What makes a good queer, a progressive queer, a hot queer, a likable queer?
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This is a queer movie made by queer people for queer people.
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Like the 'Queer' top; it's not queer as in gay, it's queer as in oddball.
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The more publicly queer people and queer relationships we have, the more openly queer children we raise.
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Trans people, queer people of color, and queer youth are overly incarcerated; this should be a queer issue.
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There's so much to say because as queer people we're not just queers; we're also queer people of colour, we're also queer disabled people, and we're also queer women.
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Like Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, Queer Eye for the Queer Woman would fill an overlooked emotional need.
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If sex magic can be done alone or without having queer sex, what's so queer about queer sex magic?
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Crack open a queer-centered book, especially historical queer lit and banned queer lit, which rarely gets the love it deserves.
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The resulting images are of queer Africans, by a queer African.
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Whereas AfterEllen was a site made for and by queer women, outlets like Buzzfeed and HuffPost Queer Voices helped straight people understand queer culture.
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To put it simply: Queer women are hungry for more queer content.
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Just take a look at this delightfully queer/queer-adjacent fan montage.
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Can I speak about being queer if I'm not seen as queer?
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Thus, lesbian bars give way to queer nights at non-queer bars.
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Insisting that hints of queer relationships be kept ambiguous has been done for decades to erase acknowledgment of queer identity and queer relationships from media narratives.
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Me being a queer artist and him being one of the first queer male dancers to perform as a queer person — he's somebody I've always admired.
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London has no queer museum, and no longer has a dedicated queer center.
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Like Queer Eye, Love, Simon is ultimately too focused on straight people's relationship to queerness, rather than queer people's relationship to their own experience of being queer.
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Liz Alpern, a founder of Queer Soup Night, and Ora Wise, who runs the queer and trans wellness collective Queer Anga, work as culinary advisers and hosts.
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In 2015, James Michael Nichols, then of HuffPost Gay Voices (since renamed Queer Voices), defined how 14 queer, trans and queer-adjacent designers were changing mainstream fashion.
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The neighborhood remains queer, but queer parties also happen throughout the city's outer boroughs.
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Has Queer Eye allowed you (via social media) to connect with younger queer youth?
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Queer California packs a small space with more than 200 years of queer culture.
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But thanks to Instagram, "queer" and queer-adjacent animal representation is starting to spike.
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The voices of queer folks with disabilities, and of queer people of color. Duh.
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The formative link between queer people—queer women in particular—and witches is clear.
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"Early queer life flourished where there were jobs queer people could have," he explains.
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How queer do you have to be to be "queer enough" for your community?
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But here's the thing: Hipster style is just queer style, particularly queer women's style.
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They've never had a movie including queer leads that are queer in the movie.
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The genre needs explicitly queer-affirming artists because it has been explicitly anti-queer in the recent past, and much of it continues to be anti-queer today.
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Here are a few of the best queer accounts on Instagram, from queer Appalachian meme culture to LGBTQIA+ astrology— and some non-tearful reminiscing about queer platforms past.
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Related: A 'Queer' New Gallery Breaks Down Art World Walls A New Art Show Tracks Queer Life in Everyday Portraits Illustrator Draws Queer People of Color Doing Everyday Things
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Related: Queer Femme Fatales Redefine Traditional Portraiture | City of the Seekers Queer Women Just Live Their Lives in These GIFs Illustrator Draws Queer People of Color Doing Everyday Things
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A good LGBTQ ally understands how to lift up not just queer voices but black queer voices, queer sex workers' voices, and impoverished trans people's voices, among other identities.
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These are things that not all queer people, especially queer youth, know the comfort of.
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Students need to know what queer identities are and that it's okay to be queer.
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I have a lot of queer motifs and flags that were done by queer people.
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But it's also ultimately a straight person giving a queer person permission to be queer.
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The government may find that if it asks queer questions it gets some queer answers.
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The queer liberation movement has victoriously diversified the ways in which one can be queer.
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Either you're legible in mainstream culture—you pass—yet you aren't seen as queer in queer communities, or you're visibly queer, and thereby a target for homophobic and transphobic violence.
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And it's exciting to see queer actors play queer roles in these massive-budget movies because the more queer people involved in this fantasy-building — from every angle — the better.
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Right. Read These Stories Next:Antoni From Queer Eye Can Cook & We Have The Proof Learning To Cook With Queer Eye's Antoni Porowski Do We Really Need Netflix's Queer Eye Revival?
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"I kept wanting to go to all these queer events, but didn't want to face people who might say, 'You're not queer just because your parents are queer,'" she said.
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I am very queer and feel like queer male sex is some of the queerest porn available because there are more genuinely queer male performers than female in the industry.
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My queer community and chosen queer family are angry, terrified, anguished, disappointed, disillusioned, despairing…and mobilizing.
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I'm a queer woman in an industry that does not have a lot of queer people.
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For the most part, queer people do not grow up with queer parents or family members.
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The 2000s brought us groundbreaking queer-centric shows like Queer as Folk and The L-Word.
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It features 17 stories from queer YA authors, about queer teens and their adventures throughout history.
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Frappier encouraged people exploring their bi/queer identity to go to LGBTQ events, read books about sexuality or written by queer authors, support bisexual artists and musicians, or join queer groups.
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The game also presents queer relationships in a way that is uniquely fannish — specifically very close to queer shipping and slash fanfiction, queer male romance written primarily by women for other women.
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If you are a queer man, recognize that your queer women or non-binary friends may not feel comfortable in a male-dominated space, even if it's dominated by queer men. 82.
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While they're doing Seattle's queer community a great service, and providing its queer and queer-friendly mechanics a fun, open, and safe workplace, the situation is still bad in most other places.
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It's rare that straight culture has to contend with the deep ironies of queer life and queer identity that have been forced onto queer people by the very society that ostracizes them.
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Hector Carrero was a queer dreamboat who turned into a queer reality on MTV Real World Philadelphia.
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THUMP: Your parties are more like discos-that-are-queer rather than definitively gay or queer discos.
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I started a queer label that's also focused on having space for females and queer techno artists.
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The same goes for Disney's queer characters, to the extent that queer characters exist in its films.
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The Quad Cinema in New York City is showing Queer Kino, a selection of queer cinema from East and West Germany in the 133s and '80s Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads This week, the Quad Cinema is showing Queer Kino, German queer cinema from the 1970s and '80s.
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How exactly do we reclaim scholarship from a queer perspective, develop the careers of queer people in the arts, and use the museum as an ally for political forces fighting for queer rights?
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At one point or another, most queer Muslims have either been a closeted Muslim or a closeted queer.
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But the fact that they are queer and moving about the city, to me make it queer content.
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I'm queer and 34 years old, and I still feel like my queer vocabulary is out of date.
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Queer Eye (2018-present)The Gist: The Netflix reboot of Queer Eye dropped and the whole world wept.
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You hope that this series serves, in part, to archive queer history and increase queer visibility in Cuba.
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Queer femmes have actually been told that they don't belong in queer spaces because they don't "look" gay.
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Tours through the queer communities of Brooklyn in the 1850s and the queer communities of America's heartland today.
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Still, I'm so here for queer romance on screen, especially when one of those actresses is actually queer.
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The data on queer people of color, particularly queer men, being susceptible to the disease is well documented.
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Some straight people who identify with LGBTQ culture, such as children of queer parents, call themselves 'culturally queer.
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Steinman-Iacullo focuses on highlighting queer elders that might otherwise get left out of conversations around queer culture.
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It's also a point of pride to be a queer woman of color drawing queer women of color.
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Pisces: Queer Eye Any Pisces that has not caught on to the Queer Eye craze should start now.
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I ask Hollis Robin, drummer of queer feminist punk band Teenage Caveman, whether straight people can be queer.
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" Hollis prefers the term queer and uses that "when talking to other queer people/people who get it.
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Nearly every masc-of-center queer person I know got their first queer haircut there in their 22016s.
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I'm hopeful because people are doing queer nights at other spaces, but we're still losing our queer spaces.
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Some have accused the book of "queer baiting," which refers to the allusion of characters' queer identities in order to appeal to a queer fan base without actually following through and making it canon.
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The Real Qweens' Wedding was organized by a coalition of queer activist groups: The Outside Project, Loud and Queerly, ACT UP London, Queerseum and Eco Queer UK, in partnership with Queer Tours of London.
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Read These Stories Next: Antoni From Queer Eye Can Cook & We Have The Proof If Queer Eye Is Making You Cry Like A Baby, You're Not Alone Do We Really Need Netflix's Queer Eye Revival?
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Exhibitions like 2011's Creating A Queer Museum and 2014's Queer Threads asked viewers to think of queer art in terms of history, medium, and identity politics instead of through a simplistic, voyeuristic lens.
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Related: Meet the Queer Latino Illustrator Who Brought Breakdancing to the Fashion World Illustrator Draws Queer People of Color Doing Everyday Things A 'Queer Enlightenment' at the World's First Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art
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I went to the Queer Zine Fair, the opening of Y'all Better Quiet Down at the Bureau of General Services — Queer Division (BGSQD), Stonewall 50 at Clifford Chance, and several other queer art shows already.
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So the visibility functions of queer spaces is still very important [for queer people to feel like they exist].
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But The Missing argues in favor of queer tragedy, or at least queer pain as a locus of storytelling.
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This nativity was sent to Queer Appalachia, my favorite Instagram account for all things queer and Appalachian and weird.
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If you're looking for a 100% female- and queer-friendly site, Sugarbutch has some great queer gang bang porn.
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The pair will discuss their work that explores hidden queer spaces and establishments that have re-conceptualized queer movements.
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Every episode of Queer Eye can make you cry, but especially Rob Elrod's episode in Queer Eye Season 3.
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What I feel most strongly about is the idea that queer people anywhere are responsible for queer people everywhere.
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In doing so, the film — and its stars — are charting a new future for queer films and queer actors.
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Although I really only started identifying as queer within the last year and just realizing, oh, punk is queer.
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Queer Eye: By now you're aware that Netflix's Queer Eye is the purest and most comforting TV show around.
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Other issues include the company's alleged history of algorithmically suppressing queer content from recommended videos and censoring queer advertisements.
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Boston Pride, Providence Pride, a conversation on queer photography in NYC, and performing in two different queer dance festivals.
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Before Queer Eye and its predecessor Queer Eye For The Straight Guy, The Oprah Show ruled the makeover game.
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I reached out to some of my favorite queer performers about their experience reinterpreting media for the queer gaze.
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"It's this tall monster," says Rex, a queer man who believes that the Babadook is obviously also very queer.
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No, the game wasn't specifically about being queer, but it took queer identity seriously, as a fact of life.
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So much has been made about Wonder Woman being queer, but Harley's world has long been a queer one.
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My calendar is looking so queer, cute, and full with openings, performances, and lectures by queer people this month.
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Queer women love Practical Magic for its queer potential breaking through a sad reality: that heterosexuality is a curse.
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You don't have to be queer to be gay, but do you have to be gay to be queer?
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Two of the most popular shows that brand themselves as queer today are RuPaul's Drag Race and Queer Eye.
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Soloway's world is aggressively specific: Jewy, screwy, L.A., upper middle class, not so much queer-friendly as queer-saturated.
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WM: Why aren't there more queer people who are just out, making stuff about day to day queer life?
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A consistent theme in both porn featuring queer men and porn featuring queer women is the masc-femme dicotomy.
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YouTube has long had a rocky relationship with its queer users, due to a history of restricting queer content.
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I guess my last question, then, would be whether you think the television industry should be focussing on more queer characters breaking into mainstream TV (say, having a stronger queer presence on established network sitcoms) or to have more shows that focus on decidedly queer issues (programs like Drag Race or Queer Eye ).
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"We started paying attention to the number of queer spaces that are closing," Exton said, noting that women's centers, lesbian bars, queer bookshops and other queer IRL spaces are closing in record numbers in recent years.
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"There is an issue with queer women, regardless of their identity, not feeling queer enough or feeling stereotyped by their gender presentation," says Erin McConocha, a queer woman and the project coordinator for Pachankis' research lab.
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So, for the vast majority of the queer community who don't have access to queer friendly barbers (or sensitive barbershops), queer barber influencers on Instagram provide the hair tips — and sometimes just the hope — folks need.
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Yes, newer FE games have provided "queer options," but those queer options often go hand-in-hand with something, be it narrative or mechanical or both, that shuts down or inhibits queer experiences of those options.
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When you're not winning awards you also produce a show for up-and-coming queer comedians, Queer and Present Danger.
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Below, five gay men told VICE about the deeply individual, often triumphant after effects of queer-to-queer sperm donation.
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Queer As Folk predated it by a few years, and queer stories have been told on television since the '22017s.
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All of the artists used a queer archive called QueerArch (aka Korea Queer Archive) as the catalyst for their work.
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But the more straight actors who take those roles, the fewer queer parts available for up-and-coming queer actors.
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Who better to help queer women navigate that crisis than, um, some overbearing queer hosts from a reality TV show?
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If you want to see porn that's made by queer directors who feature actual queer performers, head to CrashPad Series.
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And also, realizing that just because you're queer, you're under no obligation to tell a queer story every single time.
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We are the children of long-dead stars, and if we are queer, then surely some stars are also queer.
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The idea is to say that we are queer and therefore we care about other queer people around the world.
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The real news isn't that Wonder Woman is queer, it's that her queer origins have been erased for so long.
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While there's clearly rationale in casting queer for queer parts, there are practical realities of the industry to consider too.
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"Even though it's a mixed crowd, we are queer people doing a queer party," said Ms. Escobar, who is transgender.
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There are queer and lesbian dance nights, sure, but in most cities, "queer" bars cater almost exclusively to gay men.
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Hobson agreed, stating that judgment by the queer community and outside it creates an anxiety for non-gay queer folks.
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Neither of us learned anything about queer sex or even identities, including what safer sex looks like for queer couples.
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But within several days, he internet-met other queer Armenians, who knew other queer and trans Armenians, and eventually, we created a Facebook group with over 50 queer, trans, and feminist Armenians from all around the world.
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Your show Never Apart on OUTtv is about bringing queer art and queer artists into the mainstream, and so I'm wondering, what specifically can queer artists bring to the art world that maybe a straight person could not?
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Femmes are usually queer women, though any queer person who embraces traditionally feminine speech, mannerisms, and dress might identify as femme.
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"After all, monosexual queer people can be biphobic too, which means that we're also silenced within the queer community," she adds.
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I'm currently seeing an excellent queer therapist at a practice that centers queer people—it even has trans and POC practitioners.
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As of now, there are no queer makeover shows for ladies in the queer community, and damn, do we need them.
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The Queer Eye star, 31, spoke exclusively to PEOPLE about his new tour — and how it differs from filming Queer Eye.
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Sweet, who considers herself a "queer world maker" aimed to reposition the painting's interpretation through her own lens of queer femininity.
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There's still a lot to be done in areas like sex education for queer teens and targeted queer harassment in outings.
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It's a new podcast from WNYC Studios, created by two queer co-hosts featuring queer stories from all arenas of life.
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TO: In a world where queer people can be arrested, killed, punished, or fired for being queer, safe spaces are vital.
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I remember my therapist saying that he had various queer clients, but that trans people were the queerest of the queer.
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When the historian of queer experience attempts to document a queer past, there is often a gatekeeper, representing a straight present.
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Now, I realize that real queer porn — at least, porn that's produced and filmed with a queer gaze — is rarely free.
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Their acceptance speeches showcased queer relationships and included meaningful calls to action; the shows they represented (often) told *real* queer stories.
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Another friend reminds me that to reclaim singlehood the way queer people once reclaimed "queer" is a means of seizing power.
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The protagonists are queer but the story isn't about being queer because to me, queerness isn't interesting; it's an old story.
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For years, he said he felt "invisible," both as a queer artist and as a Chicano artist within the queer community.
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Everyday undocumented queer Latinxs live in fear that any Latinx gathering, queer or otherwise, becomes another opportunity for an ICE raid.
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She might want to go to a space where she'll be able to fuck queer men, but chances are she might not know how to act as a straight person in a queer space—much less a queer space full of queer people who just want to fuck each other without being gawked at by Jessica from sales.
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Thanks to Instagram, there are so many queer and queer-friendly barbers out there, providing style tips, inspo, and role models to LGBTQ teens online (as well as 34-year-old adults who work for Mashable.) If you haven't heard, queer barbers are on the rise And queer barbershops are popping up in major cities all around the world.
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Upon realizing that Rowling never intended Remus to be read as a queer character, many fans argued that she had knowingly exploited a major issue within the queer community without allowing for any actual queer representation in her books.
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As a queer skater, I thought it was really cool to see something that was so in your face about basically saying, This is a queer skate zine and you're going to look at some things that are queer.
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Queer [kweer] | adjective (queer people) An adjective used by some people, particularly younger people, whose sexual orientation is not exclusively heterosexual (e.g.
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And even as queer people disperse from recognized gayborhoods, they cluster and form new gayborhoods in areas not traditionally mapped as queer.
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In fact, it's impossible to discuss camp without looking at the influence of queer folks, particularly queer and trans people of color.
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What if someone is an LGBT advocate and profits off of queer dollars, but won't claim a queer identity as their own?
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Many profiles of women I come across on Tinder are not queer women — or at least, they are not single queer women.
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The "queer" word was just horrible for us because if we were queer we were killed, thrown out, or disposed like trash.
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As a queer person, I'll say that approximately 100% of my romantic relationships and my friends' queer relationships originated in best friendship.
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The way I've found to open up that reading of queer imagery is by contextualizing explicitly queer moments within more mundane scenes.
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But as a queer person, I'm open to any kind of movie that (1) is queer (2) stars famous celebrities I know.
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There are so many examples of queer representation coming from non-queer filmmakers that tend to focus more on that clash too.
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In recognition of the new politicization of the queer in culture over the last ten years, Queer Eye has become overtly political.
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Queer people can now increasingly be in the mainstream, and the Buttigiegs's demonstration of that reality does not make them less queer.
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"It's important for us to avoid the sandboxing effect of limiting queer people to just speak about their queer identities," Picardi said.
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Nathalie Huerta, Founder and CEO of the Queer GymOakland, CaliforniaShe/Her/Hers VICE: What experiences led you to start the Queer Gym?
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Expressions of queer sexuality are often called "explicit," because queer and trans sex are both abject, outside of what is considered desirable.
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Ginny and Hermione also opened a queer door for Christina Orlando, a 31-year-old queer and nonbinary writer in New York.
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Goldberg delves into the professionalization of the queer artist and the institutionalization of "queer art," in programs such as the Queer Arts Mentorship, to suggest the ways in which positioning one's identity at the forefront has become a sales tactic.
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"Queer" can be used as an umbrella term for anyone not cis and straight — for example, a person might identify as both bisexual and queer — but a growing number of young people identify simply as queer, with no other label.
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My queer Catholic friends and I were distressed (though unsurprised) by the pontiff's explicit condemnation of queer people—queer people, mind you, who are looking to contribute to an aging Church that's trying hard to appeal to disaffected, pro-gay millennials.
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And that, dear reader, was my first full-blown realization that Billie is queer, making her the second Arkane protagonist this year who is a queer woman of color (if you play a woman character in Prey, Morgan is queer).
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While it's most often used to talk about masculine lesbians, butch can also describe masculine queer men or queer people of other genders.
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Ana: One way I've been trying to think about this is by shifting questions of queer authenticity—is someone really queer or not?
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I've often found that it's a bit of an anthem in queer spaces, especially in queer spaces that are welcoming to trans people.
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Kristen Stewart and Ellen Page are both A-list queer women, but none of their queer roles have landed them major award noms.
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Underground, queer-centric music scenes are incredibly validating: they have the power not only to forge support systems but to amplify queer discourse.
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And one of the most revealing aspects of Queer California is how it repositions lesbians as central players in queer history and art.
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For five years, the Debt Free Guys blog and the Queer Money podcast have been helping queer people live fabulously, not fabulously broke.
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You might find comfort in connecting with other queer folks, especially since identifying as queer might otherwise make you feel vulnerable or isolated.
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"The nature of the email exchange resonates with many queer academics, whose practices of queer intimacy are often baffling to outsiders," she wrote.
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With so many queer dancers on the scene, there isn't much of a noticeable distinction between queer and straight strip clubs in Portland.
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With the onslaught of queer cinema that invaded film festivals, the New Queer Wave forever changed the landscape of LGBTQ film to follow.
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It's not like we're there yet, or anything close—queer men, and especially queer men of color, are still ridiculously underrepresented in games.
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Crute will next appear in another queer role on the Netflix sci-fi dystopia series Daybreak, and yet there is a vast catalogue of queer actors who've played multiple queer roles who have chosen to remain publicly silent about their own sexuality.
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Now an event coordinator at Clockwork Queer, a DIY organization dedicated to throwing queer-centric shows, Roque credits his time at The Smell for inspiring the work he does today to help queer artists showcase talent they may not feel comfortable sharing elsewhere.
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Like The Smell, Pehrspace frequently offers LGBTQI artists a platform to share their works, hosting queer-centric functions like "The Mid-Shake: A Queer Sockhop" and events thrown by Coldworld, an organization that puts on pop-up queer dance parties throughout the city.
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If you're an out-gay or an out-trans or a queer actor, it's often a lot harder for you to land cisgender or heteronormative roles, so for that reason, it's important that the queer roles available are filled by queer people.
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Though our modern understanding of sexuality would have been completely foreign to them, early European immigrants experienced same-sex attraction just as we do today, and they had queer sex, entered queer relationships, and formed queer households in ways that are surprisingly familiar.
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More than a short-lived physical experience or explicit text exchange, cruising uplifts queer love by celebrating queer sex at its most joyfully deviant.
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" Jordan Crucchiola, a queer writer at Vulture, told VICE, "LGBT fans of the show are reading [the show] as queer… because it absolutely is!
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But that history and culture primarily serves as a backdrop for telling stories from a specifically queer — and, more specifically, queer of color — perspective.
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Between the loss of queer publication Into and the partial closing of AfterEllen, it's been a crushing few years for queer people in media.
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In fact, just as it's important to allow for queer readings of texts, it's equally critical to normalize the queer gaze on interpersonal relationships.
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Not all queer teenagers fall in love with their best friends, but at risk of angering the queer pundit class, many of us do.
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Hyperallergic is commemorating Pride Month by featuring one contemporary queer artist per day as part of a series, Queer Artists in Their Own Words.
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It's a challenge to take up space as queer women, especially with all the recent bar closings, and even queer-focused websites like AfterEllen.
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But for a movie explicitly centered on a queer romance, it barely feels queer at all—at least in the ways we're used to.
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If she appears in this many queer films and is this stunning and smart in person, she must be covertly queer, the argument goes.
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You can't simply call a party "queer"; there's actual work you have to do make a space welcoming, inclusive, and safe for queer people.
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Lex is a queer dating app for lesbian, bisexual, non-binary, trans, genderqueer, intersex, two spirit, asexual, and queer people — everyone but cisgender men.
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The setup was enshrined in Queer as Folk, one of TV's most influential queer series, and has been studied by a number of researchers.
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But viewers weren't too bothered about the duo being performatively queer in order to make money when actual queer people weren't given enough airtime.
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The exhibit explores the personal and material items that commemorate lesbian life, define queer identities, and serve as collective reminders of personal queer histories.
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Isobel isn't the lone queer character: her best friend Cam (Meredith Hagner) is a lesbian and Isobel's renters are everywhere on the queer spectrum.
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We talk, over Cokes of course, about the oddities of growing up queer and not knowing if you fit in with other queer kids.
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Queer parties and get-togethers are accessible on an invitation-only basis, and digital spaces have become havens for queer community and self-expression.
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And then there's a project I worked on, Queer Qrosswords, which is another pack of crosswords by queer constructors that benefits L.G.B.T.Q.-centric charities.
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Hyperallergic is commemorating Pride Month by featuring one contemporary queer artist per day as part of a series, Queer Artists in Their Own Words.
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The New Eagle Creek Saloon was deliberately created to be inclusive of queer elders, which is not always a common part of queer gatherings.
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They're going to be as loud, proud, and queer about it as they possibly can — and, of course, they'll use a queer wedding planner.
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Earl of Bushwick (Brooklyn, NY) Queer-y-ing the Arab: The Canary in the Freedom Mine Arab culture has always had a queer component.
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A lot of mainstream porn isn&apost necessarily made for a queer audience, with sites specifically made for queer people few and far between.
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I have a fear that instead of queer culture widening the scope of the mainstream, the mainstream will narrow the individuality of queer culture.
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Related: A 'Queer Enlightenment' at the World's First Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art A New Art Show Tracks Queer Life in Everyday Portraits Illustrator Draws Queer People of Color Doing Everyday Things Blood Mirror Shines a Light on the FDA's Gay Blood Ban
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The problems are that in casting straight actors in gay roles we're not benefitting from the experience that queer people bring to queer parts, we're not letting queer people tell their own stories, and we're contributing to the woeful lack of IRL Hollywood LGBTQ visibility.
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"I think for queer people who know drag from nightlife, clubs, gay cruises, theater and shows, it feels weird to see drag be made 'safe' and 'family-friendly' and marketed to children who are neither queer nor who understand the queer experience," Dracmorda explains.
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Though I'm a gay-leaning queer man, the first step toward reclaiming my sense of sexuality came when one of my friends, a queer woman familiar with my situation, casually introduced me to some bomb-ass lesbian-produced queer porn after brunch one Sunday.
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No, it's not really explicitly a queer movie (outside of the fashion, and maybe Ramon/Phreak, who may actually be queer in the text), but the fashion, the colors, the anarchic spirit, and every single thing about Angelina Jolie's performance is teasing queer identity.
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It would be a big step for the movie to show queer romance considering Marvel has run into minor controversies for cutting queer love scenes.
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If a nation hostile to queer people wanted to re-create similar technology, they'd first have to train AI on localized photos of queer people.
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Queer mentorship would be incredible, showing younger mentees that career paths are possible, that things are safe, and that there is queer leadership out there.
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Where once these straight-identified hustlers could move freely in and out of queer spaces, they were now defined by their association with queer men.
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She recently published a book, Semi Queer, which is a detailed ethnography that draws on interviews with 66 trans, queer, and other minority truck drivers.
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In his book Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity, José Esteban Muñoz writes about the affinity queer readers feel for the series.
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Growing up queer in the suburbs can make teens feel isolated; there are fewer resources, and fewer openly queer people to go to for support.
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Nelson, in her memoir about making a queer family, rejects the binaries that culture so often imposes: between normative and queer, between maternity and artistry.
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ES: Society has a lot of difficult believing that queer people can be victims, but it also cannot believe that queer people can be assailants.
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By the time Rowling outed Dumbledore in 19983, queer Harry Potter fans had already spent many years critiquing the books' queer subtext and lack thereof.
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Queer tragedy was a hit, and even after the end of the code, queer suffering remains at the center of many of our popular narratives.
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Do not enter queer or trans safe spaces without a queer person asking you to be there or without making sure that allies are welcome.
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With queer acceptance leading to a decline of "the stressful stigmas of same-sex sexuality," queer-specific advice and resources can now be identity-agnostic.
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I guess you can say that every Seder that I've attended are queer or feminist Seders, because most of my friends are queer or feminist.
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Courtney Trouble is a queer sex worker, academic, and artist dancing on the cracks of queer life and the adult industry since the year 2000.
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I wonder—because you brought up Canadian queer identity—is there anything that distinguishes Canadian queer identity from American, or North American queerness more broadly?
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We likewise deny that homosexuality, bisexuality, queer sexuality, trans identity, asexuality, or any other queer identity is sinful, distorted, or outside of God's created intent.
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She found Jeffrey through Black and Pink, a national organization that connects queer and trans people inside prison with queer and trans people outside prison.
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"As a queer person, there's a certain community aspect to being queer," said Adam Groffman, a gay traveler who runs the blog Travels of Adam.
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MB: They just need to have more queer people on next time because my gay behind wants to see queer love on the small screen.
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If you find yourself toying with making a joke that could be at the expense of a queer person or queer group, Nadal recommends reconsidering.
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MoMA's screening series "Now We Think as We Fuck": Queer Liberation to Activism argues for the inclusion of less respectable films in the queer canon.
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For two weeks, we exist as one dysfunctional queer family traversing the American countryside with our subversive glam, our books, our queer narratives and hearts.
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Self-labeled "queer street artists" are increasingly talking back against homophobia and claiming a share of ownership in public space through subversive and explicitly queer imagery.
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Shows like Xena or even Rizzoli & Isles have come under fire for using subtle nods to keep queer viewers interested, but never committing to queer characters.
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Little Joe isn't just about discussing the work of filmmakers whose work is queer on their own terms—sometimes you actively project queer readings onto movies.
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The words "first" and "gay" have a Pavlovian effect on many queer fans of pop culture, and even more so for queer fans of superhero stuff.
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Queer Eye for the Straight Humanoid doesn't have quite the same ring as 'Straight Guy,' and queer women aren't as well known for the sartorial sensibilities.
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That's not to mention that queer identity is often not obvious and visible, making it even harder to know who is LGBTQ outside of queer spaces.
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It also acknowledges how growing up queer means something different for everybody — and how being queer as a young person affects your queerness as an adult.
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RELATED:The Awesome Way Twitter Is Celebrating National Coming Out DayWhat Virginity Means To Queer WomenWhat It's Really Like To Be A Queer Teen In The Suburbs
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Read these stories next: The Most Unforgettable Queer Love Stories In Film The Hottest Movie Sex Scenes, Ever Do We Really Need Netflix's Queer Eye Revival?
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And with our publications folding, radical queer politics in decline, and gayborhoods bulldozed, it's easy to understand why some people think that queer culture is dying.
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And for Low and Tu, having a specifically queer show hosted by queer people means there's an opportunity to change the way media approaches LGBTQ stories.
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The fact that one out of every three coworkers and neighbors aren't totally fine with queer sexuality likely isn't a shocking statistic to most queer people.
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There's no biological difference in the eyeballs of queer men, nor do we any longer confine queer people on television to the role of bitchy stylist.
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All we see is that television shows are showing more queer characters now than ever, and that newspapers and magazines and websites are telling queer stories.
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It's a queer rom-com that never forgets Isobel's bisexuality, that features interracial flings, and that doesn't throw any of the queer characters under the bus.
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This episode was the best of the season, and fabulous representation for queer folks and queer women of color, as well as people of color generally.
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Queer fans and supporters showered love upon the series, which seemed committed to depicting queer relationships and female friendships in a routinely positive and empowered way.
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I wanted to make it very clear that these were queer parties; that even though everyone was welcome, it was a safe space for queer people.
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It was dedicated, as Hynes wrote on Instagram, to anyone who had ever felt not black enough, too black, too queer, not queer the right way.
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My first ever published puzzle was with Queer Qrosswords, a wonderful collaboration of folks from the L.G.B.T.Q. community, making queer-themed puzzles to support L.G.B.T.Q. charities.
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Like a lot of other queer millennials, fanfiction was my first introduction to queer sex and provided lessons that my sex ed teachers dare not speak.
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Netflix's "Queer Eye" took home the Emmy for best structured reality show, 14 years after "Queer Eye For the Straight Guy" took home the same award.
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As queer/bisexual writer Ashley C. Ford explains in her piece "I'm Queer No Matter Who I'm With," the sheer "un-catergorizability" of a bisexual/queer person makes others in our communities nervous and, as a result, we are forced into one lane or the other.
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For all the ways in which they open the door for a queer gaze on popular culture, they also shut out the parts of queer reality that don't fit their narrative; they obsess over — and in the process valorize — a queer experience defined by closets and repression.
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According to Aaron Tebrink and Jason Painter, one of the co-founders and current president of Queer Con, respectively, Queer Con had to take a break two years ago after Rio Hotel, which was hosting Def Con that year, began making trouble for the Queer Con attendees.
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That's a huge part of why Love, Simon is so important — and I'm hopeful the love and support queer romances have been getting lately will open the field for more mainstreamed queer and genderqueer rom-coms that allow queer people to participate in universal love stories.
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Meyers, who identifies as queer and prefers not to use gendered pronouns, shared a similar photo of the queer, polyamorous pair on their own social media account.
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Antoni is the food and wine expert on Netflix's new show Queer Eye, a reboot of Bravo's early aughts makeover show Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.
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This isn't me asking for queer characters who are hurt throughout the story, but for meaningful queer representation is a game with a modern setting and themes.
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Fifty years later, issues of police brutality, everyday harassment, and economic instability remain urgent ones to queer and trans people, especially queer and trans people of color.
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" If it doesn't take queer history into account, the Met's camp theme may end up being part of what Zhang describes as "the mainstreaming of queer culture.
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And why do queer comedians like her — all queer people, really — feel the need to repackage our memories of trauma for the sake of straight people's comfort?
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Made-for-TV Christmas movies are a fairly conservative genre, so seeing any queer representation â€" and representation of queer women of color â€" is mind-blowing.
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When the Queer Eye cast called Luna... John and Chrissy's adorable daughter got a video call from several celebrities, including Kenan Thompson and the Queer Eye cast.
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It's a move many find troubling, given the long history of violence on hyper-queer spaces and the realities of police brutality for queer people of color.
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So while it's great to see larger digital outlets expand their LGBTQ coverage, sites like Autostraddle continue to advocate for queer women's media, managed by queer women.
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I found a thriving underground queer nightlife that is giving young and older queer people around the country and world a place to explore who they are.
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To queer HP fans and allies, this logic is paradoxical: Rowling has paved the way for more queer characters and already knows it would make us happy.
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The queer liberation movement has long placed a primacy on autonomy, the notion being that queer people have the right to be themselves without fear of discrimination.
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While queer porn production companies are beginning to include a wider variety of queer performers into their films, one website is trying to change the paradigm entirely.
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As someone who identifies as both gay and queer—queer in the modern sense of rejecting binary thinking—I feel at home in its embrace of complexity.
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Femme-presenting queer people and drag performers often experience stigma, intolerance, and exclusion from queer nightlife communities and dating scenes that uphold "no fats, no femmes" policies.
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The term "femme" does not simply mean "feminine"; it is used in queer circles to designate queer femininity, in a way that's often self-aware and subversive.
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We need more transgender characters, more queer characters on the LGBTQ spectrum (nonbinary, asexual, intersex, pansexual), and more queer disabled characters, portrayed fairly and free of stereotypes.
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While fashion might have a longstanding tradition of being shaped by queer hands and minds, the reality of its relationship to actual queer bodies is more complex.
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My main characters are queer women, and because I've never associated being queer with emotional struggle, my characters' bodies are sites not of difficulty but of delight.
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And with queer couples, this often also involves helping them navigate a day spent with family members who may not be fully accepting of their queer identities.
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In particular, the praise and critiques both grapple with questions of what queer audiences, in particular, expect from their gay icons: Should their art be explicitly queer?
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It's coming back at a time when queer creators are being met with more encouragement to tell queer stories and explore different LGBTQ perspectives than ever before.
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This Saturday, Anthology Film Archives presents Representations of Leaving: Queer Death and Heavens, a program of experimental shorts focused on experiences of loss, rebirth, and queer utopia.
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One of the forces that drives her work is a desire to create representations of queer experiences to which even non-queer people can connect and relate.
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There are so many great queer arts orgs and institutions: Queer Art, Fire Island Art Residency, the Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, BGSQD, Participant.
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An activist chant at the time, popularized by Queer Nation and Act Up, stated the distinction with panache: We're here, we're queer, and we're not going shopping.
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My depiction of a Black, queer relationship in the videos I shot was one that was honest; queer relationships aren't all frolicking in a field of glitter.
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David Wojnarowicz is a cultural figure well-known by many queer artists and those interested in queer art, but less well-known in the larger cultural landscape.
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Related: Meet the Artist Quilting Flaccid Pink AK-47s 'The Garden of Earthly Delights' Gets a Queer-Feminine Overhaul Collage Portraits Explore Violence Against Queer Black Males
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Within the story, it was also a safe space for queer folks, keeping in mind an actual queer person who is part of the local homeless community.
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What's important to remember is that the LGBTQ community is not only large but incredibly diverse, and there's a huge difference between queer teens in the city and queer teens in the suburbs — and presenting a singular narrative on what "queer" looks like can be alienating for both groups.
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The film is filled with all things we queer ladies love about renegotiating and processing the self, including stories about creative self-reflexivity, attempts at discovering a queer history that could have been, the tenuousness of queer bestie friendship, and, of course, some hot lady-on-lady sex scenes.
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And although The Carmilla Movie feels like a huge lovefest, a celebration of queer narrative spaces and empowered queer women and the fan communities that support both, it's also rarely been clearer that simply having queer characters onscreen isn't a substitute for the traditional elements of good storytelling.
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I'm not a theological scholar myself, but I would say the adult Jesus bears a more than a passing resemblance to Queer Eye's extreme queer Jonathan Van Ness.
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Similarly contentious, the word "femme"—an identity that's historically been erased, ignored, and undervalued in queer and heterosexual communities alike—has made its way into non-queer circles.
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After years of not centering queer characters, and making some suspect cuts to queer-friendly scenes, audiences are eager to see Marvel movies match up to the books.
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"Something about [Drag Race] makes queer culture accessible to folks who don't necessarily fit into queer nightlife spaces and it offers them a welcoming hand," Sasha told me.
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Here are five things you can do to make yourself feel better as a queer person on this holiday — and how straight allies can support their queer friends.
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His distaste for the cliché of the unhappy queer also captures the show's flavor, as it centers marginalized (queer, brown) people without resorting to sentimental tropes about suffering.
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"Officials who handle these cases need to learn that queer people come from all kinds of backgrounds and experiences," says Marty Huber of Queer Base, an Austrian NGO.
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Instead, Queer California seeks to highlight too-often overlooked communities by examining, for example, transgender art and experience, or Indigenous queer culture of the past and of today.
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In the last case, the wonder came from putting my queer body in, around, or against another queer body to experience and affirm each other's very real desire.
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Mainstream gay rights organizations often depict the movement for queer liberation as dominated by white, cisgender men, and Stonewall as an anomalous, sudden explosion of inexplicable queer rage.
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I'm interested in capturing elder queer stories, and Devyn, as a photographer, has always wanted to do a kind of sweeping chronicle of queer life across the country.
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Simultaneously, I felt a competing pressure observing styles in the queer womxn community to dress more masculine to attract girls or present more queer to make flirting easier.
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"Drag in the past 40 years has been reserved predominately for queer people in adult queer spaces," Dracmorda, one half of the Boulet Brothers drag duo, tells Broadly.
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Importantly, that lack of coherence helps to destabilize the category of queer art, even while powerfully asserting the enduring importance of the voices and perspectives of queer artists.
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It's every queer kid's revenge fantasy, but what follows is every queer kid's reality: fight back, and you'll pay for it; the power does not belong to you.
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There's nothing wrong with having a meaningful queer experience in that sort of situation, either; that process is something queer players have likely been doing their whole lives.
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The festival's keynote, "Queer as in Fuck You: Under The Influence of Homocore," was a tribute to the queer anarchist punks who "set the stage for the conversations that eventually led to queer theory and changed the way we demonstrate and advocate politically," Bond said in an interview with Broadly.
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Basically, reading Angela call Mission Chinese Food a queer restaurant was about her claiming the space as a haven for queers—to work, to come to, but also acknowledging that it was a space built by queer folk, and feeling it important to name the queer community's contribution to the place.
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I think what has happened up until this point is that either queer people weren't in leadership positions on shows that had queer characters, or queer people were, but there are a lot of network hoops to jump through, or adjustments to be made, or ad space to be sold.
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We're putting that queer flag on the map, we're putting that trans flag on the map—we're ensuring trans, lesbo [sic], queer, women's histories are part of the agenda.
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Queer-baiting refers to the marketing technique in which creators use queer sexuality in a teasing surface level way rather than embracing it to get attention and make money.
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Netflix led the way, winning nine awards with their hit show, "Queer Eye," a reboot of the popular Bravo show, "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy," taking home four.
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"Leaving is expensive," says Samantha Allen, a trans reporter and author who chronicled queer and trans life outside of traditional coastal hubs in her new book, Real Queer America.
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This meant that even queer filmmakers had to either make their queer characters villainous or rely on stereotypes, rather than explicit romantic relationships, to make them recognizable to audiences.
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The result: YouTube, which claims to pride itself on inclusivity and frequently features queer creators in its own advertisements, doesn't pay its queer creators as well, if at all.
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In an extended study conducted just on queer vocabulary, the researchers found that 33 percent of the videos they tested with queer content in the titles were automatically demonetized.
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As part of a 2008 UCLA master's project called Queer Technologies, digital artist Zach Blas developed transCoder, a strictly conceptual "queer programming anti-language" in the form of bundled .
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It's the kind of conflicted, overarching story that queer women rarely get on TV, not to mention a crucial one to understand what it means to be openly queer.
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A queer identity embraces sexual and intimate relationships with males, females, and intersex people who identify as transgender, gender-queer, trans masculine or gay, just to name a few.
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Queer was a bad word initially, but now we are proud to call ourselves queer, and the same thing should happen with pussy, because pussy is the new dick.
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The truth is that these queer, brown victims lived (and died) as their authentic selves, and this queer, brown man couldn't help but feel deeply affected by their loss.
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I think it was also super hard because I was queer and trans and most other queer folks in their early 20s were totally getting wasted in the bars.
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Signature Moveis one of those movies that reminds us that queer narratives are still best left in the hands of queer filmmakers, and the same goes for diasporic narratives.
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But queer fans have spent decades culling clues from the appearances, contexts, and subtexts of characters and stories in order to glean queer icons wherever they can get them.
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As a queer fan of the series—one who even has Persona 20163 as their #2 game of the year—it often feels like Atlus hates its queer audience.
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Emerging against this heated backdrop, On Our Backs: The Revolutionary Art of Queer Sex Work at the Leslie-Lohman Museum presents art made by or about queer sex workers.
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But many retellings of Halloween's queer history are dominated by gay male narratives, so I'd never considered what crossdressing could mean to a cis queer black girl like me.
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As queer people pulled themselves up from the devastation wrought by the AIDS crisis throughout the 80s, LGBTQ artists found themselves ready to tell new kinds of queer stories.
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Every time I talk about being a queer Muslim in public, a young queer Muslim has come up to me and thanked me for being vocal and being out.
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Prince and Bowie were queer icons, but they were allowed to be queer icons with plausible deniability precisely because their music crossed over into more universal forms of rock.
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On "Queer Eye," a reprise of Bravo's "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy," which ran from 2003 to 2007, Mr. Porowski shares recipes that are useful for easy entertaining.
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For each installment, the hosts Kelsey Bailey, Patrick Keene, Steven Polletta and Kelley Quinn invite a lineup of all-queer performers to do improv inspired by a queer monologuist.
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" - Kathleen, 61 "Queer sex still counts, don't worry.
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One of TV's most famous queer female protagonists was born as the genre came into its own; Buffy the Vampire Slayer gave us Willow Rosenberg (Alyson Hannigan), Buffy's queer ginger sidekick, a character who singlehandedly shifted the landscape of queer women on TV. The O.C. lead Marissa Cooper (Mischa Barton) started dating a girl on the show in 2004—the first time many queer millennials saw a prominent on-screen lesbian storyline.
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"Ellen's characterization of Kevin's critics as haters shows that as a celebrity she's insulated herself from real concerns in the queer community, especially black queer people," Madison told BuzzFeed News.
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There's more queer representation among pop stars than ever before, with not one, two, or three of them shouldering the burden of getting all manner of queer representation just right.
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But queer men of color, queer women (of color or not), bisexual men, women, and non-binary folk, and transgender and gender non-conforming people need fluffy rom-coms, too.
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"I myself am a brown, queer woman, so for me it was very important that we didn't just give queer storylines lip service or do it for optics," Mejia says.
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In addition to needing to keep friendships alive because there just aren't that many queer people out there, a lot of queer women want to be friendly with their exes.
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So instead of "stories that are queer that are pandering to straight audiences," Revry seeks out shows, movies, music, and podcasts that are by, for, and about the queer community.
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AfterEllen wasn't just a small LGBTQ vertical but a whole site dedicated to queer women — and now it, like hundreds of other spaces for queer women, seems ready to disappear.
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It's hard to believe that Queer Eye — which is a reboot of Bravo's early aughts reality show Queer Eye For the Straight Guy — only debuted on Netflix in early 2018.
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While queer women have long been used as titillating tools for straight men's enjoyment onscreen, queer men have long been viewed as a threat to the heterosexual order of things.
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And for that reason, a lot of aces—not all, but many—identify as queer, or identify with the work of queer movements, and show up to do that work.
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And that might be the biggest reason that it's difficult to find queer porn filmed by actual queer people on free websites: Because the sites don't bother to poach it.
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"The most remarkable thing about queer urban culture is that it was, to a large extent, composed of and created by men who never thought themselves queer," Mr. Houlbrook wrote.
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WNYC's Nancy — self-described by its hosts as a queer podcast — devoted a whole episode to the linguistic evolution of the word "queer" from slur to tentative term of empowerment.
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"I love when queer clients see my shaved head and hairy armpits—they can totally tell I'm queer and give me the wink like they know what's up," said Iris.
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It's a bad time to be a queer woman on TV. Actually, looking at the statistics, it's never been a good time to be a queer female character on television.
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But, joshing aside ... Yes, we will cover queer lives and queer change, and we're willing to take the heat from anyone as we report where others might fear to tread.
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I try to pick up comics when I know they have a queer lead character or are written by queer authors, like Hazel Newlevant's Sugar Town or Tillie Walden's Spinning.
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Quite surprisingly, the latest addition to the series — Queer was published in February, concurrently with The Magazine — is the also one of the only anthologies on queer contents in art.
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Queer Cultural Center Founded in 1993, the Queer Cultural Center (QCC) is a community-building organization that fosters the artistic, economic and cultural development of the Bay Area's LGBT community.
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In fact, some members of the queer community reject the notion that Thanksgiving requires being kind to people who don't respect your queer or genderqueer identity. NO.You. Are. Not. Required.
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But I can't remember a single overt expression of queer solidarity — let alone any other self referenced queer identity besides ours coming from the ranks of CoLab — whether as a political group, an art enclave, or as a social community […] Were there any other queer members of CoLab besides me and Peter?
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The queer community tore "Seduced, Then Scorned" apart on Twitter, and for good reason; it's a smorgasbord of heteronormative assumptions about queer women, largely that we don't have platonic friendships with other women and are unable to separate our sexualities from our personalities, and that our feelings are less legitimate for being queer.
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A queer dance party walled off a security checkpoint to the inauguration A queer dance party walled off a security checkpoint to the inauguration Some Donald Trump supporters who woke up bright and early in D.C. on Friday encountered an unexpected scene on their way to the inauguration: a queer dance party.
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Being part of the queer community and having made a significant contribution to sex-positive queer imagery themselves, Volcano had their own methods, questioning gender norms and sexual taboos in their photography series Love Bites (1991), which was itself the subject of considerable censorship and controversy inside and outside of the queer community.
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Queer Feelings combats this visibility problem with nude portraits centering out queer and trans people with marginalized identities, taking extra care to include a variety of body types, shapes, and races.
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There aren't that many style blogs out there for gender non-conforming folks, so the best way to search out queer style is by scrolling through queer people on dating apps.
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In King's future China, queer folks have been designated as "Willfully Sterile," which sounds relatively progressive until it's revealed that the designation means queer people are deemed unfit to be parents.
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In reality, The Missing is a stunning queer narrative about the brutality of trying to become who you are, and an argument for why painful, violent stories about queer existence matter.
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"It's weird to me that he had to have that wink-nod conversation with an interviewer about her being queer, when she was coding really queer, and clearly was," Machado says.
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And while I was unable to find a therapist who was both queer and a person of color, I have a great relationship with my current therapist, a queer white woman.
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Cabán, who identifies as queer, noted that she felt it was a "really, really powerful thing to be running as a queer Latina" during the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots.
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The power of queer friendships has been researched and theorized about at length, and for good reason — the phenomenon of queer "chosen families" is often rooted in rejection by biological families.
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" He told the gathered activists that if they were to speak one on one, "queer to queer," he bets "there'd be a lot more we agree on than we disagree on.
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Sorry, conservative moms, it wouldn't be a queer conspiracy theory listicle if it didn't include Oprah and her potentially queer, maybe not so platonic, relationship with her best friend, Gayle King.
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Panels like "Black and Queer in Pop Culture" examined the absence of Black queer characters, while "Afrofuturism: Black to the Future!" examined the opportunities available to creators of color in Hollywood.
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" Todd notes that this is especially true in queer relationships, because "being in queer community by virtue pretty much guarantees running into those whom our hearts still hold some charge for.
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The opening is preceded by a group show, which opened October 1 at New York's Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, a queer bookstore located in the city's LGBT Community Center.
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In 2016, the year of Bury Your Gays, it's refreshing to see series creators—most often queer women themselves—eschew this trope by refusing to kill off their queer female leads.
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The omission — or dare I say the erasure — of Sulkowicz's queer identity indicates the public's continued unwillingness to reckon with the notion that queer people can be victims of sexual violence.
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As a queer woman who grew up with a general lack of queer female storylines on TV, I'm happy to see that young adult television is portraying these stories at all.
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To queer fans familiar with this practice, it made complete sense that a clever writer like Rowling would insert subtextual clues to queer her kid-friendly books while avoiding outright controversy.
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Queer female relationships were never explicitly illegal in Canada or America, likely because we have always been heavily sexualized and not seen as valid, or as revolutionary as male queer relationships.
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" Prior to the album's release, Hynes announced on Instagram, "My album is for everyone told they're not black enough, too black, too queer, not queer the right way … it's a clapback.
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Watching a tidal wave of queer critique destroy a masculine space was always the best part of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, even when you knew you should feel bad.
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And Gentleman Jack, while beautiful to gaze at, is a show with an agenda: It wants to tell a queer story, in a time more open and receptive to queer stories.
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Today, some LGBTQ millennials want more inclusive spaces that don't involve alcohol or a dance floor, while others are bringing back queer nightlife as iconic queer spaces close in major cities.
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Femme-identifying women, for example, may practice queer flagging, using an item of clothing or other subtle signifier as a symbol for queer identity, recognizable only to those in the know.
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It's not entirely worth forfeiting, though—especially because it is still too rare that there are comedies centering around queer women, and even rarer there is a queer Asian woman protagonist.
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Like all queer women, I'm constantly disappointed by movies that don't explicitly define obviously queer characters as such—like Kate McKinnon's Holtzmann in Ghostbusters or Donald Glover's Lando Calrissian in Solo.
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In addition, the number of queer women on broadcast and cable programs actually dropped this year, due in part to "a very deadly year for queer female characters," the report noted.
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Whether that's supporting a marginalized person's crowdfund to move out from an unhealthy housing situation or donating money to a queer activist group, money can make or break queer people's stability.
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TIMES INSIDER I'm working on a book based on my Times article, "Queer Love in Color," a celebration of the joy and romance that queer couples and families of color share.
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Astrology is incredibly popular among the LGBTQ+ community, so much so that earlier this year, Vice UK released a guide to the "astrology queer" subculture, and in 2018, queer publication them.
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"It's still illegal to be queer in 70+ countries and [remains] culturally unacceptable in the majority of the world," said Meg Ten Eyck, a queer public speaker and LGBTQ travel expert.
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Elektra KB's photo series "Queer Alterations for a Post-Nuclear Kin" (2020) is one of several works in the exhibition focusing on queer, trans, and gender nonconforming experiences of reproductive health.
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LGBTQ shows are no exception; we've seen the return of Will & Grace, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, and now The L Word; soon Queer as Folk is coming back too.
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" Queer Eye's Tan France also commented, "You're the cutest!
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Transmisogyny – Racism – Gentrification – Queer Antagonism – Devaluation of Feminist Discourse.
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Who goes there: Primarily — but not exclusively — queer travelers.
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Queer Eye won't be the same without its mascot.
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" "Did I ever offhandedly use the term 'lispy queer'?
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" With their column, Queer Reviews, Enriquez says they want to create a resource and platform for others in the queer community who are seeking honest recommendations for quality products or experiences that "maybe aren't necessarily queer, but fit us really well, have good ethos, and don't want to splash a rainbow flag on everything.
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We know that within trans and queer communities - especially trans and queer communities of color - there has been a festering resentment of HRC's narrow agenda and prioritization of cozying up to corporations.
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One in particular, titled "San Junipero," has stolen the hearts of viewers, particularly queer female watchers, for its romantic, and hopeful happy ending, a rarity on Black Mirror, and for queer characters.
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Sure, it's nice for queer women to run a company, but it's even nicer when their mostly queer, trans, and female workforce have a say in the working conditions at that company.
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Instead, the films are so tunnel-visioned on what it means to be a queer kid who's coming out, they lose sight of just what it means to be a queer kid.
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Fauxmosexuality may finally be on its way out, but now, rather than (rightfully) excoriating Katy Perry for faking it, we're chastising queer artists for not being believably, consistently, or academically queer enough.
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Optimists believe gay superstardom is only a matter of time, given the growing demand for not only queer actors but queer writers and directors to be able to tell their own stories.
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But in the last year, we've already had two "fluffy" queer movies about gay, white men figuring their sexuality out, falling in love, and telling their friends and families that they're queer.
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Yet beyond this "male gaze", a "queer gaze" has also run in parallel, albeit in a coded or hidden form; "Queer British Art" fleshes out the ways artists expressed these forbidden sexualities.
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When he actually ventured into truly controversial territory — noting that isolated queer teenagers might find affirmation of their identity in relationships with more experienced queer adults — the community swiftly cut him loose.
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" Although Hungama serves as a refuge for queer Asians, Ryan insists that the night transcends beyond being simply a queer brown space: "It's about people coming together unconditionally and accepting each other.
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Moreover, the spokesperson said the site tests its algorithm updates against a number of channels with queer content in an effort to ensure that its demonetization bots aren't disproportionately affecting queer content.
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Related: A Harrowing Installation Pays Tribute to the Lives Lost in Orlando 115 Portraits Capture the Queer Sexy 70s A 'Queer Enlightenment' at the World's First Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art
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One of Pelliccione's goals was to put a variety of queer narratives together in one easy-to-find place, something he said he hasn't found in other media brands, queer or otherwise.
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"As a queer Muslim immigrant person who survived a war, the last thing I want is a queer person being the person launching the bomb at me and my family," they said.
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Thanks to Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, Jonathan Van Ness' round-the-clock Instagram stories, and ice skating demigods like Adam Rippon, queer men are having their moment in the spotlight.
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And though the struggle to see acceptance of queer Muslims is ongoing, a growing movement of contemporary art from queer Muslim and Islamic perspectives is helping to bridge the two worlds today.
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We need to see queer people as superheroes, so every kid watching can see themselves save the world, and for every fearful viewer who might otherwise think of queer people as alien.
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Calling something "queer"—or using any number of queer buzzwords or aesthetic identifiers in your party promo—comes with a certain level of responsibility to live up to what the term encompasses.
