Queer definition

Queer means a wide range of diverse sexes, genders, sexual orientations and romantic orientations;
Queer means any person who self- identifies as:
Queer means a person who identifies as being outside the confines of heteronormativity, including gay, lesbian, bisexual, asexual, pansexual, polyamorous, sista-girl, trans*, intersex, sex and/or gender diverse, and/or practices BDSM. This is a non-exhaustive list of self-descriptive labels used by those who have sought active inclusion and participation in the networks of queer activism and community.

Examples of Queer in a sentence

  • Queer sägs enbart vara en kritisk rörelse som inte strävar efter några specifika värden eller normer, men i själva verket kräver man en total rörlighet i människors identiteter, ett värde som hänger nära samman med individualism.

  • Holly Furneaux, Queer Dickens: Erotics, Families, Masculinities (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), pp.

  • Queer and Present Danger: Understanding the Disparate Impacts of Disasters on LGBTQ+ Communities.

  • Queer har därför mött på ett stort motstånd när det gäller att få till den djupare förändring av samhället som queer syftar till.

  • Queer translators may do something similar, naturally, in terms of queer studies and theories.


More Definitions of Queer

Queer means meansan umbrella term for a wide range of non-conforming diverse sexes, genders, sexual orientations and identities and sexual orientationsromantic orientations;
Queer means a person whose gender expression, gender
Queer means any person who self-identifies as any part of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex plus community, or is questioning, or any person being of any other identity or expression outside of heterosexuality or cis-gender.
Queer means an all-inclusive identity of the various identities or variations that constitute the LGBTTQQIAAP+ community;
Queer means ‘different’, ‘unusual’ from an etymological root meaning ‘perpendicular’ – in the sense of not going in the same direction. However, mainstream LGBT organisations have often rather striven for the same rights as heterosexual and cisgender people in the eyes of the state. While this seems like a good idea on the surface, in practice it often leads to three downsides. Firstly, this opens up queers for more surveillance and control by the state.
Queer itself means across – it comes from the Indo-European root twerkw, which also yields the German quer (transverse), Latin torquere (to twist0, English athwart … queer … is …
Queer means strange, weird, oblique. If it was originally used in a derogatory sense, it is now proudly revendicated by those who were looked down upon with such adjectives. The queer theory in some aspects presents a line of continuity with gender theories, for others it introduces new and even more radical elements that break away from previous thought. (Palazzani 44)