When it comes to queerness—especially new-ish queerness— Strangers understands that, too.
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Korean views toward queerness are undeveloped; queerness is not understood, and transgenderism is hugely stigmatized.
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We may never touch queerness, but we can feel it … The future is queerness' domain.
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They meet a psychological need, highlighting "queerness" in the world around us, even if that queerness is absurdist projection.
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As such, it's possible that Thompson's and Stewart's real-life queerness could've helped mold these LGBTQ characters, pushed them into more contextual queerness.
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In his latest collection, Jericho Brown tackles history and trauma both private and public, personal and narrative — especially blackness and anti-blackness, queerness and anti-queerness.
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O. In his latest collection, Brown tackles history and trauma both private and public, personal and narrative — especially blackness and anti-blackness, queerness and anti-queerness.
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A tireless Larry Owens plays a theater usher named Usher in Michael R. Jackson's dizzying musical, which wrestles with blackness, queerness and black queerness with gleeful abandon.
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If you were a queer kid growing up in early '00s America, it was nice to see some representation of queerness on television, even if that queerness looked nothing like you.
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Is it radical and aspirational to offer stories in which queer characters aren't defined by their queerness, in which queerness is just matter-of-fact—or is it disingenuous and out of touch?
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Because Bohemian Rhapsody only equates queerness with sex, and because it frames his queer lifestyle as bad, Mercury's subsequent AIDS diagnosis is inherently set up and portrayed as a punishment for his queerness.
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I'm a woman marrying a woman and though it's 2020, not every venue we toured felt comfortable with our queerness or could ensure that our queerness wouldn't be an issue with outside vendors.
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Drake had this unique chance to make a statement about homophobia and anti-queerness in hip-hop culture, and opted to carry on the tradition of using black queerness and not spotlighting it.
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Unintentionally, this lack has left room for ample speculative queerness.
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The kinship of queerness, though silent, was undoubtedly one element.
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And other characters, like Petra, for example, explored their queerness.
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"So much queerness that happens inside of Her," Exton said.
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Often, a character's queerness is glossed over or completely ignored.
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In its queerness, Puś's visual style is generous and porous.
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But only if making room for new revelations about queerness.
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What we want to do is question how queerness circulates.
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The language and understanding around gender queerness wasn't yet there.
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Queerness, she wrote, derives its radical power from its inclusivity.
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Pridefest is corporate by design, a neutered representation of queerness.
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Increased acceptance of queerness has only led to increased commodification.
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But there were moments where my queerness would come out.
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"Queerness" is more normal than it was in, say, 1953.
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Greaves is surprised I find the Temple's queerness, well, surprising.
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Queerness was something to be kept firmly behind closed doors.
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"Queerness means that I fit in always," Milan told VICE.
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In Colette, female queerness is finally rendered like a celebration.
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Ezra Miller has publicly embraced gender fluidity, polyamory, and queerness.
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Can you tell me about your theory of Enid's queerness?
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I think this experience is synonymous with discovering your queerness.
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There's a truth about queerness every gay joke misses entirely.
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Suzy: Visibility makes all the difference in how you experience queerness.
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Recall the ways various governments and institutions have historically vilified queerness.
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But that doesn't mean queerness within the ring is entirely nonexistent.
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"Real queerness means pushing boundaries of what is forbidden," says Leap.
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Speaking about queerness when it comes to art can be tricky.
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And then my queerness I think I just grew into it.
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That was one of my first engagements with photography and queerness.
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The artist has since elaborated on his queerness in his music.
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It was a time-honored tradition: My queerness was inherently tragic.
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And that's how we're taught to see the pain of queerness.
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The queerness is coded and almost entirely hidden, but it's there.
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Queerness has always existed between the lines in novels about teenagers.
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Celebrating queerness in small-town America is, honestly, a revolutionary act.
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We started thinking, 'What does queerness mean to each of us?
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Some see queerness as espousing the ephemeral, the flux of life.
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Queerness in art, in life, can give you something, you know?
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My queerness lives within a larger history of adaptation over perfection.
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Queerness has a sense of community, too, that's very important to me.
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The exploration and acceptance of queerness can be an inherently lonely experience.
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In fact, queerness as a whole can be an inherently lonely experience.
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When we're young especially, our queerness is considered in quiet, stolen moments.
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Every major internet platform is policing sex and queerness; Steam and Itch.
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But it's a chance for queerness to be out in the open.
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That choice—to reject heteronormative, patriarchal standards—is the root of queerness.
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RC: Some of the artists explore aspects of queerness in their pieces.
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" He went on, "Queerness was, by definition, a critique of mainstream culture.
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As our relationship deepened, my queerness became camouflaged to the outside world.
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Queerness is anti-classification by definition, so it looks different for everyone.
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Once in a while, it does tie these questions directly to queerness.
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She can't accept his queerness and keeps asking him to clarify it.
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She highlights the queerness of things we accept as the natural order.
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Scientists released some interesting findings about the role genetics play in queerness.
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Queerness was in McCullers's dress, her work, her social circle, her life.
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This isn't to say that there isn't explicit queerness in the series.
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H: Would you say your work explores queerness in the public sphere?
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In some of its language, as well as its subject matter, "Tonya Harding" hints at the queerness that runs through Stevens's music, a queerness that is obviously brought close to the surface by Call Me By Your Name.
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My queerness is a statement of identification as well as of political intent.
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To be fair, the movie's queerness begins and ends at about this scene.
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Scream Queen features artists who employ horror tropes or aesthetics to explore queerness.
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I think it's because there isn't a push to educate adults on queerness.
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You don't see queerness explored in an evangelical setting too often in movies.
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Heels play a very important role as a tool to express my queerness.
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He continues with this theme in "Undressed," which more explicitly addresses his queerness.
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It moves queerness out of reach even as it brings intimacy into reach.
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Granted, "The Best Years of Our Lives" didn't confront queerness, but so what?
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This suggests that nightlife spaces are adapting to more fluid definitions of queerness.
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In 2009, my queerness burned hole through my gut from the inside-out.
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Reckoning with a newfound queerness is perhaps season three's most consistently explored theme.
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And many rely on the comfort and familiarity of an app's exclusive queerness.
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A woman's queerness while on business travel heightens the threat of this danger.
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The goal here isn't to pit queerness and straightness against each other, however.
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I'm not a celebrity, so I have no idea what it's like to navigate the performance of your own queerness, or the discovery of your own queerness, on the world's stage, but it's something that celebrities have wrestled with for decades.
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Is it too romantic of me to rail against the Met, to still designate camp and queerness as anti-normative or anti-establishment in a world where there is a Drag Race-industrial complex, where priorities around queerness have changed?
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Queerness and blackness are already complicated identities; things get even messier when they're intertwined.
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I had just come into my queerness and was experiencing heartbreak at every turn.
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Perry also explores Hansberry's queerness, something often glossed over because she married a man.
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Moira's queerness, and her blackness, are much less explored in the series' first season.
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In the first issue, women and queerness are central to the narrative that's unfolding.
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I was two years old when that first study suggested that queerness is genetic.
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My newfound queerness still wasn't the queer I knew to be at my center.
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The show makes queerness even more explicit than Hannibal did: Villanelle, is openly bisexual.
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It's a harsh (and familiar) interpretation of queerness, but if anything, it's historically accurate.
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It doesn't have to be tied to sex or sexuality to be about queerness.
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But when you apply the idea of queerness to nightlife, things can get dicey.
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Gideon also says that those core values include the promotion of homosexuality and queerness.
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Their theology encourages us to pray to a god to take our queerness away.
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The richest dialogue of these new episodes investigates this thorniness inherent to contemporary queerness.
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Rashaad Newsome's FIVE St. Croix, an ever-evolving vogue performance series, also explored queerness.
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For the young Newfoundlander, Buffy was one of the first mainstream portrayals of queerness.
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Memorable, mostly underseen gems that explore the tensions of queerness and camp on screen.
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They're dangerous, perpetuating the myth that queerness is a fatal flaw in a person.
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Qiu rejects the notion of queerness as a single experience, showcasing its multitudes instead.
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But her queerness is put on display as a means to satisfy Peter's libido.
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Writer Max Mohenu explained why less diverse places helped appreciate his blackness and queerness.
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It's so funny but the first thing made me think about queerness was actually Xena.
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"It was as if she was trying to bond over [our] shared queerness," she said.
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"He really understands my queerness and my fluidity, and I really understand his," she explained.
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Individualism is a human right and queerness is not the latest fashion birthed by postmodernity.
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But when will filmmakers start centering their queerness, and all its complications, in the telling?
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Queerness has always held up a mirror to mainstream society in order to mock it.
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Though primarily straight, these women honor and adore the inherent queerness of their young children.
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Lessening the queerness of your art and yourself can be detrimental to your mental health.
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High School Musical 2 has also been read as low-key exploring themes of queerness.
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Even many who purport to be allies find it difficult to separate queerness from sex.
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In this way, queerness becomes central purely by the act of making it completely irrelevant.
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Not because they explicitly embrace queerness, but because they feel queer on some deeper level.
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In 21st century America, queerness or gender nonconformity is still seen as a luxury identity.
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The plot device that paves the way for queerness here is the dissociative personality disorder.
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Recognizing my queerness has not diminished my love or willingness to travel life with him.
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Indeed, his tender masculinity and queerness gave us permission to be incomplete works-in-progress.
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My family viewed my queerness as the work of a demon that was possessing me.
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I grew up in a time that had no language for queerness or gender gradience.
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This isn't the first time queerness on screen has given new life to old songs.
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As for Ms. Heartscape's work, centered on the risks of queerness, it's startlingly soul-baring.
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Or is queerness here merely a lens, an angle by which to view straight masculinity?
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Like queerness itself, it taught people how to participate in culture in entirely new ways.
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My other hope is that it normalizes queerness for people, but that's my reservation too.
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We don't need to search for queerness on screen anymore because, as you say, it's just more present, but that doesn't stop us searching for queerness that we actually identify with, and I think for me this is still something difficult to come by.
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There's a way you can read Glee where there's a lot of queerness in Rachel Berry.
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For music icon Sam Smith, his queerness has been a journey of self-identification and understanding.
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Sure, as mentioned earlier, pop stars frequently express their own fluidity and queerness in their output.
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Walden's work is poetic, offering a quiet, revelatory account queerness that every young person should read.
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Of course, as history has taught us, fundamentalism and queerness don't necessarily go hand in hand.
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We wouldn't be a throwaway camp villain, a recurring gag or an ally with implied queerness.
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It's a book that assesses young queerness without forcing the lens on a coming out trope.
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Do you feel the black community's reaction to queerness has changed since you were growing up?
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Sure, there are examples of queerness in comic books — please see Midnighter who identifies as gay.
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It's as if the queerness is almost the key, and it's highlighting the history of oppression.
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Low also clarifies that the show is not meant to be the singular authority on queerness.
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Over the years, Bert and Ernie's subtextual queerness has become incredibly obvious to anyone with eyes.
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ZAB: We are caught between creating visibility around queerness and Islam, while maintaining safety and security.
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Matthew believes this unwillingness to educate kids about queer sex and queerness more generally is harmful.
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While there has always been queer pop stars, pop has not always been hospitable to queerness.
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Was that a point that you'd seen a change in the way "indie" was approaching queerness?
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And because I'd never made the effort to experience public queerness before, that's all I expected.
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My queerness has been a continuous reexamining of myself, a process that began in my teens.
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Themes from queerness to race to power and vulnerability coated the record like a holographic gloss.
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Remember that your queerness/womanhood/transness/class background/disability doesn't exclude you from white privilege. 94.
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There were no role models or people I could relate to, as far as queerness goes.
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The Criminal Queerness Festival, which runs through July 44, presents L.G.B.T.Q. theater from around the world.
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As ideas about queerness have expanded, so has our engagement with media that reflect those experiences.
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I'm not a man, I'm a cisgender woman, but I wanted to represent our queerness strongly.
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The subtle running theme is queerness throughout history — its persistent silencing, its coded expression through style.
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The poems are intensely personal, wrestling with Vuong's understanding of his own race, queerness and memory.
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For me, it was really important to find a venue that was comfortable with my queerness.
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Suggesting Trump is gay reveals more about how society sees queerness than how it sees Trump.
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In the last century, this queerness has been increasingly suppressed, challenged and blamed on "Western" influence.
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Naughton, a gay American living in London, often works on stories about queerness around the world.
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It's there that you realize the power of his stardom intertwines with his queerness in many ways.
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It will be the first since 1994, and Birdsall intends to bring Beard's queerness to the fore.
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"I'm really just hoping to show people a world where queerness is normal and unremarkable," said Maginn.
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But the music — with its references to Oz and yellow brick roads — is chock full of queerness.
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But for every vogueing Hermione, there comes someone who really pushes their queerness to its absolute limits.
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Queer representation is scarce, which is ironic, because queerness itself has seemingly never been more commercially desirable.
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Ellis adds that her attitude helped people let go of the negative connotations between queerness and athleticism.
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Did your experiences navigating queerness or discrimination in your community change once you developed this new confidence?
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I want to ask them what they mean when they say my queerness is making them uncomfortable.
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But among those, so few address queerness that that genre—queer Asian filmmaking—is scant at best.
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Queerness can be a lens through which to view the world and experience relationships, beyond the sexual.
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That rebellion some 40 years ago took place well before corporations wanted anything to do with queerness.
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KM: Is your interest in the past tied to some kind of reimagining of queerness or gayness?
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Both poverty and queerness become questions of personal worthiness or failure, of who to blame and why.
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The pieces in the "Love and Queerness" section are, for want of a fancier term, mind-blowing.
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When did explicitly naming queerness become a bad thing, preventing people from feeling "welcome" at the museum?
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Instead, with his goblin horde, Perfume Genius is a vanguard of a new kind of public queerness.
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Especially with queerness, there are traditions that could die because people's acceptance of alternative lifestyle are evolving.
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So many viewers will see its queerness as purely subtextual — or perhaps not see it at all.
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He was discreet about his queerness, but it was a public secret among those who knew him.
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Here are 10 memorable, mostly underseen gems that explore the tensions of queerness and camp on screen.
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" She thinks that "part of queerness is uncovering truth, a change in perspective, seeing difference in things.
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What if it smacks of the cringey portrayals of queerness that were so common in decades past?
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Queerness, a concept of difference that floated free from binary notions of sexuality and gender, had evolved.
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Immigration, queerness, transness, solitude, and community are explored as a way of understanding oneself in the world.
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What games like Fire Emblem need to start doing is upping their game on acknowledgement of queerness.
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But the three young artists shared another cultural identity that would bring them even closer: their queerness.
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Brands and consumerism were the straight white patriarchy, whereas queerness was a radical stance against these forces.
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Celine, Ashish The Hesitation Of Queerness In Fashion For decades, designers like Jean Paul Gaultier, Vivienne Westwood, and Marc Jacobs thrust ideas of queerness — by definition "the state or condition of being strange" — into the mainstream, and inspired millennial designers to explore gender identity and sexuality in their collections.
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Caldwell offers us a queerness of careful attention, an uncharted and brilliantly detailed exploration of self and sexuality.
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That's why she believes the best hope for mainstreaming queerness in Marvel will come down to the MCU.
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Two years after that very first foray into my own queerness, Robyn released her album Body Talk pt.
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Queerness exists on the streets, in beds and parks, pixels and billboards but it truly thrives in clubs.
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She's also exploring her burgeoning queerness with her best friend with benefits, Jo (Lauren Patten), who is genderqueer.
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She concludes that it's a confusing thing to manage, especially when you're young and isolated in your queerness.
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Queerness is just as multi-faceted as straightness – so it's only natural that its representation should be too.
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Killing Eve could do more to expand its views on queerness by growing beyond queer serial killer tropes.
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Or there were the rare few parents who introduced queerness not as something to tolerate, but to embrace.
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My queerness helped me demystify sex and the type of sex I thought I wasn't supposed to have.
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As LeJeune pointed out, Skirt Club doesn't claim to a space for explorations of identity politics or queerness.
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Queerness is the intersection of the political and personal, a way to quantify how the personal becomes political.
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The Club Kids brought queerness, gender fluidity, and groundbreaking fashion to the national dialogue in a subversive way.
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At DeGeneres' prompting, Hedges revealed how his own experience with queerness informed his portrayal of the leading role.
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Poussey comes from a loving family, and people care about her, and even her queerness her father embraced.
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That is emotional violence that will make queer/trans kids believe their queerness/gender identity isn't suitable either.
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Although the internet is based on a binary language, it has ironically carved a path for gender queerness.
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It had already published issues on complex junctions of artistic media and culture, including fashion, performance, and queerness.
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He was rarely taken seriously as a musician, so his queerness was never allowed to have plausible deniability.
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This is what we had in common, so I'd use drugs as a way to shield my queerness.
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We hosted a conversation called "Shop Talk" where we talked about black male identity and queerness in barbershops.
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Queerness rejects heteronormativity, or "the idea that binary gender identity and heterosexual orientation" are "the norm" for humanity.
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An essential part of queerness is fluidity — between identities, expectations, definitions and that word no one likes, labels.
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George Michael and Freddie Mercury were androgynous peacocks who projected transgressive allure, their queerness a wide-open secret.
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The considerable growth Murphy has exhibited with The Politician in its representation of queerness may have been personal.
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And it was there, through the proximity to San Francisco, that Sontag started coming into her own queerness.
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As the decade wore on, the strangeness—the queerness—found its way back to network TV and cable.
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The kiss is a fake-out—a brazen jab at queerness as viewed through the straight male lens.
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My friends were more aware of my queerness than I was, but were always gentle with me about it.
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In these spaces, we get to paint our queerness over one another, up the walls and across the ceiling.
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But, she explained, if you listen closely (which many fans have), her queerness is present in all her music.
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By being a young, out actor, Stenberg has opened up conversations in the mainstream about gender identity and queerness.
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At the time The Boys in the Band premiered, of course, being open with your queerness lead to obliteration.
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Here, both artists play with theories of reproduction and authorship to question preconceived notions of queerness and Blackness, respectively.
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Nugent's sketches play with exoticism and queerness, depicting nude bodies engaging in camp poses and same-sex sex acts.
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Queerness and Islam have long been intertwined, even if the average outsider now sees them as incongruous or irreconcilable.
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The film presents a negotiation in how an incredibly skilled filmmaker was able to — despite numerous obstacles — film queerness.
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However, those feelings just lead to fist fights with guys who knew more about my queerness than I did.
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Also, I believe that the queerness of the work can make it feel more explicit than it actually is.
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As he and his peers in Here & Not Yet articulate, queerness endures in the face of discrimination and hate.
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The Buttigiegs have the right to be traditionally married and conventionally masculine without facing the forfeiture of their queerness.
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My queerness has been diminished and joked about by other queer people, which instills a level of self-doubt.
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The more indistinct my queerness became, the more I relied on my partners as shorthand to tell that story.
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And in many ways, the game is an apt encapsulation of the unapologetic queerness of Love's body of work.
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They use a bright pastel and rainbow-like color palette to examine queerness and identities outside the gender binary.
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I projected queerness as a possible cause for her discomfort over her identity and her expectations for her future.
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Meanwhile, the social stigmas attached to queerness in the '80s and '90s took their toll on Michael's personal life.
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Their work onstage and online rejects the idea that a male dancer must store his queerness in his locker.
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In "Counternarratives," queerness is not a wrinkle in generational time, but a subject — and lens — in its own right.
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After all, discerning queerness in ambiguous texts is part of our adaptive armamentarium, honed on Proust, Dickinson and Shakespeare.
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After the Babadook's outing was discovered on Tumblr, people began meme-ing the character's homosexuality and queerness into reality.
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In its playfulness and its love of artifice and theatricality, camp as a sensibility is consistently associated with queerness.
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I don't have any bottom dysphoria, but I still feel validated tapping into that queerness as a queer man.
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Queerness has the ability to bind people across race, gender, and socioeconomic status through the creation of "alternative" families.
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Meanwhile, the show's primarily female cast, overt queerness, and mysterious science fiction elements all draw easy comparisons to Steven Universe.
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ZS: And, that's what we talk about all the time is that like, it's really about space, place and queerness.
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Ultimately, by not "getting" Freddie Mercury — in all his shameless, iconic queerness – this Mercury biopic doesn't "get" its own subject.
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This season, queerness is layered on top of race and gender politics, planting seeds for other important conversations about representation.
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It's become part of their brand, whether intentionally or not, so they'll undoubtedly be asked questions about queerness and sexuality.
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People still gave us looks — and some of the looks came from school administrators — but there was a queerness there.
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But these stereotypes of what it means to be Latinx take away my choice, my complexity, my humanity, my queerness.
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Their rejection of men mirrored my own gradual avoidance of cishet dudes as I chose to move further into queerness.
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"Being able to see visibility of other people with chronic pain, or queerness, means a lot to me," Lee said.
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The book's themes — queerness, the legacy of slavery, postcolonial African identity — are among those at the forefront of literature today.
