Queer
adjective
Strange or difficult to understand or explain.
She had a queer feeling that they had met before
Often appears as...
- queer feeling
- queer sense
adjective
A term used to describe people who are not straight or heterosexual.
They identify as queer
Often appears as...
- identify as queer
- queer community
Usage tips
Modern
noun
A person who identifies as not being straight or who is not heterosexual.
He is a queer
Often appears as...
- queer community
- queer culture
Usage tips
Modern
verb
Spoil or ruin (an agreement, event, or situation).
Reg was being very careful not to queer the deal
Often appears as...
- queer the deal
- queer the pitch
Usage tips
Informal
adjective
Strange or difficult to understand or explain.
She had a queer feeling that they had met before
Often appears as...
- queer feeling
- queer sense
adjective
A term used to describe people who are not straight or heterosexual.
They identify as queer
Often appears as...
- identify as queer
- queer community
Usage tips
Modern
noun
A person who identifies as not being straight or who is not heterosexual.
He is a queer
Often appears as...
- queer community
- queer culture
Usage tips
Modern
verb
Spoil or ruin (an agreement, event, or situation).
Reg was being very careful not to queer the deal
Often appears as...
- queer the deal
- queer the pitch
Usage tips
Informal
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/2Outdated Usage
The word 'queer' as strange is less common today and can be considered outdated.
What a queer old-fashioned hat she's wearing!
Pro Tip 2/2Emotional Undertone
When used to describe feelings or expressions, it may convey uncertainty or uneasiness.
He gave me a queer look, as if he disapproved.
Pro Tip 1/2Outdated Usage
The word 'queer' as strange is less common today and can be considered outdated.
What a queer old-fashioned hat she's wearing!
Pro Tip 2/2Emotional Undertone
When used to describe feelings or expressions, it may convey uncertainty or uneasiness.
He gave me a queer look, as if he disapproved.
Pro Tip 1/2Outdated Usage
The word 'queer' as strange is less common today and can be considered outdated.
What a queer old-fashioned hat she's wearing!
Pro Tip 2/2Emotional Undertone
When used to describe feelings or expressions, it may convey uncertainty or uneasiness.
He gave me a queer look, as if he disapproved.
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Video examples
The nightmare videos of...
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.
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A queer vision of love...
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,
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Safari Live - Day 265 PIPE...
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
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Who belongs in a city? 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
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Katlego Kolanyane-Kesupil...
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
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Why the universe seems...
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,
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Roxane Gay: Confessions...
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.
Video examples
Let's end ageism PIPE...
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.
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Why kids need to learn...
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
Video examples
Diversifying the voices...
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
Video examples
The nightmare videos of...
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.
Video examples
A queer vision of love...
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,
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 265 PIPE...
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
Video examples
Who belongs in a city? 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
Video examples
Katlego Kolanyane-Kesupil...
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
Video examples
Why the universe seems...
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,
Video examples
Roxane Gay: Confessions...
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.
Video examples
Let's end ageism PIPE...
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.
Video examples
Why kids need to learn...
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
Video examples
Diversifying the voices...
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
Example 1 of 10
Quote examples
Anne Frank
German Writer
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.
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Virginia Woolf
British Author
I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write.
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Karamo Brown
American Entertainer
Unfortunately, a lot people still don't understand queer culture.
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Rita Mae Brown
American Writer
The only queer people are those who don't love anybody.
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Kevin Abstract
American Musician
I don't want to be a queer icon. I want to be an icon.
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King Princess
American Musician
Queerness is the lens that I live my life through.
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Hunx
American Musician
Everyone knows queers and women invented punk.
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Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman
Canadian Actor
I love my blackness... I love my queerness.
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Wangechi Mutu
Kenyan Artist
Equal rights for women and queer folks!
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Christine and the Queens
French Musician
My whole life is queer.
Quote examples
Anne Frank
German Writer
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.
Quote examples
Virginia Woolf
British Author
I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write.
Quote examples
Karamo Brown
American Entertainer
Unfortunately, a lot people still don't understand queer culture.
Quote examples
Rita Mae Brown
American Writer
The only queer people are those who don't love anybody.
Quote examples
Kevin Abstract
American Musician
I don't want to be a queer icon. I want to be an icon.
Quote examples
King Princess
American Musician
Queerness is the lens that I live my life through.
Quote examples
Hunx
American Musician
Everyone knows queers and women invented punk.
Quote examples
Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman
Canadian Actor
I love my blackness... I love my queerness.
Quote examples
Wangechi Mutu
Kenyan Artist
Equal rights for women and queer folks!
Quote examples
Christine and the Queens
French Musician
My whole life is queer.
Example 1 of 10
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