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She tells Broadly that because communities of queer women tend to be "objectively very insular," the visual language of memes and social media platforms like Instagram lend themselves to online queer community.
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In 2014, I took to Twitter to engage with RuPaul about how the word "tranny" leaves queer bodies vulnerable to this kind of violence, appealing to our position as black queer creatives.
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On the song "Bad Boy," you have a lyric, You might call me a queer/ You might call me a freak, which has always made it a queer protest anthem to me.
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As a more masculine presenting lesbian—and a female who lifts weights—Campbell challenges society's assumptions about how queer (and non-queer) females work out, what they wear, and how they look.
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The cinema hosts the Molodist festivals, DocuDays, KROK, Odessa International Film Festival, as well as a Queer film festival called Sunny Bunny, one of the largest Queer film festivals in Eastern Europe.
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It perpetually relegates queer identity to the celluloid closet and then is baffled when queer people wind up identifying with horror film villains and writing fanfiction that recasts straight characters as gay.
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As concepts of queer identities evolve, Alyza Enriquez, a social producer at VICE, says finding well-made products that meet the needs of the queer community can sometimes be a balancing act.
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We have to admit that queer discourse is not as inclusive as we might want, and that some who have made meaningful contributions to queer history are not mentioned in our stories.
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But once the momentum of this expansion fades, will Leslie-Lohman deliver on its promise to become a queer space for everyone, even those who feel at the margins of queer life?
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Torrent Tea: Queer Space and Photographic Futures, a new group exhibition featuring four queer artists of color—Devin N Morris, E. Jane, Rafia Santana, and Texas Isaiah—at the Newspace Center for Photography in Portland explores how the current generation of artists of queer and trans experience are imaging themselves and their communities through photography online.
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Which, really, is the Castro in a nutshell: More than just a "gay movie theater," this was a place that accepted gay filmgoers, knew how to program queer and non-queer cinema for a queer-leaning audience, and gave older stars a venue to thank their gay fans, like Debbie Reynolds did at an event in 2005.
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And Black Panther got flack from the LGBTQ community for creating a fictional black fantasyland with no queer people, and cutting a scene that had some flirty queer vibes between Okoye and Ayo.
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DR. FRANKIE: I really, really hope there's a big takeaway for viewers across the country, whether you're queer or straight, to become better straight allies and better understand people in the queer community.
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In getting to know these characters, fans bore witness to the unique struggles of queer youth: Characters faced unsupportive families, anti-queer violence, and internal battles with confronting their sexuality, amongst other issues.
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Perhaps the best episode of this season's Queer Eye was the one where Antoni pretends that a hot dog can be gourmet the Queer Eye cast made over one of their fellow gays.
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And though it has queer characters and a great queer love story, there's still so much left to be done with Kat's realization that she is not as straight as she once believed.
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It's not always OK if a straight white woman writes the story of a queer Indigenous man, because when was the last time you heard a queer Indigenous man tell his own story?
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And while we marched, I couldn't help wondering where all these queer townsfolk came from, and where they were when I needed a good, queer role model during the 90s and early 2000s.
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It also acknowledges that queer fans are used to being erased, and have been trained by decades of media to extrapolate queer subtext from canonical narratives that refuse to openly acknowledge their existence.
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While GLAAD released the data that a third of straight people feel uncomfortable with queer people to show how much discrimination queer people still face, it also unintentionally focuses on the straight people.
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It doesn't mean very much if Phillips allows a queer person to buy a birthday cake; the queer person has to hide any public evidence of his queerness in order to receive service.
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And "queer" has come to serve as a linguistic catchall for this broadening spectrum of identities, so much so that people who consider themselves straight, but reject heteronormativity, might even call themselves queer.
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The announcement of Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City is the latest indication that the age of queer media created by queer people has only just begun—but that, at last, it's here.
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Because a queer person played a huge role in creating the bedrock of American youth culture, which is rock 'n' rolll, is why we see these queer expressions resurrect routinely in the culture.
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It's amazing that there are queer elders and queer children who are active and visible agents of change, and that there has been so much language, organizing and community built around trans sexualities.
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Mr. Hemphill, who was one of the many queer creators lost in the AIDS epidemic, remains an instrumental figure in gay American letters and in the lives of queer black artists at large.
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Anyone who pays lip service to something that sounds nice but is meaningless, like that queer people have a right to exist or something, is avoiding actually supporting the lives of queer people.
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There was something queer about being single: queer in the sense of "strange," yes, but also in the sense that connotes a threat to the conventions around which most people arrange their lives.
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"Our queer communities are embracing food more explicitly and intentionally and creatively," said Ora Wise, the culinary curator of Queer Anga, an L.G.B.T.Q. wellness collective in which movement practice and food rituals intermingle.
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Invalidating someone's sexual experiences is the opposite of the supportive sex positivity that you'd expect from inside the queer community, and it contributes to many bisexual folks' struggles of not feeling queer enough.
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"People were queer in your day and before your day, and they'll be queer after your day," says Raven Baker, Unbothered's associate social media editor, on this week's episode of Go Off, Sis.
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Experiencing the art of this many queer Chicano/a artists simultaneously will help the community fill in historical gaps and serve to spark a dialogue about queer history that should not be forgotten.
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Then I hit PANSEXUAL (more and more I'm trying to incorporate queer-themed language into my themelesses to expose solvers to aspects and identities within the queer community) and was a happy man.
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Yet, as the scholar Heather Love has argued, much of the early work in queer studies purposefully focused on celebrating the happy and courageous moments, ignoring the darker aspects of the queer past.
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Watch the full trailer for Queer Eye season 2, below.
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"Honestly, I love connecting with other queer artists," said Cimoroni.
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But that was my first introduction to queer sexual experience.
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That queer stories should be soft, and optimistic, and kind.
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I'm sort of just like, queer the text, you know?
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But there isn't funding for queer art in this country.
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As she plays, Cetine responds to messages from queer viewers.
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How many windows look onto these scenes of queer embrace?
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Whatever it was, something about Darlene spoke to queer women.
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"As queer people, we are creating our future," said Tiq.
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Both seasons of Queer Eye are currently streaming on Netflix.
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I've had queer women tell me that it didn't matter.
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Traverse City, Michigan, threw its first queer prom last month.
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Season 2 of Queer Eye is streaming now on Netflix.
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Please check in with your queer and trans friends today.
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For many queer professionals, the workplace poses a serious gauntlet.
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You don't need to be queer to identify with that.
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Season 3 of Queer Eye arrives on Netflix March 15.
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Queencore is the intersection of queer, queening, and hardcore. Sometimes.
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And I mean 'queer' in more of a universal sense.
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But Queer Eye love is in the air this week.
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Ahead, updates on the rest of the Queer Eye contestants.
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Houston's epicenter for queer life got its start in 1911.
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That's not the kind of queer gossip I'm talking about.
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So queer men experience London as a hostile, straight environment?
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It's about finding humanity in history as a queer person.
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Imagine if Queer Eye took their progressive conceit even further.
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He is queer, and refreshingly, this is a complete nonissue.
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Girls who were black and brown and poor and queer.
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You're the only single one in the "Queer Eye" group.
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But overarchingly, it's the story of a new queer future.
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For now, however, these queer connoisseurs seem here to slay. ●
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Either way, the pool for queer women is the smallest.
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You just have to watch Queer Eye to find them.
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It's a golden age for queer characters in comic books.
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Season 3 of Queer Eye premieres March 15 on Netflix.
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Being queer does not mean you have to be alone.
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Transgender people may be straight, lesbian, gay, bisexual, or queer.
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The queer joy, in particular, has felt revelatory to me.
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At the time, she affirmed my burgeoning queer aesthetic sensibilities.
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This is every queer couple navigating holding hands in public.
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Welcome to the queer club, we're stoked to have you.
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Fear not, queer women and the humans who like them.
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I liked that it showed the diversity of queer culture.
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Time to watch the Queer Eye Season 3 trailer again.
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These dissenters proudly call themselves gay or queer or bisexual.
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Our queer community spaces are closing due to corporate gentrification.
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Season 3 of Queer Eye is currently streaming on Netflix.
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I feel queer in the city, obviously, all the time.
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Historically, the context of most queer narratives has been urban.
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There's something about astrology that's always been, well, kinda queer.
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There is a queer community in Lawrence, but it's growing.
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It's never been a better time for a queer bachelor.
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He's here, he's queer, and he could theoretically be single.
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I don't understand what a gay or queer sensibility is.
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I have lots of queer friends, even two transgender people.
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My fellow queer writers had seen me coming for years.
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Season 3 of Queer Eye will hit Netflix in 2019.
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In the UK, I was exposed to openly queer folks.
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But what does it have to do with queer activism?
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When Brooklyn Was Queer: A History, Hugh Ryan March 5
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It's a feeling most queer people face at some point.
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Men, especially queer men, have long been padding their asses.
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Season 2 of Queer Eye debuts June 15 on Netflix.
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OG 'Queer Eye' cast member Carson Kressley seconds that emotion.
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Both accounts share photos of birds that are aesthetically queer.
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I'm a queer, fat, slime girl witch from outer space.
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We want to show that queer people can be strong.
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But queer people in Alabama may soon face additional challenges.
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Transgender stories used to entertain only trans and queer audiences.
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For one, they're incredibly racially diverse and include queer couples.
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Remember, in the queer community, sex isn't as strictly defined.
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Tell that to every dorky queer Olympics fan I know.
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It's still hard to discuss queer women without sexualizing them.
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I also guess I won't be watching queer eye anymore.
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But the concept of the "queer eye" itself has changed.
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Perhaps, this Queer Eye reunion can become an annual thing?
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The third season of "Queer Eye" will debut in 2019.
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This time, however, members of the queer community fought back.
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Heavenly Creatures (1994) served the queer goth community particularly well.
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The radical power of "queer" always came from its inclusivity.
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More important, queer Muslims are marginalized if not simply invisible.
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" Meha Srivastav on "When Everyone Can Be 'Queer', Is Anyone?
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But Lars, he's more like 'Queer Eye' for the junkyard.
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Netflix's Queer Eye is the gift that keeps on giving.
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"I [have] just become this queer Muslim woman," Imani says.
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VICE: How did the idea for Queer Letters come about?
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Pose turns on the axis of the queer chosen family.
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It's very easy for bands to market themselves as queer.
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People want you to be queer in their guidebook fashion.
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Before, queer art was nonsense and sinful, now it's fashionable.
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We talk about giant robots, queer bodies, and utopian ontologies.
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Even in queer communities, femmes are often invalidated or overlooked.
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How is the food like at a queer feminist Seder?
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And what are the extremes of queer sex and fetishism?
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And it's not impossible to find queer and trans pastors.
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LGBTQ centers specialize in issues related to the queer community.
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Queer means lots of things to lots of different people.
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But does initiating straight people into queer culture dilute it?
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Queer Muslim voices in this debate are the most important.
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Coming out for young queer Muslims isn't always an option.
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Cruising is part and parcel of gay and queer DNA.
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The internet loves to swoon over "Queer Eye's" Antoni Porowski.
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The Phluid Project is a new kind of queer space.
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Ms. Marinoni would be the state's first queer first lady.
