queer
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With its three interconnected stories that follow queer men through nearly a century of Spanish history, “La Bola Negra” has an epic feel and emotional payoff that could carry it far.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 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
Savage hopes the party will help people fall in love with queer and trans DJs who usually create music in their bedrooms and rarely get to play their music to the club.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
"So for example, people of colour, gender, queer people, people with kind of interesting and distinguishing facial features, it means that they're going to be left out," she said.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
"It’s queer, when one thinks about it,” goes on Kropp, "we are here to protect our fatherland. And the French are over there to protect their fatherland. Now who’s in the right?”
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
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Lesbians — or queers, if you'd prefer — deserve more.
From Salon ● Jun. 3, 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
I had these friends — Marcy Coburn, Kat Wentworth, John Robertson — that were queers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 27, 2023
All the other correspondents have some regard for—for their position and for the paper, but you loaf around here looking like an old tramp—like any old beach-comber, and it queers the rest of us.
From Ranson's Folly by Richard Harding Davis
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
Plenty of people looked queerer than I did.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
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A place where country music, with all its contradictions and complexities, embraces its messiest, queerest, most joyful self.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 9, 2025
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
The queerest thing about the reptile was simply that it was.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
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