Queer
Queer is an umbrella term for sexual and gender minorities that are not heterosexual, heteronormative, or gender-binary. In the context of Western identity politics the term also acts as a label setting queer-identifying people apart from discourse, ideologies, and lifestyles that typify mainstream LGBTI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex) communities as being oppressive or assimilationist.
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Famous quotes containing the word queer:
“I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again—as I always am when I write.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)
“Now I have entered the year without words.
I note the queer entrance and the exact voltage.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“Heaven is not built of country seats
But little queer suburban streets.”
—Christopher Morley (1890–1957)