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And "Queer Eye" reboots on Netflix for a new generation.
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Similarly, Sánchez's identity as a queer woman cannot be overlooked.
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"We need queer art to make it normal," she said.
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QUEER TAKEOVER!' at the SVA Theater (June 22, 8 p.m.).
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Throughout the AIDS crisis, you salvaged queer art from destruction.
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I am queer and hope to finally get equal rights.
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Most spaces accommodate queer people but aren't designated that way.
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Is there enough support for queer artists where you live?
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Prince wasn't merely a voice for marginalized or queer communities.
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The reason, in coded language, was that I was queer.
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Discharges of queer military personnel actually went up after DADT.
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Being a sober queer has its own set of problems.
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The term created a movement within the Māori queer community.
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As a queer woman, could she lean into them wholeheartedly?
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A celebration of brash boys, queer love, and Latinx culture.
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The isolation of my queer youth was about to return.
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Also starring in the trailer was Queer Eye's Karamo Brown.
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We'd see queer people casting aside conventional modes of gender.
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Being queer means "pushing against cultural assumptions" of the norm.
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This monthly improv show puts queer comedians front and center.
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And a new season of "Queer Eye" streams on Netflix.
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Queen Latifah and Janelle Monae are openly queer and, gasp!
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Neither did anyone else in my immediate queer friend group.
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The special season of Queer Eye was announced in January.
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"Queer" has generally regained a neutral or even positive connotation.
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Of course, Forster's characters weren't queer in the modern sense.
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A queer reading of the character all but suggests itself.
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Queer and fat users were also pushed out of view.
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Queer plots are often barely submerged beneath the narrative surface.
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Four episodes of "Queer Eye" were also set in Japan.
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"I don't go to queer spaces anymore," she told me.
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FORBIDDEN: UNDOCUMENTED AND QUEER IN RURAL AMERICA (2016) 8 p.m.
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Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano L.A. runs from Sept.
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America's queer center of gravity is moving toward the middle.
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"It comes from me, so it is queer," she said.
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We are still the queer dysfunctional family you dream about.
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What do you think about queer women pursuing straight ones?
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Does not being queer yourself make it harder or easier?
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Queer people have seen enormous progress over the past decade.
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What happens to black queer bodies when the world ends?
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That makes dating much trickier for queer people of color.
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Not for the audience that willfully attends a queer play.
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His jokes made the world more dangerous for queer people.
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"For queer people, there's this freedom of expression," she said.
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Swery is not an openly queer creator, but through consultation and work with various queer people and a desire to tell a story that accepts people where they are, he and White Owls Inc.
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The original world created by Maupin delved into queer and trans lives in San Francisco, and the upcoming Netflix adaptation tells a new set of queer stories in the same city, updated for 2019.
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" Neesha 31, queer, non binary, Atlanta, GA, freelance writer and nonprofit consultant "There are few job opportunities for me as a working-class, Black, queer, non-binary writer and nonprofit worker in the South.
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This commercialization does not make a lot of space for queer individuals: Hallmark currently makes a significantly lower number of cards geared towards queer couples versus the hundreds of other options for heterosexual folks.
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It makes sense that as filmmakers have made haphazard progress with telling queer stories, it has been tantalizingly easy to keep exploring how LGBT people — especially queer teens — grapple with how to come out.
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At the time he made his comments, Senator Enzi seemed to think that outwardly existing in the world as a queer or trans person is enough to excuse violence against queer and trans bodies.
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So I can't help be simultaneously thrilled that this season's Queer Eye for the Straight Guy has received such a hero's welcome and a little selfishly sad that I don't see queer women represented.
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Below, we've talked with Andrews about the inspiration behind the project, the power in helping queer people see themselves as they want to be seen, and why the world needs to see queer joy.
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School should always be a place for queer students to be themselves and it should be a place that's open and affirming to anyone who walks through their doors, especially queer and trans youth.
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The show depicts queer Latinxs as human already, eliminating the need to "humanize" issues of immigration, race, gentrification, class, and violence in border and queer communities so that white audiences can understand and sympathize.
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The passing impact this graphic can have on a young queer person or the people with whom that queer individual will interact can have a huge impact on shapng their opinions, experience, and safety.
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The idea that a queer woman (let alone a feminist) could be capable of sexually harassing a queer man is virulently resisted by these scholars who see gender as an unflinching marker of agency.
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Though queer people have always sought out certain areas to find comfort and community, with perhaps the most visible examples being queer bars and clubs, we have never truly had safety in these locations.
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On June 8, Hugh Ryan, the founder of the Pop-Up Museum of Queer History, will share his research on the queer histories of the Brooklyn Waterfront in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Some say that demanding physical expressions of sexuality or other concrete confirmations of queer relationships from creators creates a higher bar for queer romance than straight romance and can erase subtler, more complex relationships.
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"Certainly for queer folks, the queer community who watched the movie and wanted more I wanted to give them a lot more of that experience, because it is worthy to be seen," Simien said.
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There are a multitude of queer Arab experiences: from gender rights activists providing underground abortion services to long romantic partnerships between Bedouin men in Siwa, each queer life in the Arab world is unique.
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Queerbaiting is a term for when a piece of media hints at characters' queerness—presumably to attract queer viewers—but it is never made explicit, and leaves those queer fans with lack of representation.
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It's a reboot of the mid-2000s broadcast television show Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, with a new lineup of queer guys who use their individual expertise to make other guys' lives better.
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We must funnel our time and energy into manifesting a lesbian reboot of The Mummy, which is already a pretty queer franchise, as it features Weisz and curses, two things that are canonically queer.
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" Lila echoes Jenny's sentiments, adding, "I hope that this also opens opportunities for women of color, trans women, queer men, queer women also have their stories heard because they're equally if not more important.
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Queer female ruggers, like their non-queer teammates, nonetheless embrace rugby as a channel to challenge, define, and embrace their own understanding of what it means to be both a female and an athlete.
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But I will, like many other other queer Catholics, defend my God-given right to pursue our faith in the hopes that future generations of queer people will somehow benefit from our dogged persistence.
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She is setting up Queer Security Services (QSS), an agency with a queer, trans and gender non-conforming team that will supply venues with bouncers or train venue staff to do their own security.
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"If we hear a straight person gets a queer part because someone is a bankable star, we've just lost another chance for that person to make a name as a queer person," says Nick.
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A 2016 survey of over 3,000 queer women by the LGBTQ+ dating app Her found that over one-third of lesbians and over half of self-identified queer women felt excluded at Pride events.
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The event is among a small but growing list of efforts recognizing and supporting queer Muslims throughout the country, many of whom face homophobia in traditional Muslim spaces and Islamophobia in conventional queer spaces.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads The Queer Biennial is a month-long series of events showcasing artists, performers, and writers from across the queer spectrum including cabaret, music, dance, visual arts, and literature.
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While it's absolutely true that bygone queer eras and their imagery remain under-recognized and under-documented in the larger culture, the frequency of their appearance in contemporary queer art exhibits can feel cliché.
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Michael R. Jackson's subversive sermon on the conflicted heart of a Black, queer man writing a musical about a Black, queer man details an artist's fight against society's expectations of what he should be.
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But while some old masters fetishized the male body in barely coded ways, the idea of an openly queer artist expressing his desires from a queer perspective was only born in the last century.
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Art Review The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, which has a lively show called "Found: Queer Archaeology; Queer Abstraction" on through the fall, is itself an archaeological project of many layers.
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The only queer and trans characters were either villains BECAUSE they were queer and trans or the show went out of its way to deny them any sort of happy ending, or even closure.
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The powers that be figured out that queer money is as green as everyone else's, and it's within this increased purchasing power that some queer people are experiencing upward mobility and increased social acceptance.
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The night will be capped off by "an informal social hour" and a performance by artist Chris Berntsen that combines a personal queer archive from the 1970s with the artist's own contemporary queer imagery.
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One of this season's cast members is Kai Wes, a self-described "jack of all trades" whose creative work has focused on making queer content and elevating the voices of queer and trans people.
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Or the elderly man who spoke on behalf of advocacy group Queer Ontario and voiced concern about the heightened need for privacy among the queer community and the unique pressures they face from police.
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While the queer street art movement has a good deal of allies and support in Europe and other parts of the world, to this day, American queer street artists rarely receive commissions for public murals.
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While the world of VR is still severely lacking in queer content, some queer women have taken to adult games like Honey Select, which allows them to customize every minute detail of a virtual woman.
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For young, queer youth to see other queer folks that are kind of pushing the envelope and being themselves and being confident and brave — I hope that they will be role models for these kids.
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"There are a lot of very diverse queer narratives being told on the show, and so it made sense to me to be sure that there was a diverse array of queer voices," she says.
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"In a statement to Mic, Blanco said, "It is exhausting that as a queer artist not only do I experience homophobia in the entertainment industry, but also censorship for the unapologetically queer imagery I promote.
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One of the reasons I might not often find myself around other people who are prone to diet and body-negative talk is that I'm queer, and friends with a lot of other queer people.
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Whether it's been semi-closeted actors adding a queer flair to their character, or a director adding queer subtext to a film, or the audience creating fanfic once the work is out in the wild.
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For queer people — especially queer people who have lived in the parts of the US where country music dominates the airwaves — this attitude is not just a way of life, but a means of survival.
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In anticipation of season 2 of Queer Eye and National Pride Month, Betty Who takes on the classic Queer Eye theme song "All Things" and kicks everything up to an 11 in a colorful spectacle.
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Olga Baranova, a human rights activist with the Queer Women of North Caucasus Project, was forced to flee Russia herself after becoming a target for Chechen authorities while evacuating a queer woman from the republic.
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But, once NBC was done closing out The Great Jack Pearson Death Mystery, Netflix premiered its brand new reboot of Queer Eye For Straight Guy, now shortened to the cleaner Queer Eye, on February 7.
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As an artist, Ruiseco-Lombera works to prevent a similar erasure of the Cuban LGBTQ community by creating archives of queer Cuban history and culture, as this series, Añoranza: Portraits of Trans and Queer Cuba.
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Women superheroes like Wonder Woman, who is queer in the comics, and Valkyrie, played by Tessa Thompson, who really wanted her to be portrayed as bisexual, had their queer scenes erased from their respective films.
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The danger of overusing the word "queer," Goldberg argues, is that it upends its very intention to resist definition, while depoliticizing it and placing incredibly limiting boundaries around the expansive space "queer" purports to be.
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But trans women of color have held undeniable importance in the queer community, from being the force behind the iconic Stonewall rebellion to embodying some of the most intense struggle that queer people can experience.
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TO: I'm super pumped to get back on the campaign trail with a few queer politicians this upcoming election season — to help register young people to vote and hopefully help qualified queer politicians get elected.
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The video enlists an army of queer celebrities, from Laverne Cox andEllen DeGeneres to "Queer Eye" — which certainly helps to mitigate the accusations of self-interest — to celebrate same-sex marriage and colorfully condemn homophobia.
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Elsa's not canonically queer, but she's queer enough that it's not too difficult to imagine some little girl seeing Elsa as a kindred spirit, then following that feeling as far as it will take her.
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If all a therapist does is affirm a queer patient out of fear they'll shatter their fragile queer being with the first bit of criticism, that patient will never grow and develop as a person.
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A few years ago, they founded the Gay Ole Opry, the first ever queer country music festival, in Brooklyn NY and continue to organize quarterly queer country shows for a rabid fanbase in the north.
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Queerbaiting is especially pernicious because it not only perpetuates the celluloid closet, but also exploits the hopes of well-meaning fans and queer people who tune in to the narrative hoping for actual queer representation.
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" The country has emerging queer neighborhoods that act "as cultural archipelagoes.
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It's a queer lifestyle magazine published by the dating app, Grindr.
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Encourage HR to create a group for queer employees to connect.
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Spread the holy queer word for $3.95 per card on Zazzle.
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And that's a place some queer critics argue "femme" doesn't belong.
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Have you heard that Queer Eye returns on Friday, March 15?
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Both were queer as fuck, but not rigidly prescribed as such.
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Being queer in the public eye seemed more trendy than treacherous.
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Shows featuring LGBTQ characters, particularly queer women, disproportionately feature tragic storylines.
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He has appointed numerous judges who are vehemently against queer equality.
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"There's a new wave of queer artists taking over," Chia adds.
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" "What if you're queer and grew up in a religious household?
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Or stories from too many types of women (WOC, queer, trans).
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And this week I've felt it rawly as a queer Muslim.
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The magazine takes a queer look at street culture including skateboarding.
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Queer Eye was able to hold that mirror up for him.
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Basically, my character is a parody of the 'feminist' queer guy.
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There was no understanding of what queer and trans identities were.
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People are saying the word queer or LGBTQ in the media.
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I go to these queer Sephardic Shabbat dinners once a month.
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In the rest of the US, queer people remained largely closeted.
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And it's a threat that not all queer people face equally.
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Queer Eye is truly changing lives — maybe mine most of all?
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My photos are images of queer couples kissing at the vigil.
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For white queer folk, be better advocates for your black counterparts.
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I am empowered yet silenced as a queer woman of color.
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What do we want a queer-friendly world to look like?
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I don't know that she was queer but I think so.
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New York has substantial opportunities for queer artists but not enough.
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" "The Orlando tragedy is nothing new in terms of queer struggle.
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Talk to fellow white queer people about racism in our communities.
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There's even some intriguing queer subtext in Wednesday and Parker's relationship.
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Sônia Braga's incredible, queer alcoholic doctor matriarch character is also underutilized.
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Today, we prize queer visibility as a normalizing tool of equality.
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The university also cited her advocacy for transgender and queer rights.
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A follow-up show featured queer artists' responses to Mapplethorpe's work.
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We are majority queer, majority people of color, and majority women.
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There's no question that the world needs light-hearted queer movies.
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Warning: Spoilers ahead for season 2, episode 2 of Queer Eye.
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But the show also explores queer desire outside of that framework.
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Those five letters stand for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer.
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Add-on badges can be traced back to Queer Con 2015.
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We couldn't say we liked this other trans person, queer person.
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Thank you Tee for this glorious ode to queer Black love.
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But then again when I talk to friends--am I queer?
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Her queer Muslim girlfriend challenges her to think deeper about it.
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Are straight people allowed to just walk into queer sex parties?
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Porowski approached Queer Eye with trepidation, and the feeling was mutual.
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But for other queer Christians, God demands a life of celibacy.
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Which Queer Eye makeover star can you see wearing these underwear?
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She's queer, she's in a gang, and she's tough as shit.
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His characters, many of them queer, often speak past each other.
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Kibz is a Turkish, queer, transgender woman in her mid-20s.
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And for queer people, it acts as a moment of solidarity.
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This is how queer couples should always feel — celebrated and loved.
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Season 3 of Queer Eye arrives on Netflix on March 15.
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" Queer YouTube star Kaitlyn Alexander added, "Trans people are not burdens.
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New episodes of Queer Eye hit Netflix on Friday, June 15.
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Kiyoko dedicated the award to queer women of color like herself.
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Did you already listen to our latest episode of Queer Slam?
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What do you think about life now for young, queer kids?
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And as was reported before "The Pilot" premiered, Bill is queer.
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My queer friends have also had bad experiences dating other women.
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And I know how much direct harm that causes queer folks.
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Thorpe is hiding a secret: he is a closeted queer man.
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It's the one place queer people should feel ultra-safe, right?
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The Academy Awards are over, and they were honestly pretty queer.
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Queer Eye season 2 is expected to hit Netflix in 2019.
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Who else thinks Netflix should make a Queer Eye dating show?
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Any teasers you can share about Season 3 of Queer Eye?
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Macho City has been Detroit's queer dance party for years now.
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Babadook Is there enough support for queer artists where you live?
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So why don't ghosthunters ever seem to find any queer ghosts?!!
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Tell me which queer designers are exciting to you right now?
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According to the Human Rights Campaign, the Q stands for queer.
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Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States, Samantha AllenMarch 5
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The ad seems especially important for queer people in Australia now.
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Do you think queer artists of color can save the internet?
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Are there bars or clubs that are queer-friendly in Charlottetown?
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For many queer people, clothes are more than just external adornments.
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Overwhelmingly, that body is brown and black, female, queer, and indigenous.
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Whether you're straight or queer, dating, currently, feels not that great?
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As a black, queer woman, I'm not your typical financial regulator.
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I spend some time doing my nails and watching Queer Eye.
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But unlike other seasons, this year it's also very, very queer.
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If young people are the future, the future looks pretty queer.
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TNX aims to bring queer nightlife back to its underground roots.
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At La Revo, anarchists discuss everything from neoliberalism to queer theory.
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To all the young queer people who reject the gender binary.
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From one fellow queer to another, here's what you can expect.
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America in 2017 doesn't need Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.
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Ondi Timoner directs this biopic about legendary queer photographer Robert Mapplethorpe.
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Babadook. Is there enough support for queer artists where you live?
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Queer Eye's Jonathan Van Ness is celebrating his weight loss journey.
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And queer artists like the members of the band Shh... Diam!
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Did the musical aspect feel integral in constructing a queer narrative?
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Many of its most active leaders are queer women and feminists.
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"I'm queer," he says indignantly, sitting down on Josh's bare lap.
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"BYP100 works from what you call a "black queer feminist lens.
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Then Queer Eye came along depicting gay men as professional experts.
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On Netflix, Queer Eye isn't beholden to advertisers or a network.
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Katlego: It's a strange place to be openly queer for me.
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Waluigi from the Super Mario universe is a queer icon pic.twitter.
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Macie's green hair and cube glasses make her pretty fucking queer.
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If I was queer, I thought, people would treat me different.
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If you're a queer girl, you know what I'm talking about.
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Smith's poems expound a complicated and distinctly queer relationship to beauty.
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This was just the kind of man that Queer Eye helped.
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But what I found there never really felt queer to me.
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But, don't mourn the lack of queer porn on free websites.
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I end up not going to these queer, gay spaces anymore.
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Learn to make room for black and brown trans queer artists.
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He's also been doing a deep dive into queer YA literature.
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Start off pride season right by supporting your local queer haven.
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And is there anything better than a dysphoric countryside queer romance?
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In a funny way, it's like these lovely little queer pilgrimages.
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For queer women, this experience of clandestine love is nearly universal.
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You are not artistically pure for turning away from queer suffering.
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Because, shit, a queer woman of color could be harassing someone.
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Films featuring black queer characters are incredibly hard to come by.
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Part of being queer is learning to tune out the hate.
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I think that earned me a disentitlement from my queer legacy.
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We chat a little about the upcoming season of Queer Eye.
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But Lena Katina and Yulia Volkova weren't queer in real life.
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I, as a queer person, have experienced outward displays of hostility.
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I'm a faggot, I always preferred faggot to queer or gay.
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In traces of later videos, by other women and queer artists.
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This mirrors a pattern found in the queer community at large.
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Annie is a disabled, queer, Latinx intersectional activist based in Miami.
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This year had no shortage of unforgettable queer relationships on screen.
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"Being a queer, female artist is hard as hell," Craze says.
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Would you say your crowd is quite a young queer crowd?
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Asking for dance music that negates passivity brings together queer people.
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For me being queer was a tool for investigating this milieu.
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But when Ashdown saw the queer elements resonating, he doubled down.
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But I had never thought about it as decidedly queer television.
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Both had been a part of India's queer scene for years.
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Growing up, he never saw images of queer people of color.
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One feels she's been sidelined because she's female, black and queer.
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Also being queer and brown is in a way being punk.
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There was only one problem — he didn't know any queer Africans.
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I asked queer and lesbian cheesemongers what the queerest cheese was.
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This is how I would define most queer people I know.
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And then my friend was queer-bashed on the way home.
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How does race intersect with the narrative of queer British art?
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Members of Queer Youth Group, a gay rights organization in Nepal.
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Still, some audience members took issue with the queer sex scenes.
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I'd love to see the lead be a queer Muslim character.
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Many queer communities are still struggling for basic rights and recognition.
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A meme posted this week to the Queer Exchange MPLS-St.
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The show wrestles with charged dynamics found within the queer community.
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What can people who are concerned about anti-queer violence do?
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Queer creators found the changes seemed to affect them particularly hard.
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Yes, obviously, because both involved the mass killing of queer people.
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"And Berlin is a great city of queer happenings," she said.
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The 'Queer Eye' star was fortunate to have a safety net.
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Titanic is the hugest success, and it's because it's totally queer.
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Dickinson won some critics over with its carefreeness and queer storytelling.
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Being queer is about beautiful community, glittering otherness, and unapologetic love.
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America needs the Queer Eye men, even on late night television.
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Taken together, these works point to the queer potential of abstraction.
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Why does she see it as a "queer form of resistance"?
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H: What are your hopes for the future of queer cinema?
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I am a Black, African-British, fat, queer, and femme individual.
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Ramos's intersecting identities help queer Latinxs in Ministerio embrace their own.
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Anyway, Elsa from Frozen is queer, and I can prove it.
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I know precisely why Disney doesn't want to make Elsa queer.
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I've watched videos expressing queer pride, native pride, and ethnic pride.
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"Having a rescue plan is vital for queer couples," Wickell said.
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No one likes Mike & Ikes anyway, those goddamn candy queer baiters.
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For people who are queer and want to connect, fear not.
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We met newcomers, longtime customers, queer activists, and even an astrologer.
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Historically, Chinese society has neither recognized nor shunned its queer communities.
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We leave the party and take transit to a queer bar.
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Like his queer counterparts across town, his lip-syncing is flawless.
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They rightfully deserve their place in the history of queer cinema.
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Sports can still be an incredibly hostile place to be queer.
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It's disturbing how practiced our queer communities are in holding vigils.
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This article is part of the VICE series The New Queer.
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Unpopular opinion: A lot of movies about queer women are bad.
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As I type this, the Babadook's queer legacy is already dying.
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The B-52s were also different because they were largely queer.
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Jones was a young queer person with a relatively large audience.
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All my "art" energy got channeled into queer civil-rights activism.
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While doing research, she discovered queer photographer Alia Romagnoli on Instagram.
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How do queer communities imagine and work toward a better world?
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Jamaica is not known for its progressive views on queer issues.
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