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- Dictionaryqueer/kwir/
adjective
- 1. strange; odd: "she had a queer feeling that they were being watched" Similar Opposite
- 2. denoting or relating to a sexual or gender identity that does not correspond to established ideas of sexuality and gender, especially heterosexual norms: "queer geek culture has featured gay themes since the 1980s" Similar Opposite
noun
- 1. a gay man. offensive
verb
- 1. spoil or ruin (an agreement, event, or situation): informal "Reg didn't want someone meddling and queering the deal at the last minute"
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4 days ago · Some people identify as pansexual or queer in terms of their sexual orientation, which means they define their sexual orientation outside of the gender binary of 'male' and 'female' only.
4 days ago · The key identity labels reported were nonbinary, used by 63.1% of respondents (down 0.8% from the previous year), queer (54.8%, up 0.2%), trans (46.7%, up 8.5%), a category described simply as a person/human/ [my name]/“I’m just me” (42.5%, newly included this year), and transgender (40.3%, up 6.4%). [92]
2 days ago · Definition of Gay. Homosexuality is considered to be same-sex sexual attraction and behavior and "gay" is a synonym of homosexuality. The term "homosexuality" 1 was first used by Victorian scientists who considered same-sex sexual attraction and behavior a "moral deficiency."
2 days ago · Same-sex marriage, also known as gay marriage, is the marriage of two people of the same legal sex. As of 2024, marriage between same-sex couples is legally performed and recognized in 36 countries, with a total population of 1.5 billion people (20% of the world's population).
5 days ago · Reflecting on queerness as an affect, through those failed, unspeakable queer performances that have been rendered non-credible by the affective rules of spoken sexual truth, it aims to challenge white-centred definitions of “genuine” queerness and the binaries of compliance and resistance in slow-death apparatuses. KEYWORDS: Credibility.
3 days ago · Summary. Queer International Relations (IR) is not a new field. For more than 20 years, Queer IR scholarship has focused on how normativities and/or non-normativities associated with categories of sex, gender, and sexuality sustain and contest international formations of power in relation to institutions like heteronormativity, homonormativity ...
4 days ago · Vandenberg was nearly 40 and had been married to a man for years when she realized that she was missing a key part of her identity. And that led to a life-changing decision to come out as queer.