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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Year of the Mer
Fruit Fly: A Novel
Wife Shaped Bodies
The Duke
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The Witch and the Huntress
A Murder Most Camp
The Bloody and the Damned
American Spirits
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The Impossible Garden of Clara Thorne
The Beast You Let In
We Used to Live Here
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Somewhere Beyond the Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #2)
The Three Lives of Cate Kay
Legends & Lattes (Legends & Lattes, #1)
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Cleopatra and Frankenstein
Razorblade Tears
Wayward Girls
The Emperor of Gladness
The Tainted Cup (Shadow of the Leviathan, #1)
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