascade Failure (Ambit's Run, #1)
Slow Gods
Thirst Trap
Nightcrawling
Get Over It, April Evans (Clover Lake, #2)
Blood on Her Tongue
The Summer Hikaru Died, Vol. 3
You, Again
Learning Curves
Chain of Thorns (The Last Hours, #3)
Actress of a Certain Age: My Twenty-Year Trail to Overnight Success
When She Flies

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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
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Hubert Selby Jr.
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
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