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

John of John
Homebound
Canon
Bone of My Bone
Bromantasy
The Bone Door
The Lost Book of Lancelot
Waiting on a Friend
The Fake Divination Offense (Magic and Romance, #2)
Radiant Star
Villain (Hench, #2)
Decomposition Book
Body Count
A Kiss of Crimson Ash (Games of the Goddess, #1)
Returns and Exchanges
We Used to Live Here
Platform Decay (The Murderbot Diaries, #8)
Blue Sisters
Somewhere Beyond the Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #2)
A Family Matter
So Old, So Young
A Good Person
Villa Coco
The Three Lives of Cate Kay
Legends & Lattes (Legends & Lattes, #1)
Cleopatra and Frankenstein
Razorblade Tears
Score (Hollywood Renaissance, #2)
The Summer Hikaru Died, Vol. 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]
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The Song of Achilles
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This Is How You Lose the Time War
One Last Stop
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Heartstopper: Volume Two (Heartstopper, #2)
Giovanni’s Room
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They Both Die at the End (They Both Die at the End, #1)
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