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So where are the out, unapologetic queer candidates?

From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2026

For queer people who never had the canonical experience of grinding in their high school gym, a party called Trakata fills that primal need — and operates on the same queer, rebellious frequency as neoperreo.

From Los Angeles Times ● 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

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

She heard Mamá say in a queer, dull tone, “Sí, Antonio, you are right. Ay de mí. Shall I call Lupita in?”

From "Lupita Mañana" by Patricia Beatty

“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

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

From Salon ● Jan. 22, 2023

Fan jest passed me, turned away 'er eyes, Guess she ranked me with the other guys, Nobby larks upon the ninth, my joker; But it queers a chap to want the ochre.

From Mr. Punch's Cockney Humour by Various

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

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

From New York Times ● Jan. 3, 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

Mallory Ortberg: We’ve made it through another week, a little wiser, a little queerer.

From Slate ● Apr. 11, 2017

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

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

The queerest thing about the reptile was simply that it was.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel