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)
“They’re a queer lot;Main’t they,—the sort of people one meets about in the world?”
—Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)
“Now I have entered the year without words.
I note the queer entrance and the exact voltage.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)