queer

“It’s like a love letter to Black queer culture, our intimacy. It’s so sexy without me and her having an overt love interest. It just feels so implied in this smart way.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

“I had met a lot of other surfers from all over the world and built a queer community of surfers here in L.A.,” says Walsh.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026

Shortly after, Guidera started Dream Team Surf, a collective for queer surfers to meet up and build camaraderie.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026

"Even at the best of times, queer culture is vulnerable and you can't take anything for granted," Bailey told BBC News.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

“If I’d been alone, I’d have just talked to him. Fritz says he’s a queer old man but nice when you know him.”

From "Miracles on Maple Hill" by Virginia Sorensen

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

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

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

Gen Z and Gen Alpha are already telling us they’re queerer than the rest of us, with about a quarter of Gen Z identifying as LGBTQ+, according to recent polls.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2024

No wonder “Down With Love” has become something of a cult item, its meta-referential charms perhaps more apparent to a younger, queerer generation that better understands the role-playing nature of gender and romantic courtship.

From New York Times ● May 9, 2023

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

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

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

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

“You say the queerest things. What are you talking about?”

From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott