Anne Frank

If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.

German Writer

Virginia Woolf

I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write.

British Author

Karamo Brown

Unfortunately, a lot people still don't understand queer culture.

American Entertainer

Rita Mae Brown

The only queer people are those who don't love anybody.

American Writer

Kevin Abstract

I don't want to be a queer icon. I want to be an icon.

American Musician

King Princess

Queerness is the lens that I live my life through.

Hunx

Everyone knows queers and women invented punk.

Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman

I love my blackness... I love my queerness.

Canadian Actor

Wangechi Mutu

Kenyan Artist

Christine and the Queens

French Musician

The word 'queer' as strange is less common today and can be considered outdated.

Outdated Usage

When used to describe feelings or expressions, it may convey uncertainty or uneasiness.

Emotional Undertone

Queer is an umbrella term for sexual and gender identities that are not heterosexual or cisgender.

Identity Emphasis

People may choose 'queer' as a self-identifier because it's more flexible than other terms.

Self-Identification

Once a slur, 'queer' has been reclaimed positively, but use carefully as it can still offend.

Neutral or Positive

'Queer' as a noun can often replace 'LGBTQ+ person', but remember it's less formal.

Interchangeable Use

Used as a collective term for a diverse group that defies traditional norms.

Community Reference

As a verb, 'queer' suggests an action that negatively impacts or disrupts something.

Negative Connotation

Using 'queer' as a verb is informal and best suited for casual conversations or fiction.

Colloquial Use

 what's appropriate or not, because we know what happens. It'll start censoring other things. It'll start censoring queer content. It'll start censoring legitimate public speech. What's allowed in these discourses, it shouldn't be something that's left up to unaccountable systems. It's part of a discussion all of us should be having.

The nightmare videos of...

 And it was put together by a sweet sister healer friend of ours. I never wanted a diamond ring, because conflict and convention are not my thing, so my ring is the deepest purple, like the color of my crown chakra, and set in place with my birthstones. The gift of queerness is options. I never had to choose his last name,

A queer vision of love...

 those ones that from us in the Western world we really do remember don't we storks and babies but the marabou stalk my no means are they the deliverers of babies they walk through the landscape feeding on baby birds that fall out of nests I found them many times that queerly

Safari Live - Day 265 PIPE...

 even though queerness is now criminalized in most parts of the continent. And I'm fairly certain that poor people don't generally tend to just disappear because they've been stripped of everything they have. We are all already here, and that answers the question

Who belongs in a city? PIPE...

 and when I realized this, I decided it was time for me to start building bridges between myselves. For me and for others to access me, I had to start indigenizing my queerness. What I mean by indigenizing is stripping away the city life film

Katlego Kolanyane-Kesupil...

 however superior? The history of science has been one long series of violent brainstorms, as successive generations have come to terms with increasing levels of queerness in the universe. We're now so used to the idea that the Earth spins,

Why the universe seems...

 I reject the mainstream feminism that has historically ignored or deflected the needs of women of color, working-class women, queer women and transgender women, in favor of supporting white, middle- and upper-class straight women.

Roxane Gay: Confessions...

 Here's the we don't have to choose. When we make the world a better place to grow old in, we make it a better place in which to be from somewhere else, to have a disability, to be queer, to be non-rich, to be non-white.

Let's end ageism PIPE...

 self-confident adults, and exposure to diversity is an important part of that social and emotional development. And -- gender nonconforming kids and trans kids and kids with trans and nonbinary and queer parents

Why kids need to learn...

 life of great men sitting alongside whatever they have created they would know about what it meant to live as a queer person in Africa under the influence of retrogressive