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In The Village Voice 290 years later, the cultural critic Richard Goldstein hailed Reubens as an emblem of ''anarchic queerness.
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Roseanne defends her grandson's queerness to his bullies and her husband Dan, and she even has a token black granddaughter.
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In an interview — actually with Refinery29 — Hayley used Taylor to illustrate a point about the music industry's aversion to queerness.
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We may never touch queerness, but we can feel it as the warm illumination of a horizon imbued with potentiality.
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It's an undeniably queer album, and it's explicit about that queerness in a way that's unprecedented in the Quins' discography.
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As a Muslim hijra, Anjum practices her Islamic faith while also inhabiting a queerness defined by age-old Hindu tradition.
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Queerness will never hinge on one's presentation, political opinions, or the level to which one embraces or rejects the mainstream.
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Islam, and the unshakable implications of that pluralistic awakening, became the yeast that gave rise to my embrace of queerness.
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My queerness became emblematic of a larger personal history, and I wanted that to be seen by the outside world.
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Like the other 10 artists featured in curator Alexis Heller's exhibition, (SIGNAL), Yefman attempts to free queerness from social codes.
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Sometimes I don't think I'm deep enough into understanding queerness myself other than knowing that I want to name it.
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How would you say queerness and lesbianism have shaped your relationship and made it different from, say, a regular adoption?
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Although not a household name, Ms. Prodger has been regularly called on to discuss queerness in art by British magazines.
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Maybe this is because, unlike the identity categories under the umbrella of queerness, singlehood can be elected or cast aside.
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The boys who were told that their creativity, their softness, their queerness and their beauty were incompatible with their blackness.
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Family novels often position queerness similarly, using it as a counterpoint or rebuke to the patriarchal dynamics driving the plot.
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Janelle Monáe is known for breaking boundaries in their music and visual art, exploring themes of queerness, blackness, and feminism.
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The more confident I've grown in my queer identity, the more I've found queerness itself to be the turn on.
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While The Politician doesn't make a big deal about queerness, it still revels in the excitement and freedom of it.
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" Though the queerness of his songs was primarily subtextual, Ashman made a statement with his early 80s song, "Sheridan Square.
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For in this satire of mainstreamed queerness, presented by New Light Theater Project, two different couples anticipate a blessed event.
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A commerce-driven acceptance of queerness still excludes queers who don't have money — much like my 20-year-old self.
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Hopefully, queerness becomes so prevalent that it creates more solidarity, erases all borders, and ends capitalism as we know it!
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As a queer person working in mainstream entertainment, do you have other reservations, or hopes, about portraying queerness on TV?
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From marriage equality, to "bathroom bills," to the massacre in Orlando, queerness is central to contemporary social and political life.
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Or the excitement around Power Rangers' first queer superhero ... who never actually got around to addressing her queerness in the movie.
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Ottinger's images harken back to an era when gender-bending was a clandestine activity and queerness was almost universally considered freaky.
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The rose-colored video is full of dreamy, super-feminine visuals and unabashed tributes to female anatomy, queerness, and sexual liberation.
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"Striking Vipers" has many other opportune moments to explore queerness in more interesting, nuanced ways, but doesn't really dig into them.
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Sullivan's queerness and love of gay masculine culture — from bars to films to literature — date to the start of the diaries.
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Going forward, it would be appreciated if more shows treated possible queerness as something as something to be celebrated and explored.
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A woman's having children is so assumed that perhaps not having them is, in a way, another form of queerness altogether.
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Two new documentaries, The Gospel of Eureka and Gay Chorus Deep South, explore Southern queerness and faith in drastically different ways.
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"To be visible, to celebrate our uniqueness, to celebrate our queerness — that is what Pride means to this community," Roybal says.
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He was surprised, but not disappointed, that he didn't actually need to "teach" his daughters about queerness as he had anticipated.
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Just like how queerness doesn't exist in reaction to straightness: We don't exist because we're not the other… we just exist.
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You're so conscious and aware of your queerness all the time, and when you leave the gay bar, that fades away.
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State-enforced repression of queer people is a relatively new phenomenon that's bled over into social and cultural attitudes toward queerness.
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Recently, this has given us a number of collections and novels that use fabulism as a way of speaking to queerness.
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However much I love Paul, my queerness stands separate from our bond, and it will not be absorbed into heterosexual matrimony.
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Not to mention, every time someone declares their queerness, the well-worn straw man argument about "natural" coupling thins and teeters.
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Last fall, the Brooklyn duo released their debut LP Ugly Cherries, which shared their experiences with queerness, gender and growing up.
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A lot of people, because of my queerness, want to dismiss my Christianity, but they have no say in doing that.
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But they, like all other queer people, have the autonomy to present themselves however they see fit—without forfeiting their queerness.
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I think as a collective force, it's possible to infiltrate the mainstream with queerness, rather than just be buried deep underground.
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While the film classification board doesn't exclusively ban movies for queerness, it has an extensive history of singling out LGBTQ content.
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He received these beatings because of his failing of gender and for performing queerness as a child in the deep South.
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But the thing that hooked me wasn't just how gay the show is, but how brazen it is in its queerness.
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The show goes further into their struggles: In the sixth episode, "Outward Bound," they disagree about their differing approaches to queerness.
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Other than their queerness, many shared similar thoughts and strategies about sharing personal information in an environment with strong disclosure norms.
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I cannot detach my Blackness, my femininity, my queerness, or my mental health from an analysis on what happened in Orlando.
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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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I took the initial rejection of my queerness by family, friends and my faith and used it to become famously gay.
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And I miss the safety that came with being an example of queerness done right in our outside-the-home life.
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These days, the runway is, with increasing frequency, a place for political provocations, for expressions of gender fluidity, kink and queerness.
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So we avoided specificity and really strove to curate a show that was inclusive of different forms and ideas about queerness.
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H: What does the identity of "queerness" mean to you, and how do you bring a queer perspective to your work?
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Likewise, Roberts' utopian van is chimerical, a vision of a queerness that's elusive and caught in the undertow of hippie idealism.
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The visibility of queerness in Booksmart also adds a new sense of complexity to an already confusing coming-of-age moment.
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My work is a conversation between my less than perfect past and my newfound present reality based on fluidity and queerness.
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George M. Johnson is an HIV advocate whose upcoming YA memoir deals with blackness, queerness, and navigating life at its intersection.
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That political connection is partly why the term is inextricably tied to queerness, and proves so controversial when used outside queer contexts.
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In our interview, the Berkeley, California couple pointed to the role that queerness, polyamory, and BDSM play in making their marriage better.
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That is one strong scene where the film — through the voiceover — includes his queerness as part of its narrative about being yourself.
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Lesbian critic Camille Paglia was a '90s pioneer of using her white queerness to argue against multiculturalism and eventually support racist agendas.
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" 23, bisexual, nonbinary"No, I already learned a lot (and, frankly, crossed some lines) earlier in relationships while figuring out my queerness.
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" When Kiyoko was younger and negotiating her own queerness, she drew inspiration from an unlikely source: Katy Perry's "I Kissed a Girl.
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In the future, as Realbotix expands its offerings to target LGBTQ+ buyers, McMullen thinks they might become an asset for projecting queerness.
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When I stopped feeling ashamed of my queerness, I thought I would stop feeling ashamed of my body at the same time.
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Michelle Tea's Against Memoir: Complaints, Confessions & Criticisms is a collection of texts — brilliant, irreverent, optimistic, abrasive — about queerness, gender, humanity, and belief.
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There are infinite ways of seeing, approaching, or celebrating queerness, and the many ways it intersects with race, class, gender, and society.
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Although fictitious, Sargeant's oeuvre is a reminder of how little we understand — or want to understand — about the queerness of the past.
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The movie also acquaints the viewer with an interesting cast of characters whose queerness was what made them thrive in their time.
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And when she announced that she's bisexual, it lit up the internet, sparking conversation on queerness in the South East Asian culture.
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Which led me to a larger question: why are there so few "queer" parties that actually embody the full spectrum of queerness?
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Do you feel like that comes from somewhere autobiographical or do you think it's more an interest in cliché representations of queerness?
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Though the two differed in their approach, the effect was the same: The Club Kids pushed queerness into countless homes across America.
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Approaching queerness from a drastically different angle (although, curiously, with the same color palette) is Ken Tisa's sequin textile, "So Shy" (1982).
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Now 25 and far from those dreaded lunches, Francis has built a business which celebrates individuality, queerness, and his family's immigrant story.
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Justin Bieber shows, ecstatic as they may be, are not largely comprised of kids shouting down racism while overtly celebrating their queerness.
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Both promise a head rush and potential dependency, but the Juul, like queerness, is just cooler, or at least feels more modern.
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"I'd seen a classical performance by Rehan Bashir, and it had elements of queerness and a lot of Pakistani heritage," Qureshi said.
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In this new nearly three-week performance series, programmed by Marýa Wethers, the focus is the intersections among blackness, queerness and indigeneity.
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And when they did, did Prince's weirdness have to be the butt of the joke, so to speak, along with colored queerness?
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Ari Fitz created videos on queerness and blackness on their channel for years before coming out as nonbinary on Twitter in 2018.
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"It was as if she thought I'd never considered that my trauma could have something to do with my queerness," M said.
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They noted that sometimes this fixation on their queerness takes focus from their deeper-seated issues and behaviors they'd like to change.
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There is also his queerness, which I think comes across in the loving, idealized, and attentive way he composes his male forms.
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Its radicalism relies on how it really isn't radical at all, breaking tiredly stereotypical ways of representing queerness and women of color.
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If Green's larger project is to create this broad digital archive of queerness, then why bother with the playing cards at all?
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Artworks operated as vessels for healing and explored queerness, race, and class while avoiding tokenization or condescension, as they channeled firsthand experience.
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In such a conservative climate, it's no surprise that a network TV drama would veil its characters' queerness under multiple layers of subtext.
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Beloved British novelist Sarah Waters is famous for mixing the classic forms of the Victorian novel with modern literary sensibilities, feminism, and queerness.
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I am reluctant to be a spokesperson for queerness because I get to avoid all of the difficulties that are involved in that.
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It's refreshing that this one didn't shy away from feelings or queerness, considering how aggressively heterosexual sex comedies have been in the past.
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Existing narratives often focus on the trauma of black queerness (some of the best television today, like Pose, delves into such painful questions).
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When we post thirst tweets, we're performing queerness in the public space for our queer followers, but also for straight people to see.
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Having two different worlds each supporting the most essential aspects of my identity — my queerness and my parenthood — isn't wholly strange to me.
