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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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"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

“There are queer people from all over thinking I will move there and be myself. Now that’s changing.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

The bar’s popularity among queer San Francisco tech executives and politicians helped it convince Meta to restore its pages.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

“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

My feet made a queer crunching noise as I crossed the shingle.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier

“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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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