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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Needle Lake
Sparks Fly
The Book of Luke
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We Will Rise Again: Speculative Stories and Essays on Protest, Resistance, and Hope
Audrey Lane Stirs the Pot (Winner Bakes All, #3)
Casanova 20: Or, Hot World
This Brutal Moon (The Kindom Trilogy, #3)
Snowy Skies and Puppy Eyes (Back to Belleville #1)
Laurie (Hazelthorn, #0.5)
John Wilder Gets Schooled (Goose Run, #2)
On Dancer (An Annabeth Albert Christmas)
Try Again Later (Try for Love, #2)
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We Used to Live Here
Blue Sisters
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
The Three Lives of Cate Kay
Legends & Lattes (Legends & Lattes, #1)
The Emperor of Gladness
Cleopatra and Frankenstein
All the Way to the River
What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #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]
Razorblade Tears
The Guncle (The Guncle, #1)
The Tainted Cup (Shadow of the Leviathan, #1)
Hollow
Brigands & Breadknives (Legends & Lattes, #2)
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Red, White & Royal Blue
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The House in the Cerulean Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #1)
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Giovanni’s Room
They Both Die at the End (They Both Die at the End, #1)
Heartstopper: Volume Four (Heartstopper, #4)
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