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

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Fabulous Bodies
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A Fate Worse than Drowning
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The Dragon Has Some Complaints
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Better Than Revenge
Misery's Wife
The Felicity Complex
Where Lost Girls Go
The Lord of the Wood
We Were Never Here
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We Used to Live Here
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A Good Person
Legends & Lattes (Legends & Lattes, #1)
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The Lamb
The Three Lives of Cate Kay
Fruit Fly
So Old, So Young
The Song of Achilles
Red, White & Royal Blue (Red, White & Royal Blue, #1)
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
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