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Ms Prodger uses a visit she made to hospital for surgery as an occasion to meditate on class, memory, naming, identity and queerness.
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As with Ellie's queerness, it is not Dina's only characteristic, and she doesn't appear to be othered for being of Middle Eastern descent.
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There's so much language beyond English, beyond academic understandings of transness and queerness, in which our people have always existed as trans bodies.
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" Going to Dream Roll gave her a safe space to reconsider her heterosexual identity and explore her queerness without feeling "shamed by society.
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At LA's Main Museum, an evening of multimedia performance including hip-hop, poetry, and readings looked at the intersections between queerness and blackness.
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In his books, he instructed parents to monitor their children for supposed early signs of queerness, including shyness or "artistic" tendencies in boys.
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Reimagining the largely undocumented historical moment, the series collapses Art Deco motifs and early Modernist perspectival conventions with a contemporary conception of queerness.
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In honor of LGBTQ Wrath Month, we queers should force ourselves into every heteronormative space possible and shove our queerness in everyone's face.
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I have often looked to magic to help me find relief from the damage surrounding my queerness inflicted by both sex and culture.
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With the public conception of "queerness" constantly evolving, the museum has to keep up, reflecting these shifting boundaries in their expansive permanent collection.
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She was nervous about how her sexuality might be perceived, a feeling emblematic of how recently pop's seeming acceptance of queerness has developed.
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Queerness, dancing, beautiful bridges of sound that last forever: all of these things are interrelated and when combined, become something almost inherently political.
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The brazen queerness of this outfit elicits shivers of internalized homophobia for me: Why am I so afraid of vests and loose ties?
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There are four components to the gallery's new exhibition: heritage, queerness, art, and nationality, and the interconnectivity between these subjects is its focus.
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Myles employs a radical and subversive use of fact — loss made fact, queerness made fact, a trans body made fact, loneliness made fact.
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Arts and Letters These men are finding new stages on which to express their queerness, collapsing gender barriers in the world of dance.
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Fowler draws on the power of words and the cultural biases around language, in particular as they relate to gender politics and queerness.
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And, eventually, Demi opens up about the fact she is still "worried" about how the people around her will respond to her queerness.
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The title comes from a quote in Tongues Untied, Marlon Riggs's landmark 1989 documentary on life at the intersection of queerness and blackness.
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Reflections on the iconic legacy of Susan Sontag have yet to fully reckon with how fundamentally queerness shaped her writing and her life.
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Her choices have been debut works by diverse writers presented in idiosyncratic packages, discussing such hot-button topics as immigration, queerness, and racism.
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With Opie's blessing, Green embarked on her project to expand the original concept of "Dyke Deck" to celebrate a wider spectrum of queerness.
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Combining poetry and cultural criticism, her memoir, a wide-ranging examination of maternity and love, considers how convention and queerness shape and limit families.
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The Marvel movies are good fun, but they haven't exactly tackled queerness in a way that feels authentic to life in the 21st century.
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On Channel Orange and it's predecessor Nostalgia, Ultra, queerness was hinted at occasionally through the use of male pronouns if it appeared at all.
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Coming into your own queerness can feel like that cliché of moving to New York City: You've never arrived at quite the right time.
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The queerness of these women was conveniently sexy in the way that women dating other women tends to be categorized under the male gaze.
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The obligation to be an authority on queerness for white celebrities doesn't exist to the same degree simply because there are more of them.
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Baby gay me had convinced myself, so sweetly, that embracing my queerness would propel me into some parallel universe where bodies are just bodies.
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Whether or not you read into the fan theories about queerness and socialist revolution, the film still deals with the importance of personal responsibility.
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Heterosexuality is seen as neutral and harmless, while queerness of all varieties is considered obscene — and not just by people who are openly bigoted.
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As a collagist of the era, questions of where Blackness and queerness fit into what the media chose to represent became paramount to Arnold.
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Queerness was a theme the player had some agency over, but it wasn't really acknowledged until much later in the story, at least explicitly.
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Aucoin died 15 years ago this month, but only recently have I found myself able to appreciate his work—and his unapologetic, unmissable queerness.
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To the queer theorist José Esteban Muñoz, queerness was not a label people could claim but a complete reimagining of how people could be.
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Mr. Beard has collected the different ways in which filmmakers and the society saw both homosexuality as an orientation and queerness as a culture.
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It's no better than the rest of the world that blissfully ignores my queerness as long as I've got a man on my arm.
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It's the glimmers of possibility of another way for women to relate to each other that hint at a queerness it cannot yet realize.
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Related: "Knotty" Macramé Works Bind Feminism, Queerness, And Diversity South African Artist Explores Feminism Through Intimate Sculptures Embroidery Artist Weaves Memes with Modern Feminism
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The analytic work is to figure out how the thing is bad," Andrea shrugs, "I think straightness and queerness are bad in different ways.
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Even today as our notions of queerness and electability expand, the idea that an openly gay public official can win an election feels radical.
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Through her gaze, the animal becomes a symbol for queerness and elusive desire, as she injects autobiographical musings into her study of the creature.
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As much as Black Lives Matter is doing great work to end racism, it is also leading force in making queerness visible and defendable.
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Queerness has never been more visible, more trending and more in demand and yet, our lives and our livelihood feel extremely tenuous and fragile.
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"Because of the internet, our ideas on gender and queerness—and how we express those things aesthetically—will constantly be in flux," Mendelson insists.
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This is not the context of queerness (though it seems America is capable only of talking about the context), but these are the conditions.
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He doesn't identify as being of any particular sexual orientation; he has publicly dated women, but also radiates "a queerness," as Mock puts it.
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Invented relationships date back to the days of old Hollywood, when they were sometimes used to disguise the queerness of one or both participants.
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I remember it was autumn, and I remember feeling plagued by an unbearable need for both intimacy and estrangement, for the queerness of touch.
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Fates is where the other big reaches for explicit queerness happen in Fire Emblem but boy, did they fumble the ball on that one.
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VICE called Tremblay at her home in New York City to discuss the film, queerness, and why images of marginalized communities are so important.
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Bohemian Rhapsody's wins were something of a surprise, considering the movie's mixed reviews and criticism about how it portrayed Queen frontman Freddie Mercury's queerness.
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From large-scale paintings to small-format photography, the art on view reifies Casals's desire to diversify the space for all types of queerness.
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But it's also a tale of acceptance, feminism, queerness, polyamory, and sexual exploration, all themes that eventually made it into the early Wonder Woman narrative.
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But can you really so easily decouple Beard's queerness from his culinary sensibilities, which so brazenly stood in contrast to American norms at the time?
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It didn't seem like a huge bastion of queerness to me when I lived there, but I was probably hanging out in the wrong bars.
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Society today is lightyears ahead of where it was decades earlier when topics of kink and queerness were relegated to back alleys and dive bars.
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With all this celebrity queerness, it's easy to wonder whether we've finally gotten to the point where we can stop seeing queer celebs as aberrations.
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The way it fits childhood queerness into a squeaky-clean parable about difference is a commendable thing, and rare in this kind of blockbuster filmmaking.
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Both Charlotte's and Lizzie's queerness is heavily emphasized, and the first section of the film is intimately dedicated to the development of their steamy relationship.
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I've been thinking a lot about my relationship to my own queerness, and I think the word pansexual speaks to me more than bi does.
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Instead of having the kind of memory I have with my grandfather, I could make sure her first recollection of queerness was a positive one.
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The writers of Insatiable have never met a stereotype they don't love, whether they're portraying fatness or queerness or Blackness or pretty much anything else.
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Those who hold marginalized identities along with queerness — like many of the Latinx individuals killed or injured at Pulse — are even more vulnerable to harassment.
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He is furious, at his daughter and his wife, blaming them for not only Mort's queerness, but also for the fact that his son, a.k.a.
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Sexuality, intimacy, and queerness, can only thrive when we have "a room of our own" AND when we're not locked in that room, you know?
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Related: Ordinary Is Extraordinary in CUR3ES' Collage Wonderland Intimate Collages Celebrate Queerness and Feminism in Print These Sci-Fi Collages Feature Space Cowboys & Atomic Housewives
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What are the questions we have for ourselves, and all the different identities we house, in queerness, in blackness, in thinking about blackness being expansive?
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The strangeness, the queerness, the biblical imagery and the naked excavation of family make Sufjan unlike his bro-ish counterparts in the singer-songwriter community.
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Both of us come from multi-racial/multi-ethnic backgrounds, we both identify with queerness and Islam, and we had been devoting time towards that.
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What's more, the movie has come under fire for the changes it makes to Mercury's life story, especially when it comes to obscuring his queerness.
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Referring to somebody as a spinster or "confirmed bachelor" was a coy implication of queerness, but it's also a signpost for the childfree of yesteryear.
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But queerness bubbles like lava just under the crust of Korean culture; plot devices are just the societally acceptable cracks through which it seeps out.
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Minax's autobiographical work blurs the lines between past, present, and future self, demonstrating that queerness is on the horizon — close, and yet still far away.
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"I'd first encourage a person in this situation to start by considering the multiple ways they can explore their queerness on their own," Frappier said.
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It's hard to predict how your partner might react, or how you'll feel or what you'll want, once you start exploring your queerness or bisexuality.
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I was focused more on critical studies around race, ethnicity, gender, and queerness as those related to me as a biracial, trans, queer-identifying person.
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Instead of visualizing Johnston's approach to queerness, Morgan uses her words as table setting to his own dissertation on the invariable permutations of queer art.
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The coy almost-queerness of it: We're straight but not like that; too serious, too aware, or too intellectual for the juvenile boyfriend/girlfriend terminology.
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While gay- and queer-friendly male rugby teams are as prevalent today as ever, queerness in women's rugby operates under a different, more fluid mechanism.
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If their worldview is narrow and heteronormative, jokes are more likely to be based on queerness, gender, and ethnic diversity and other non-normative identities.
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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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PWR BTTM make a glittery spectacle for their live shows and present their queerness, their authentic selves, in the process; not undercutting who they are.
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Will they be drawn to Koresky's salon-like panel "Queer & Now & Then" to catalyze them to consider past, present and futures of queerness and cinema?
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But I think the dynamic in the last third of "The Light Years" is less a queering of the wilderness than a wilding of queerness.
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And when I viewed singlehood as akin to queerness, I felt grateful for the queer community's reminder that convention shouldn't dictate how relationships are defined.
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So much of queerness seems to be tied up in an obsession with youth, and it's hard for me to imagine what came before that.
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He opened up about his queerness on his 2017 album "Flower Boy" and released the self-produced, melodic "Igor" to widespread critical acclaim last year.
