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)

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

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

Brigands & Breadknives (Legends & Lattes, #2)

Semi-Well-Adjusted Despite Literally Everything

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

What Stalks the Deep (Sworn Soldier, #3)

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

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]

Warrior Princess Assassin (Braided Fate, #1)

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]

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

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

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

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

How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying (Dark Lord Davi, #1)

Four Ruined Realms (The Broken Blades, #2)

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

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Quotes Tagged “Queer”

“ 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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“ Gay kids aren’t a “plot point” that you can play with. Gay kids are real, actual kids, teenagers, growing up into awesome adults, and they don’t have the books they need to reflect that. Growing up, my nose was constantly stuck in a book. Growing up as a lesbian, I was told over and over and over by the lack of gayness in said books that I did not exist. That I wasn’t important enough to tell stories about. That I was invisible. Why are we telling our kids this? Why are we telling them that they ...more ”
― Sarah Diemer

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