Queer
Queer is an umbrella term for sexual and gender minorities that are not heterosexual, heteronormative, or gender-binary. In the context of Western identity politics the term also acts as a label setting queer-identifying people apart from discourse, ideologies, and lifestyles that typify mainstream LGBTI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex) communities as being oppressive or assimilationist.
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Famous quotes containing the word queer:
“Oh dear, oh dear. I have a queer feeling there’s going to be a strange face in heaven in the morning.”
—Dudley Nichols (1895–1960)
“I have seen the queer in queer places,
But never before a heaven-fed
Naiad of the Carnival-Tank!”
—Anne Spencer (1882–1975)
“For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.”
—Joyce Cary (1888–1957)