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queer

[kweer] / kwɪər /


ADJECTIVE
attracted to same sex
Synonyms
STRONG
achillean bisexual gay homosexual lesbian sapphic
Antonyms
STRONGEST
heterosexual straight


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He said: "What is wonderful is I feel like people can often pigeonhole queer cinema, and those two films show the spectrum and diversity that can be found."

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

“When you’ve already surrounded yourself with queer circles that seem so safe, it’s often easy to forget many of the realities you experienced before,” Guitarrica says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

Learning about gay rights before Stonewall: It’s LGBTQ+ history month, which means it’s a great moment to learn more about our queer forebears.

From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026

But she lives on in cinema, thanks to the 1985 landmark queer Mexican film “Doña Herlinda and Her Son,” by director Jaime Humberto Hermosillo, where she played the titular Doña Herlinda.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

I had once suggested a textual emendation in class, and he had given me a queer look.

From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok

This ethos is encapsulated in one of her favorite posters, which declares: “Blessed are the queers cooking each other’s meals.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2026

Straights and queers, in other words, never get a clear view of each other through a flat lens.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2025

“To the queers, to the Latin, to the immigrants, this is for you,” said Lacorazza, a Colombian American filmmaker whose film is set in Las Cruces, New Mexico.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 26, 2024

They were lesbians, gays, queers, and gender-nonconforming people who had been the target of homophobic and transphobic speech and violence.

From Slate ● Sep. 26, 2023

Or perhaps she does something that queers herself first thing.”

From Beatrice Leigh at College A Story for Girls by Julia Augusta Schwartz

With recent polls showing that about a quarter of Gen Z adults in the U.S. identify as LGBTQ+, it’s clear the future is queerer than ever.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2024

Mallory Ortberg: We’ve made it through another week, a little wiser, a little queerer.

From Slate ● Apr. 11, 2017

The room for diversity, for queerer set-ups, non-conformity and community could be squeezed out by normativity.

From BBC ● May 1, 2016

This season, creator Jill Soloway, together with her trans and cisgender female writers and directors, have outdone themselves, truly, creating something even queerer, edgier, Jewier, and more feminist than any show that has come before it.

From Salon ● Dec. 27, 2015

It was inhabited by people and dwarfs, by gnomes and sylvans and other, even queerer, folk.

From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman

Seattle is one of the queerest cities in America — more than one in 10 people identify as LGBTQ+, rivaling San Francisco, according to market research giant Nielsen.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 4, 2022

But having already been approached by fans of the show since her casting was announced, she's fully aware of how important the show is and describes its fans as "the nicest, queerest and queer-friendliest audience."

From BBC ● Apr. 13, 2022

Transfused with what Mohabir calls in his author’s note, “the queerest magic” of his Aji’s songs, it’s an incomparable, hybrid account of self and family that defies expectations.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 6, 2021

For Tom Fitzgerald and Lorenzo Marquez, the savvy critics behind pop culture blog TomandLorenzo.com, “RuPaul’s Drag Race” is a fabulous, groundbreaking delight — not to mention “the queerest show in the history of television.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 2020

The stags were the queerest to watch, for of course the antlers came up a long time before the rest of them, so at First Digory thought they were trees.

From "The Magician's Nephew" by C. S. Lewis


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