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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

Netflix publicly reported box office results for the first time in its history this weekend as it released its queer drama “La Bola Negra” in U.S. theaters.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 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

In Guitarrica’s music, masculinity is expressed differently, as if reclaiming some of its toxic traits for queer liberation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

A queer brilliance lanced through billowing smoke, and the people of Weep had to squint against it.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

Lesbians — or queers, if you'd prefer — deserve more.

From Salon ● Jun. 3, 2025

Even though my gaydar immediately found the queers in the room.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2024

“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

If you try it when you are strong, you make a failure of it, and then that queers you for ever after. 

From The Jacket (Star-Rover) by Jack London

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

There were some people who would have identified at some point as more radical, more critical, or queerer in some way, and some of those people were still really actively struggling.

From Slate ● Jun. 21, 2019

Everyone who works with us has gotten queerer and queerer in the past six years.

From New York Times ● Jan. 3, 2019

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

From BBC ● May 1, 2016

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

From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman

How incredible because Nervous Gender was the queerest band in town, three gay men with incredibly different visions than I had.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2023

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

The queerness of the series won’t surprise longtime Chucky fans: “Child’s Play” may be the queerest of the big horror franchises.

From New York Times ● Oct. 11, 2021

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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