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

Daggerbound (Swordheart, #2)
Meet Me in the Garden
Stay Buried
She Haunts Me Still
Immortal Game
Death Card
The Burn Line
Unprecedented Times
The Halls of the Dead
The Minimalist
The Divine Gardener's Handbook: Or What To Do If Your Girlfriend Accidentally Turns Off the Sun
Bridget & Gabe Are Not Okay
The Blue Moon Café & 24-Hour Occult Emporium
The Salt King
For the Love of the Quest: A Novel
Fruit Fly
We Used to Live Here
A Trade of Blood (Ana and Din Mysteries, #3)
Blue Sisters
A Good Person
Villa Coco
Legends & Lattes (Legends & Lattes, #1)
Somewhere Beyond the Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #2)
Cleopatra and Frankenstein
The Tainted Cup (Ana and Din Mysteries, #1)
The Lamb
Platform Decay (The Murderbot Diaries, #8)
Razorblade Tears
A Drop of Corruption (Ana and Din Mysteries, #2)
The Summer Hikaru Died, Vol. 1
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627 books — 1,425 voters
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Red, White & Royal Blue (Red, White & Royal Blue, #1)
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
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)
Giovanni’s Room
Heartstopper: Volume Three (Heartstopper, #3)
They Both Die at the End (They Both Die at the End, #1)
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