queer
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DJ and party attendee Sarah Graves loves the queer vendors selling accessories, giving out harm-reduction materials, and zines, and the Piercings by Mire booth that frequently pops up at the rave.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
Lesbian bars, and bars that cater to queer women, are few and far between.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
"So for example, people of colour, gender, queer people, people with kind of interesting and distinguishing facial features, it means that they're going to be left out," she said.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
More than 1.3 million queer young people in the U.S. used the “Press 3” service between its launch in 2022 and suspension in July 2025.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
"You always were a queer girl, Aravis," said Lasaraleen.
From "The Horse and His Boy" by C.S. Lewis
This ethos is encapsulated in one of her favorite posters, which declares: “Blessed are the queers cooking each other’s meals.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2026
“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
An older bisexual character is something missing from television, where elder queers are few and far between.
From Salon ● Jan. 22, 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
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
Mallory Ortberg: We’ve made it through another week, a little wiser, a little queerer.
From Slate ● Apr. 11, 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
A place where country music, with all its contradictions and complexities, embraces its messiest, queerest, most joyful self.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 9, 2025
That’s one of the queerest books, in both the classic and the modern sense.
From New York Times ● Jun. 22, 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
“You say the queerest things. What are you talking about?”
From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott
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