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queer

[kweer] / kwɪər /


ADJECTIVE
attracted to same sex
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On a recent evening, south London’s Old Nun’s Head, housed in a century-old Tudor-style building, crackled with energy as dozens of patrons gathered for a boisterous queer speed-dating event.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026

Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo, collectively known as "Los Javis," have wowed critics and filmgoers with their sweeping queer epic telling the interconnected stories of three gay men over multiple generations.

From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2026

So where are the out, unapologetic queer candidates?

From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2026

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

“The goose did what?” asked Mrs. Arable, gazing at her daughter with a queer, worried look.

From "Charlotte's Web" by E.B. White

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

“My aim,” Otero writes in the intro, “is to portray queers of color as makers of history.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 2023

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

"It queers me how you can speak so light of it."

From Joanna Godden by Sheila Kaye-Smith

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

She echoes many of Colón’s points of view when asked if she thinks the island is queerer post–Hurricane Maria.

From Slate ● Apr. 17, 2019

Williams is on the money, however, in suggesting that Baldwin’s renewed appeal is linked to the queer theory and queerer memory of Black Lives Matter.

From Salon ● Jun. 25, 2017

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

From BBC ● May 1, 2016

Plenty of people looked queerer than I did.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath

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

Arya did not know who Bloody Mummers were until a fortnight later, when the queerest company of men she'd ever seen arrived at Harrenhal.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin


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