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It's also about locating oneself in the body, writing and art as communal pursuits, and searching for and locating queerness through tarot, TV, and reading.
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Shuttling between Puerto Rico and Miami Beach, Díaz spares no punches writing about her tough upbringing, grappling with her queerness and a difficult family life.
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Against church teachings, the pastor said her queerness was OK as long as God had told her it was OK—which Frazier said God did.
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Camp has been historically associated with queerness, but some critics have suggested that association stems from a desire to treat everything queer as the other.
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When you're raised on movies that portray female queerness as a fluke, finding a film like Rough Night feels like a mirage in desert heat.
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So in many ways, I was ahead of Seth when it came to expressing my queerness, despite the fact that they're four years my senior.
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This Pride Month, it's important to remember the artists who invite their queerness into every aspect of their life, work, and art, like Nayland Blake.
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She conveys the innate sense of queerness (as in otherness) typical of prophetic figures, who partook both of the human and of the divine space.
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Rather than rigidly policing or outright canceling stars who appear to contradict our individual notions of queerness, we might instead opt to celebrate this rich, representational moment, learn more about the wide array of people representing the community in #20gayteen, and encourage young artists, often new to the politics of queerness and representation, to negotiate their individual identities in ways that feel right for them.
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This work has never been easy and, in the spirit of queerness, won't be linear or binary — but it will be worth doing and doing boldly.
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At the start of her career, she felt the pressure to be, in her words, "secular"; to steer clear of issues like racism, queerness, or feminism.
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But a recent major and necessary step in making queerness in the MCU a reality came from the newfound support from those on the Marvel payroll.
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Related: Celebrate James Baldwin at Hilton Als' New Exhibition Dual Show Exposes AIDS' Continued Impact on American Culture Intimate Collages Celebrate Queerness and Feminism in Print
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The book talks of how queerness is uniquely positioned within minority or oppressed communities, as far as learning about your history, culture or identity is concerned.
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Through a canon of bangers, curated collectively, we wrap our queerness around the thick mustiness of the air, and are, temporarily at least, swallowed by it.
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When Dear White People, the Netflix series based on Justin Simien's eponymous 2014 film, debuted last year it notably indulged representations of queerness among Black communities.
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Roughly 45 minutes into the hourlong panel, a woman in the audience stepped up to a microphone and asked about how the filmmakers approached Amy's queerness.
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The setup gives "Striking Vipers" a great opportunity to explore black queerness, which rarely get screen time outside of works that are explicitly centered around it.
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"These are all things you are raised to do, but reconciling that with your queerness—that's a challenge that's very much an Asian thing," Christine said.
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They're theoretically interested in queerness without seemingly understanding the hardships that come alongside living a genuine life as a queer person in an increasingly dystopian world.
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For hardcore Bechdel fans and newcomers alike, the exhibit offers fresh insights into her creative process, her cultural influence, and her understanding of queerness and feminism.
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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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Blockbuster movies like Ghostbusters and Power Rangers hinted at their characters' queerness without doing anything explicitly and risking the wrath of the Great Middle American Consumer.
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In the book's earliest chapters, Goldberg resurrects Berenice Abbott and Susan Sontag as examples from a previous generation who refused or did not disclaim their queerness.
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Instead, she had to correct them and prove that not only does queerness exist, but that even a 17-year-old beauty queen can be gay.
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If nothing else, digital nostalgia has brought us dykeyspice and multiple other Instagram accounts dedicated to exploring the feminist queerness at the heart of '90s fashion.
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Having a new name felt like armor against not only my own teenage experience, but also a society that rejected my queerness, kinkiness, and leftist politics.
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Breath of the Wild has problems with gender, queerness, the notion of who gets to be a hero in society, and what a hero even is.
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So to kind of minimize that or sort of say, "Well, let's not make a big deal out of queerness," I think is kind of conservative.
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And yet, my queerness is not a trifling attribute; I cannot and — I have learned — should not maintain a shroud of secrecy just because I'm married.
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On Channel Orange and 2011's Nostalgia, Ultra, Ocean's queerness was merely hinted at if it appeared at all, but on Blonde, it's much more explicit.
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From this academic word salad, I sense that the everything can be everything, and that queerness is so diverse that it has no significance at all.
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So when Brendan Lemon (the reporter seen in the episode) profiled him for the July issue of The Advocate, he took Versace's queerness as a given.
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He keeps most of the decades humming with queerness and problematized whiteness, inventing characters and ghosts in his stories to dramatize the issues of the day.
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" This doesn't mean that queerness represents freedom; it's an "unknown force that got hold of me at birth and that imprisoned me in my own body.
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Falling in love with a woman who is unable to embrace her queerness and chooses to either keep the relationship a secret or deny its validity.
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With humor and intellectual curiosity, the Dyke Division of the Two-Headed Calf's Room for Cream uses the lens of soap operas to investigate contemporary queerness.
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But whiteness and queerness (especially gayness) have proven throughout recent history to make for an especially exploitable combination for real estate developers to raise property values.
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It feels like the sound of romance and fantasy in the face of the isolation or shame that can sometimes move hand-in-hand with queerness.
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As queerness starts to carry less and less stigma, will it be easier for young L.G.B.T.Q. people to imagine a life where they actually grow old?
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Dan Savage, 54, the author and sex-advice columnist, challenges the tendency among some members of the L.G.B.T.Q. community to measure the "queerness" of others' lifestyles.
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Filming himself voguing outside a Gucci store wearing outfits designed by his schizophrenic mother, Satterwhite occupies the gap his queerness creates between himself and conventional society.
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"It was important to us to have queer lead characters who were making jokes, and whose queerness was never the butt of the joke," said Aniello.
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In 2009, he had turned down a role in Tropic Thunder because the character was gay, expressing reservations about playing such a "flagrant" expression of queerness.
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In addition to the biting commentary on class, which I'll save for another time, the show tackles queerness from multiple angles and adds some much-needed nuance.
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In fact, Birdsall touched on the difficulties of writing about the queerness of San Francisco–based queer chefs in another Beard Award-winning essay in Jarry magazine.
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Related: Inside Raymond Pettibon and Marcel Dzama's Drawing Collaboration Jazz Age Queerness Comes to Life In Lush Paintings A Polish Painter Combined Rural Landscapes with Giant Robots
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Queerness enters into Blond(e) – an album whose title exists in both male and female forms – matter of factly through the universal lenses of love and heartbreak.
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With the help of a sacred anemone, she sets off on a mission that tackles issues of climate change, technology, queerness, colonialism, and Acilde's own gender identity.
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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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The play celebrates queerness and queenliness — as it encompasses different ethnicities, different social classes — but no one dances the night away, no one gossips idly over brunch.
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These days, the culture seems more accepting and welcoming of queerness: Young actors and pop stars like Amandla Stenberg and Lady Gaga are identifying publicly as bisexual.
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But given that homosexuality was only removed from the DSM in 1987, the history of conflating queerness and ill health is a very real and painful one.
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Oftentimes, it is only one vision of queerness we see in the lookbooks: a slim, cis woman with short hair or a thin, cis man in lipstick.
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As a few examples, the United Methodist Church, the Roman Catholic Church, the Presbyterian Church in America, and Pentecostals all include official language ascribing immorality to queerness.
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Before Stonewall was a blip on the horizon, queerness was a DSM-classified mental disease, and those who had it were subject to draconian government witch hunts.
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In so many ways, Killing Eve is already a queer show, so it follows that it would benefit from having that queerness affirmed through a consummated relationship.
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But does liberating queer narratives from being defined by struggle mean that they aren't collectively defined by anything else—that there is nothing that makes queerness special?
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Pop artists like Halsey, Hayley Kiyoko, Years and Years, and Troye Sivan to name a handful, all wear queerness on their sleeves and openly in their lyrics.
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If anything, Hot Priest lust is a brilliant metaphor for queerness: You can't choose who you love, even if it's a man (ew) of God (grow up).
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She seems to imply that queerness is irrevocably intertwined with one's rejection of the mainstream, and that the Buttigiegs are less queer because they've refused this rejection.
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After dyeing my hair Technicolor, I also noticed a decline in the attention I got from straight men—just as I was coming into my own queerness.
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Patrick and Danielle top it all off a convo about the newly release Life is Strange 2 and a shout out to the Queerness and Games Conference.
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I don't know if that's latent Catholicism or the community oriented bent of queerness or a problem of boundaries that I am definitely working through in therapy.
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Killer Inside adds important (and not sensationalist) context to the role his queerness and denial might have played in his now-well-documented life, death, and crimes.
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Amid swirling rumors of her queerness, she says the congregation grew cold, and she left her church—but not once did she want to leave her faith.
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Growing up, Frazier experienced religious trauma in the form of intense fear that she would suffer eternal damnation for her queerness, which nearly drove her to suicide.
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Vogel's text insists that it did, even hinting that the past's version of queerness, before the arrival of identity politics, was not perhaps an entirely bad thing.
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If queerness exists in those worlds, it's something you add as the player, not something the game's world provides for you to have a meaningful experience with.
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In deciding to pursue the show, we began to question how queerness was framed, both within this institution and historically within the art circles we participated in.
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Beyond that, what feminism and queerness seem to offer is a historical set of ideas, tools, and strategies that can be adapted or rejected for the future.
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Ottinger's images present a queerness that isn't interested in individualism but rather in creating a universal force, like gravity or hate, bound by neither the body nor society.
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It's also a reminder that for many, queerness is still tied to important physical locations—even if they're not old bars with rainbow flags hanging above the door.
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But when the Nashville Statement [a statement signed in August by 187 prominent evangelicals declaring queerness a sin] came out, we knew we had to handle this first.
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I was heartbroken because time and time again, my boyhood crushes were more interested in humiliating and assaulting me in hallways for my queerness than reciprocating my affections.
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Selling sleek interpretations of bondage looks firmly in the context of a strap-on company makes it impossible to lose sight of the queerness reverberating in its designs.
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And while the magazine's editors promise the magazine will still showcase plenty of skin, it has also expanded its coverage into new frontiers in queerness and social justice.
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In 1980, Kurt Andersen, writer and later host of the public radio show Studio 360, wrote what may be the first textual reference to Bert and Ernie's queerness.
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We rarely left those progressive walls, and when we did, it was to be shuttled to Rick's Cafe, another white tourist destination that didn't care about our queerness.
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Related: This Museum is Celebrating 50 Years of Diverse Queer Experience Intimate Collages Celebrate Queerness and Feminism in Print How the AIDS Epidemic Was an Attack on Imagination
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And since the coherence of straightness as default and matter-of-fact can only exist if queerness is not allowed the same stability, queer women must be obscured.
