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

We Burned So Bright
Honor & Heresy
An Accident of Dragons (Tales of Summer, #1)
Year of the Mer
Fruit Fly: A Novel
Wife Shaped Bodies
The Duke
Morsel
The Witch and the Huntress
A Murder Most Camp
The Bloody and the Damned
American Spirits
Thrall
The Impossible Garden of Clara Thorne
The Beast You Let In
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
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900 books — 978 voters

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120 books — 781 voters
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Heartstopper: Volume One (Heartstopper, #1)
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This Is How You Lose the Time War
One Last Stop
The House in the Cerulean Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #1)
Heartstopper: Volume Two (Heartstopper, #2)
Heartstopper: Volume Three (Heartstopper, #3)
Giovanni’s Room
They Both Die at the End (They Both Die at the End, #1)
Heartstopper: Volume Four (Heartstopper, #4)
Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1)
Cemetery Boys (Cemetery Boys, #1)

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