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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The Secret World of Briar Rose
The Open Era
Nymph
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Field Guide for the Formerly Villainous (Everyday Magic, #1)
The Unmagical Life of Briar Jones
The Disaster Gay Detective Agency
Muñeca
You Won't Forget Me
Long Island Girls
There's Only One Sin in Hollywood
Rottenheart
We Hexed the Moon
Wasp's Nest
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We Used to Live Here
Blue Sisters
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Somewhere Beyond the Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #2)
Platform Decay (The Murderbot Diaries, #8)
A Good Person
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The Tainted Cup (Shadow of the Leviathan, #1)
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The Lamb
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Heartstopper: Volume Two (Heartstopper, #2)
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