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" David Halperin, a founder of an academic journal on queer studies, describes queerness as a practice, one that is an "exhilarating personal experiment, performed on ourselves by ourselves.
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Alex Danvers grew up wanting to be the perfect daughter, wanting to do everything the "right" way, and she internalized the idea that queerness deviated from that mission.
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But my queerness and my trichotillomania journey are irrevocably woven together, an entanglement of internal identity, private struggles, and outward presentation that's as beautiful as it is messy.
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It's only in its second month, and already each episode manages to pull off a deep, heartening exploration of one corner of the wide, weird world of queerness.
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Indeed, the more intolerant the latter group, the more important it is for LGBT people to come out, to make queerness acknowledged as a normal and everyday occurrence.
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Unlike several recent movies that follow a gay teen's coming out ("Alex Strangelove" and "Love, Simon," for example), Amy is not anxious about the fact of her queerness.
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Todd Haynes's half-hour PBS short film Dottie Gets Spanked, which traces a line between star persona, fandom, queerness, and latent proclivities, is stylized like a Lifetime Movie.
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Underneath the dominant narrative that equates religion with socially conservative causes, religious institutions have quietly been in productive — if contentious and sometimes violent — dialogue with queerness for decades.
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Sexual and gender minorities do not have to choose between their faith and queerness: Both parts of their complex identities belong, and the two actually inform each other.
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At one time, I might have delighted in the queerness of being daddyfied, but I never wanted to be a woman more than when I became a mom.
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Black athletes don't have the best track record with LGBTQ acceptance, and a stigma still persists in the black community around queerness and transness, especially among older generations.
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But for all of the openness these new wave churches profess, the conversations around queerness have often played out via correctional undertones and are sometimes avoided all together.
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As the host of a popular late-night radio show, Sharma, 33, takes questions from across the country about consent, queerness, safe sex, sexual taboos, and social mores.
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The artist has launched a Kickstarter to fund her project, which is partially an homage to Catherine Opie's "Dyke Deck," updated to celebrate a wider spectrum of queerness.
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The Babadook's queerness could be both a satirical take on cinema's ongoing failure of representation and a sardonic response to the media and social media's "hot take" economy.
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Back in my day… My best friend only saw queerness through butch/femme relationships, which was confusing since I do not at all see myself in that dynamic.
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The individual objects reveal an obsessive-compulsive maker who welds steel, manipulates clay, and binds leather as an expression of plural identities and queerness in a binary world.
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Its M-turned-W speaks to those who consider themselves to be women, not just those who embody conservative gender norms — perhaps allowing for a little queerness to thrive.
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If one wants to get really historical about it, one can turn to Michel Foucault's History of Sexuality to see that queerness is not a phenomenon of the times.
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It's tempting to see Irwin's masks as a comment on the pain his chronic illness and queerness caused him; however, the work feels too gentle and loving for that.
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Related: Jazz Age Queerness Comes to Life In Lush Paintings Japanese Artist Spends 3+ Years Drawing Massive, Incredibly Detailed Tsunami Raymond Pettibon Can't Help but Capture America's Cultural Zeitgeist
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Were we to be offered more moments of such charged interpersonal conflict by Shawkat and Arteta, we might come to understand that, in queerness, the personal is always political.
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For those in Orlando, and for those in the community who fear violence from strangers or even their own families, the reality of queerness can't just be wiped away.
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Related: Must-Read: 'The DIY Guide to Feminist Cybersecurity' Intimate Collages Celebrate Queerness and Feminism in Print Police Brutality in VR Proves It's a 'Hard World for Small Things'
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As Zaynab and Alma grow closer, they realize how differently they express their queerness––Zaynab isn't out to her mother, who still expects to see her marry a man.
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The recent focus on the queerness of Albus/Scorpius is part of a larger cultural shift in fandom toward nuanced representation and a desire for diverse characters and worldbuilding.
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This interplay between the coded and the decoder gestures toward the idea of queerness as a shared secret, a thing that gains power the longer you look at it.
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Given that even capitalism now affirms the mainstream's affinity for queerness, it should come as no surprise that certain couples, like the Buttigiegs, feel increasingly entitled to cultural normality.
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I felt like I got to exist in disguise in a way [at the retreat]; everyone was silent, and I didn't express my queerness or transness to anyone there.
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In places where laws and attitudes want to keep LGBTQ in the margins—quiet, ashamed, afraid—queerness does its best work when it celebrates in the face of that.
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I love that the Ocean's 8 costumer dressed Cate with gay abandon, combining the unabashed queerness of vest culture with loose-tie-2000s-lesbianism and somehow making it work.
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In "Now Apocalypse," one of the characters says sexual fluidity is a "requirement" for the new generation, but your depictions of adolescence have always shown different facets of queerness.
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Charlotte Prodger, a film artist who will represent Scotland at the 2019 Venice Biennale, uses old and new film equipment to explore the relationship between queerness and the landscape.
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Onstage and in videos, the pair allow their simple, effective songs, which often hover around two minutes, to burst with color and queerness from glam rock and drag traditions.
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With Endless having fulfilled the New Orleans native's Def Jam contract, "Nikes," with its visual queerness and NSFW imagery, was the first release out of his newly independent status.
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Danielle and Abigail's deaths have nothing to do with their queerness, nor is there some encoded message to be had in it that is specifically hostile to LGBT-ness.
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"I think some of the sweetest comments were from other queer Bengali femmes, who said seeing queerness expressed with Asian bridal garments meant a lot to them," Haque explains.
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But a long, systemic tradition of queer erasure has prompted the most vocal fans to criticize the Netflix translation for seemingly diminishing what they call the series' previously unambiguous queerness.
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Good point, but do you think there's less of a need to search for this queerness on screen now because—for our generation, at least—it is more overtly present?
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Artist Cristina Pitter helps us open Pride Month with a paean from her performance piece, Decolonizing the Color of Queerness Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads What is June, really?
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This week, the Venice Biennale's photo problem, the importance of Jimmie Durham's claim to Cherokee heritage, the politics of fire, the state of queerness, dissecting Munch's "The Scream," and more.
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The genre has been far more likely to mock queerness than to actually portray a central lesbian character, let alone one whose journey to self-acceptance is so tenderly rendered.
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But I do wonder if "Rachel Weisz, top me!" is, at least in part, a performance of a more palatable kind of queerness for the sake of straight people's comfort.
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This was back before 22018/220.21, before W., before Trump, before Lisa died in 224.25, the first of many queer friends lost too young in a world inhospitable to queerness.
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And I also think the movie is intersectional, and one of the sections is about the world projecting this idea of masculinity, this idea of blackness, this idea of queerness.
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Cory Booker once again had a strong night, showing comfort and ease discussing LGBTQ issues and specific policies to deal with difficulties stemming from intersecting identities like race and queerness.
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So, even though she has a gay sister and is growing up in an arguably more progressive time, how could I expect her to understand queerness at 8 years old?
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Akhavan, an Iranian-American writer, director and actor, made her name with Appropriate Behavior and The Miseducation of Cameron Post, films which both concern queerness, albeit in very different ways.
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The professor talks of "practices of queer intimacy" between Ronell and Reitman that heteronormative spectators could never understand being unable to get outside of their faulty image of hypersexualized queerness.
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As a former graduate student who spent considerable time studying queerness in academic settings, I can definitively say that I have never witnessed any such practice in any professional context.
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Queerness in children's media has gotten unprecedented attention recently thanks to great strides made by shows like Steven Universe — and some fumbles made by others (I'm looking at you, Voltron).
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Pride today asks us to promote the acceptance of queerness behind police barricades and under corporate slogans, including that popular trio of words—"Love is Love"—that ultimately mean nothing.
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"It was about highlighting the absurd reasons people come up with to deny even the smallest hint of queerness in media because it's something they feel threatened by," he said.
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Food 4 Thot, launched last month, is a podcast hosted by four diverse queer men who have made it a point to focus on the intersection of race and queerness.
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Each visit, I feel, has gotten gayer and more fabulous than the last, because I just don't give a fuck what people (read: nosey neighbors) think about my queerness anymore.
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Despite only appearing in one episode, Kaworu's been the subject of queer readings of Evangelion since its debut, but his queerness runs deeper than just his physical attraction to Shinji.
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Their music blurs genres, too – from trap to hip hop to Sean Mendes-style guitar pop – all tied together with lyrics tackling race, poverty, queerness, mental health and toxic masculinity.
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It's that enigmatic and magical persona that not only made him famous, but also a vital representation of queerness within a conservative culture that still struggles with homophobia and transphobia.
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Sophia Mackey, who has been attending Queer Skate since March, says it's made a big difference for her to have a place dedicated to the intersection of queerness and skating.
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"When people I don't know give signals of queerness, like using the word 'partner' or wearing certain clothing styles, I give signals back, like explicitly mentioning my girlfriend," they said.
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Stuzo has an unmatched collection of graphic tees and hoodies celebrating blackness, queerness, and womanhood — communities that founders Stoney Michelli and Uzo Ejikeme continually strive to lift up and showcase.
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The artist — who has long dealt with queer male themes — was particularly interested in accounts of those young, bohemian aristocrats suggesting that queerness was boyish charm rather than criminal aberrance.
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Just because white bodies were still placed at the forefront of the conversation that surrounded queerness didn't mean that queer folks of color like me were limited in their expression.
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Singing in English and German, he tackles themes such as queerness, homophobia, and anti-Brexit activism, while experimenting with sounds as diverse as violins, trains, and a dying car alarm.
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Many responding to "Monopoly" believe she's guilty of queerbaiting, hinting at queerness to appeal to the LGBT community but not actually presenting it so that her heterosexual audience remains intact.
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This romantic noir is a volcanic study of gender, queerness, and the ways in which queers are undermined by symbols and signifiers themselves, not merely the figureheads that hold them.
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Delving into the underground drag and sex worker scene in Tokyo, the film unfurls in beautiful disarray, offering one of the most harrowingly pure expressions of cinematic queerness in history.
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"Ultimately, queerness is not a category or a style but a lived experience, which I feel is in danger of being colonized, of being sanitized," she told Frieze in 2014.
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This is a story of queerness in a society where it needs to be hidden, and an account of how their love story plays out after they are yanked apart.
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The justification for outing Hernandez in the first place lay within a very thin argument: that the subject of Hernandez's queerness might point to a motive for Lloyd's mysterious murder.
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Did I ever imagine, during my anxious, closeted childhood, that I'd live long enough to see a movie like "Moonlight," Barry Jenkins's brilliant, achingly alive new work about black queerness?
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Together they suggest not an invented false history but a secret real one, as if the queerness had always been there, a kind of digital potential waiting to be released.
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" But her treatment of camp's queerness is the part of her essay that has aged the most poorly, particularly her belief that camp is "disengaged, depoliticized — or at least apolitical.
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And although one of Brittany Black Rose Kapri's poems is titled "queer enough," her queerness is never up for question—and certainly not by you, her reader, whom she lovingly provokes.
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"Being visible is necessary, and it's so hard to be visible, because you never know if you're going to be hurt because of your queerness," Green recalls one subject telling her.
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Inaugurating this effort, we invited artist and actor Cristina Pitter to share a selection of readings from her solo performance, Decolonizing the Color of Queerness on our Hyperallergic Art Movements podcast.
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"No one should have to go through airport security scared that they might be humiliated, discriminated against or outed," Rice told Them, an online publication focusing on queerness and political issues.
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Learning about it showed me that the fandom community was really interesting, lively, and thoughtful — a whole secret world of women like me who liked internet stuff, feminism, queerness, science fiction.
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For most, it would have been impossible to authentically express their sexuality without Bowers providing a mechanism for it, when the mere whisper of queerness could kill your career, or worse.
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In the years since her time as Rue, Stenberg has become known in part for being an advocate for marginalized communities, she herself sitting at the intersection of blackness and queerness.
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Queerness invokes otherness — a life lived outside the presupposed narrative of a "normal," heterosexual love life, a nonconforming presentation of gender, a recognition that biology need not necessarily determine one's destiny.
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Even more importantly, we never witness the women name their queerness—that act of self-identification so crucial to sexuality in an era of identity politics, both on screen and off.
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At a time when many queers have signaled their desire for mainstream acceptability, it has been trans people who have carried forth the mantle of radical queerness, both personally and politically.
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The improbably named K-POP Extreme Survival features a same-but-different drag scenario to Coffee Prince—but it skyrockets the uneasy Korean conversation about queerness from here to the moon.
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In the twilight of his life, Little Richard is still that child being dominated by the toxic masculine force that attempted to beat the queerness out of him as a child.
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Although She Gone Rogue can be a disorienting watch, it reflects the winding path of self-identification, creating a multiverse instead of a single universe for the complex narratives of queerness.
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To be able to share our love for cheese everyday through our food truck is also our way of sharing our love, joy, and authenticity—basically our queerness with our community.
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I frequently found myself wishing that she'd had more confidence, either to break through her skittishness surrounding Hansberry's queerness or simply to devote the book to her adulation for Hansberry's work.
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He wrote short stories about criminality and queerness without a blueprint, drawing on the support and encouragement of his first and only same-sex partner, a fellow prisoner named Prince Rico.
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The works themselves chicken out of doing anything meaningful, in favor of winking at you and nudging you in the ribs, daring you to read queerness into properties where none exists.
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Aside from obvious trolling and overly sensitive info like full names, though, LaRochelle says they are very intentional about not editing out others' interpretations of "queerness" that might differ from their own.
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Between increasingly visible pride celebrations and queer cultural products, out celebrities and allies and LGBTQ rights organizations, visibility is improving, and the public tenor surrounding queerness in the country is slowly evolving.
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Queerness, unlike heterosexuality or whiteness or being able-bodied, is not a neutral state, and as such seems to command some contextualizing energy in order to justify its presence within narrative spaces.
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"Casimir Pulaski Day" — a song about cancer, God, queerness, and Michigan — rattled my emotional cage so much that even hearing him count at the beginning of the song makes me well up.
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In Against Memoir, Tea has gathered essays, speeches, and new texts into a collection weaving personal history with deeply considered, researched, and, I'd wager, necessary ideas on queerness, gender, humanity, and belief.
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Artists Dakota Noot and Christopher Anthony Velasco elaborate on this connection with Scream Queen, the group exhibition they curated featuring artists who employ horror tropes or aesthetics to investigate and celebrate queerness.
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Each picture holds my Blackness, my thinness, my queerness, and both my femininity and masculinity — all elements of myself that I have had to reckon with while documenting my body on Instagram.
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As in her debut, Dennis-Benn also explores maternal ambivalence, queerness, class and colorism, but her compelling main characters are the beating heart of the novel and the reason to read it.
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Over time, I got better at loving both my queerness and my body, transferring the joy I felt on the street at that first Dyke March in 2016 into joy in bed.
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Bruce Sargeant (1898–1938): The Lost Murals is a wonderfully mischievous lark that teases queerness out of an art historical epoch whose scholars seldom acknowledge the homosexuality of its most famous stars.
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As for their younger audiences, there's no question that these few instances of undeniable on-screen queerness have the potential to make a huge difference for previously ignored (or worse) queer children.
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The darkness of my skin, the queerness of my sexuality, the green South African passport I carry, and the Muslim household that I was born into — all follow me around the world.
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But this exhibition—held in Pittsburgh to question the centrality of New York in disco history—will resurrect icons such as Donna Summer, Sylvester and the Village People as symbols of queerness.
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I've begun to try to weave the two together and noticed that when doing so, I'm more comfortable introducing disability into queer spaces, than I am introducing queerness into disability-related spaces.
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Plus, if this adventure turns out to be a one-night-only experimentation, you likely run a lower risk of hurting the feelings of someone already firmly invested in the queerness quest.
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Then, the experimental "On Limits: Estrangement in the Everyday" (May 24 through June 11), brings together 20 interdisciplinary artworks related to a wide array of themes, including racism, queerness and the environment.
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It's a nexus of my queerness; at a nexus of my art practice; at a nexus of all of these things that intersect with each other into this structured and ritualized space.
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Now, my hair is a vibrant of neon pink to mark how unapologetic I'm becoming in regards to my queerness and identity—and how romantic I'm becoming toward every part of myself.
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Sure, Robin Williams and Nathan Lane don't belong to a gay dads' play group, but at least they were surrounded by fellow gay men who celebrated their queerness instead of downplaying it.
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Though she doesn't address those clips specifically, nor her rumored relationship with their star Tessa Thompson, Monáe does suggest that themes of queerness had been in her music from the very beginning.
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These themes echo Lauren Field's photographic body of work, which explores sites of queerness and the sublime, as in images of trans friends perched, contrapposto and Venus-like, along the California coast.
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Starz's Vida, a dramedy that tackles Emmys-bait topics like grief, queerness, and race with a surgeon's care, has never gotten a single major awards show nod over its two-season run.
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Sontag: Her Life and Work is strongest, and most freshly compelling, when — sometimes directly, sometimes inadvertently — it tells a story that suggests Sontag's development as a writer was inextricable from her queerness.
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Its queerness is ever-present, sewn into the fabric of a universe where sex is magic and the relationships between its main characters freely disregard the borders of platonic and romantic love.
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By traveling with seven queer and trans artists of color, Sister Spit not only interrupts the way we think about travel stories and public space, but also reframes family, sisterhood, and queerness.
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For him, it's not just about outlandish costumes; it's about unapologetically expressing his queerness—and in the process, expanding our conceptions of bodies, gender, and species, and flipping beauty on its abject head.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Silverlake Life: The View from Here debuted in 1993 — a time when demonizing queerness was a bipartisan hobby, and the AIDS crisis was mainly discussed through statistics.
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So even though I could proudly walk in the middle of the street in a shiny crop top, even though coming out liberated my body, my queerness didn't save me from my insecurities.
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And while living outside of societal norms and not giving a damn about the expectations of straight society also plays a part in my attitude, I think this choice also extends beyond queerness.
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Jeffrey C. Stewart's 2018 biography "The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke" brought renewed attention to the other most significant gatekeeper of the Renaissance, looking specifically at the influence of his queerness.
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The wealth and range of what queerness is and can be is still, if not completely confined to, then tempered by the narrow, exclusionary, and uncreative beauty standards that still dominate Western media.
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I have extreme privilege in being able to do what I do, but I didn't think I was going to be able to do what I do because of my queerness and fluidity.
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For the last 15 years, I've mourned the loss of my mentor and my muse who helped me navigate friendship, gender, and queerness—three of the most important parts of my life today.
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These are the same individuals who shun us from their places of worship, who ask us to pray to the same God to pray away our queerness, who themselves pray against LGBT individuals.
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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 while the fight for LGBTQ equality is certainly not yet won, queerness, once forcibly relegated to the realm of counterculture, has achieved in many ways a promotion to that of the mainstream.
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Despite obsessing over his own queerness, he never wonders why it is he clings so desperately to the closet; its appeal is so self-evident that the question merits no consideration at all.
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In Illness as Metaphor, she wrote about cancer without disclosing her own prolonged experience with the disease; in AIDS and Its Metaphors, she wrote about the queer community without disclosing her own queerness.
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As queerness has progressively found its way into the world of mainstream fashion—whether through public figures, fashion trends, or trans and gender nonconforming models—it's inherently radical sensibility has become increasingly normalized.
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When I was growing up in 1990s, there was no model of public leadership that included openly gay men, to say nothing of other forms of queerness that benefit from far less privilege.
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Just like in Three Houses, the actual text for the supports in Fates is the same regardless of Corrin's gender, so it's difficult to consider either option particularly explicit in terms of queerness.
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"As curators, we really wanted to show the plurality of queerness and how that takes form within individual art practices," MFA student Jonathan Payne, a first year in the school's painting program, says.
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But straight masculinity is also harder to intentionally camp than femininity or queerness, because we tend to consider straight masculinity to be neutral — the default setting against which everything else is an aberration.
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I hope that this is conveyed for other queer people as well, and I hope this helps people who think they are on the outside of queerness understand a new way of seeing.
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In songs such as "Parables" and "Achilles," the album carefully yet intentionally discusses issues such as the artist's queerness, religion, and past family trauma with an overall tone of healing and self-forgiveness.
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"I grew my hair out to my shoulders when I was first raising money for Beautycon because — not that I could cover up my queerness — but I was trying to assimilate more," Mahdara says.
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In a time where queer visibility is perhaps greater than ever, Atlus's erasure of positive queerness flies in the face of its purported ideals, representing outsiders as heroes who can facilitate greater societal change.
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The queerness literally rippling off of 'Captain Marvel' "Her not having a specified romantic interest was a great opportunity because usually all the women in the movies are paired automatically with men," said Kersetter.
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As the purview of queerness expands and the need for political solidarity and resistance against LGBTQ violence becomes all the more necessary, how can we think critically and compassionately about desire, identity, and labels?
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The concept of sexual fluidity itself is often deployed in reality TV as a strategy through which shows can hint at queerness for mainstream viewers — without actually exploring queer culture outside a straight gaze.
