queer
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Whereas artists back home innovate to push against the status quo, in predominantly white U.S. spaces — especially for queer Latines — the older reggaeton tracks feel more alt.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
So where are the out, unapologetic queer candidates?
From Salon ● 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
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 all that came of it was a queer feeling in the room.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
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Lesbians — or queers, if you'd prefer — deserve more.
From Salon ● Jun. 3, 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
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
The future is queerer than ever, with young people identifying as LGBTQ+ more than before.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2024
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
This season, creator Jill Soloway, together with her trans and cisgender female writers and directors, have outdone themselves, truly, creating something even queerer, edgier, Jewier, and more feminist than any show that has come before it.
From Salon ● Dec. 27, 2015
It was inhabited by people and dwarfs, by gnomes and sylvans and other, even queerer, folk.
From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman
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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
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
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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