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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“ Self pity becomes your oxygen. But you learned to breathe it without a gasp. So, nobody even notices you're hurting. ...more ”
― Paul Monette

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“ dykes were put here to tip the scales! we have a very important job and i wouldn't trade it for the world. give me a choice between breeding, accelerated aging, living with an orangutan, and maid duty for life...or, autonomy, black boots, multiple orgasms, cats instead of kids, people who say what they mean, and nothing stopping me from doing whatever i wanna do...and guess which one i pick? ...more ”
― Diane DiMassa, The Complete Hothead Paisan: Homicidal Lesbian Terrorist

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