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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

While activists and heroes usually get most of the public’s attention, queer historian and author Timothy Stewart-Winter argues that it’s just as important to focus on the more complicated figures.

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

It is queer that almost all of the regular sergeant-majors are fat.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque

“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

An older bisexual character is something missing from television, where elder queers are few and far between.

From Salon ● Jan. 22, 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

The future is queerer than ever, with young people identifying as LGBTQ+ more than before.

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

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

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

From BBC ● May 1, 2016

Or as the biologist J. B. S. Haldane once famously observed: "The universe is not only queerer than we suppose; it is queerer than we can suppose."

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

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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