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Definitions

queer

[kweer] / kwɪər /


ADJECTIVE
attracted to same sex
Synonyms
STRONG
achillean bisexual gay homosexual lesbian sapphic
Antonyms
STRONGEST
heterosexual straight


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Savage hopes the party will help people fall in love with queer and trans DJs who usually create music in their bedrooms and rarely get to play their music to the club.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

A recent HRC study on the queer wage gap found that trans women earn only 60 cents for every dollar a “typical worker” makes, according to the Bureau of Labor’s statistics.

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

“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

A queer little shiver passed through Sophie’s body.

From "The BFG" by Roald Dahl

Straights and queers, in other words, never get a clear view of each other through a flat lens.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2025

The Gen Z queers I spoke with also rejected transmedicalism, the idea that one must suffer through gender dysphoria and need surgery to be trans.

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

"It queers me how you can speak so light of it."

From Joanna Godden by Sheila Kaye-Smith

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

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

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

‘Well, if that isn’t queerer than ever?’ he exclaimed.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

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

It was the queerest thing, but Marly actually got so excited about the goats and chickens that she forgot about telling Joe what she had come to tell.

From "Miracles on Maple Hill" by Virginia Sorensen



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