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
Natural Selection
The Halls of the Dead
The Minimalist
The Divine Gardener's Handbook: Or What To Do If Your Girlfriend Accidentally Turns Off the Sun: A Novel
Bridget & Gabe Are Not Okay
Unprecedented Times
The Blue Moon Café & 24-Hour Occult Emporium
The Salt King
Fruit Fly
We Used to Live Here
A Trade of Blood (Ana and Din Mysteries, #3)
Villa Coco
Blue Sisters
The Tainted Cup (Ana and Din Mysteries, #1)
Cleopatra and Frankenstein
A Good Person
Somewhere Beyond the Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #2)
Legends & Lattes (Legends & Lattes, #1)
The Lamb
Platform Decay (The Murderbot Diaries, #8)
A Drop of Corruption (Ana and Din Mysteries, #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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LGBTQ Science Fiction and Fantasy
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The Song of Achilles
Red, White & Royal Blue (Red, White & Royal Blue, #1)
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Heartstopper: Volume One (Heartstopper, #1)
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (Aristotle and Dante, #1)
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)
Heartstopper: Volume Four (Heartstopper, #4)
Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1)
Call Me By Your Name (Call Me By Your Name, #1)

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Queer' not as being about who you're having sex with (that can be a dimension of it); but 'queer' as being about the self that is at odds with everything around it and that has to invent and create and find a place to speak and to thrive and to live. ...more
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