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 have seen the queer in queer places,
But never before a heaven-fed
Naiad of the Carnival-Tank!”
—Anne Spencer (1882–1975)
“Heaven is not built of country seats
But little queer suburban streets.”
—Christopher Morley (1890–1957)
“It is queer how it is always one’s virtues and not one’s vices that precipitate one into disaster.”
—Rebecca West (1892–1983)