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At 29, navigating dating and sex still isn't easy, particularly after embracing my queerness, but it's a million times simpler with an understanding of the difference that vocal, deliberate consent and communication can make.
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And I always think stories of nuanced women's friendships, broad ranges of intimacy and interconnection are more interesting than tragic romances, especially when I'm aiming to have even a little queerness in my stories.
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When your collection doesn't cater beyond a size 16 (and several don't), you are reinforcing the idea that there is one acceptable version of queerness, and that fat people are not part of it.
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Bruce Sargeant (1898–1938): The Lost Murals is a wonderfully mischievous lark that intends to tease queerness out of an art historical epoch whose scholars seldom acknowledge the homosexuality of its most famous stars.
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It's taken years to do away with all the stage, forced pageantry, and get it back to the essence of body politics, disruption of space, the reclaiming of queerness from a contemporary Pacific identity.
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But Davies' style of haunting, deeply personal cinema, grounded in his own suffering more than anything else, is no less queer; it's just that his queerness manifests in a far different form than Olnek's.
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Stevens's songs for Call Me By Your Name fit the vision of him walking the emotional high wire, injecting queerness into his sometimes wistful, occasionally whimsical explorations of love and loss, past and present.
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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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Although Aguhar died by suicide on March 12, 2012, her legacy continues to teach us about the possibilities we can find in queerness, and the power of everyday expression as a tool for survival.
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But still, the vocals, the energy, the queerness (before I knew I was queer) just kind of drew me in when I would hear Miss Tony's tracks, usually in the weekend mixes on 92Q.
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From that trauma she loops back to Solanas, loops through her own time in sex work, loops through the connected circles that are poverty and queerness and wanting to make men suffer in revenge.
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The de-ghettoization of queerness is demonstrated both by gay America's decades-long shedding of its countercultural nature in favor of a more assimilationist approach, and Pride Month's transformation into an extravagantly corporate affair.
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"Before moving to Philly, I spent a year and a half living in rural Virginia, which was really hard because feminism, queerness, and diversity were challenging notions for many in my midst," says Harrod.
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The tragedy, and unsubstantiated rumors that Mr. Mateen may have been a closeted gay man, opened up a rare mainstream discourse, both in United States and in the Muslim world, on queerness in Islam.
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I carry you with me Talk with you ask your opinion You cannot give me up I cannot give you up We are linked in our Blackness our creativity our queerness our muses conspire.
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One of his most buzzed-about collaborations is with the Scottish designer Charles Jeffrey, 27, whose Loverboy label is a riot of color, print and queerness — and a highlight of London Fashion Week Men's.
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Together, they tell the story of a young black man embracing his queerness, first through the soulful R&B and hip-hop of Channel Orange, then through the more existential, experimental pop of Blonde.
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Evolution returns to many of Myles's previous themes, their ongoing exploration of gender, sexuality, queerness, urbanity, mortality, art, and radical politics, as well as an infinite fascination with animals and nature: birds, dogs, flowers.
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Fire Emblem's relegation of queerness to "a choice you can make, I guess" while at the same time emphasizing the opposite-gender pairing off of characters is a perfect example of heteronormativity in action.
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I have also co-organized art exhibitions relating to queerness, humor, politics, and history, including the Pop-Up Museum of Queer History (2011), Hysterically Accurate: Comedic Critiques of History (2015), and Queering Space (20103).
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On the flip side, you can easily get other like-minded POC folks together and establish communal support networks and events, where oppression and queerness is discussed in an open forum of love and support.
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In this debut novel, author Casey Plett gives us a queerness uplifted by community and anchored by an unforgettable narrator—both wounded and wonderful—whose fire we will remember long after winter thaws into spring.
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This response may be attributable to the artists' genuine connections with their fans, the perceived authenticity of the artists' representations of their queerness, their level of success when they came out, and rapidly changing times.
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Instead, The Handmaid's Tale does approximately nothing to explain how the collapse of the US into a dystopia where women are subjugated and queerness is forbidden would suddenly eliminate racism and the idea of race.
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Where the curators' choice of artists ensures a space for more singular voices, so too does it invite a secondary reading of contemporary experiences of queerness that collectively complicate and modernize a historically fraught approach.
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Update: This article has been updated to reflect the fact that while #unit bills itself as "the first and only" tech conference dedicated to queerness, there are other festivals that could arguably claim that title.
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What is fascinating is how little celebrities and regular people in the '90s were aware of the gender-bending queerness at the heart of their design — or how little they cared, if they did know.
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It's closer in spirit to how performance studies scholar José Esteban Munõz describes queerness as distinct from the pursuit of rights in his seminal book Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity (2009).
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There is a trajectory of self-seeing which moves from our placement within a white, masculine canon of homo-eroticism to a localized understanding of how whiteness influences what queerness means to Black gay men.
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For this piece, we spoke to Wazina Zondon—a 36-year-old New York City-based Muslim sex-ed teacher and co-creator of storytelling performance Coming Out Muslim—about navigating queerness, sex, and Islam.
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When a person comes out as LGBTQ, one of the first things the family member or friend who they're confiding in often does is flip through the "signs" that pointed to their loved one's queerness.
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Moreover, the double discrimination—or "biphobia"—experienced by many bisexuals means that they are often erased from or rejected by both dominant society and the LGBT community, as well as many media representations of queerness.
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For example, the theme entry at 17A is "VICTOR/VICTORIA," which, on its surface, is about Julie Andrews's character cross-dressing to get a job, but is really a look at the spectrum of queerness.
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As a result, season three is notably queerer than the show has been before, using Arthie and Yolanda to comfortably settle into having characters explore aspects of their queerness, even if it makes them uncomfortable.
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The parties center nonwhite bodies, as the desire for proximity to queerness and blackness has intensified over the last few years, and they both honor the need and desire to protect the sanctity of spaces.
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Movements like this, the flickering between what is thought to be known and what remains unknowable, are embodiments of queerness, and a facet of their power is that they cannot be dictated by the state.
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Ticket holders will drink, dance and feast from a potluck buffet, and a few will then sleep over in an event that promises to celebrate queerness, enchantment and liberated love in its many-splendored varieties.
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But opinion among even Roman Catholics and evangelicals is increasingly affirming, and with support even higher among younger adherents, it is reasonable to conclude that American religion will continue to expand its embrace of queerness.
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While the fae are mostly used as a metaphor for refugees and racial discrimination, there's also an undertone of queerness led by the casting of Delevingne, who is bisexual and genderfluid, playing a bisexual faerie.
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The only anchor in Steph's tumultuous life is an online chat called CatNet, where she and a group of pseudonymous friends trade cat photos and talk about their lives — their therapy, their poverty, their queerness.
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" Accordingly, Pur·suit's digital presence will feature over 100 portraits of people who, Green says, "comprise the first stage of a digital archive created to expand and preserve narratives of queerness and its many evolving identities.
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The result is that when we talk about camp, and when we use camp to play with gender, we generally assume we'll be playing with queerness, with androgyny, with hyperbolic femininity — with lavender and pink.
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And I think that there's a whole bunch of weight put on this idea that Disney, like this kind of huge feature in a lot of people's childhoods, is finally acknowledging this idea of queerness onscreen.
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In many ways, Head Over Heels might prove to be a tough sell — the jukebox musical is played out for die-hard theater fans, and the show's unapologetic queerness could alienate more close-minded audience members.
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So, by the time I was 11, no one told me being trans or gay was wrong directly, but I was coming home every day and trying to pray transness, gayness, and queerness out of me.
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"I talk a lot about queerness in my comedy, trying to debunk myths and stereotypes people may have about me," 32-year-old bisexual poet and stand-up comedian Stephanie Chan told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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As someone who's bisexual, I'm tired of either using the rainbow flag or some kind of combination of the pink, purple, and blue (the color of the bi pride flag) heart emojis to represent my queerness.
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The "third Muslim" is a reference to the many identities both assumed and transposed on queer and trans Muslims, who inhabit a third space outside notions of a monolithic Islam and cisgendered, white, able-bodied queerness.
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But as she advances professionally, she realizes that she needs to embrace and go public with parts of her identity—her blackness, her queerness—in order to feel that she can be herself around the office.
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The tension between beauty and grossness is central to Perfume Genius's self-presentation, as well as to a new mode of queerness that has emerged on social media, one that values powerful strangeness above simple beauty.
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The point is not insignificant: it's the "old science," in a sense, that ends the model's life, as though its questioning rigors were too taxing—again, likely referencing how professional medicine stigmatized queerness at the time.
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His works have been associated strongly with 19th century Romanticism as they recall the writing of J.K. Huysmans and Oscar Wilde in their barely-concealed queerness, abounding with beautiful boys sipping wine in verdant nature scenes.
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Despite being an idol, The Artist was still a person, a person whose experiences rendered him not only a symbol of black queerness, but a product of the social and political realities he lived every day.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Against the backdrop of WorldPride and the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising, the impetus to scour the history of queerness and camp on film has rarely seemed so timely.
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But Waters has become a synecdoche for the city — the embrace of queerness, of "perversion" of all kinds, a stand-in for Baltimore's willingness to accept all comers and to make art out of whatever's around.
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Those days my best friend and I spent in India, wandering through a choreographed, red-rose, moonlit version of romance without knowing the routine, was a premonition of queerness before my own queer life got underway.
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And if we follow Lavery's interpretation, one does not need to make too much of an interpretative effort to understand that the heart of the matter actually is a parody of Victorian uptight mores regarding queerness.
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We've come a long way since Tennessee Williams and Edward Albee had to dance around the question, both in their lives and in their work, where they used increasingly strained metaphors to describe their inner queerness.
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So when Stephen Colbert recently asserted his masculinity by saying he was "man enough" to trade insults with the president in a monologue for The Late Show, he relied on queerness as the pinnacle of humiliation.
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"I talk a lot about queerness in my comedy, trying to debunk myths and stereotypes people may have about me," 32-year-old bisexual poet and stand-up comedian Stephanie Chan told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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Maggie — whose queerness her mother openly disdained — decides to personally deliver these mysterious messages, and, in doing so, discovers she might not have known her mother, or her seemingly perfect marriage to her father, at all.
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Queerness has always been embedded in Murphy's shows, but The Politician is one of the showrunner's more recent creative endeavors that actually feels grounded in reality, which is especially surprising considering the show is audaciously satirical.
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"A lot of the resources out there right now feel very catered to an antiquated idea of queerness, or an arbitrary, binary idea of like, This is lesbian, this is gay, rainbow flags everywhere," Enriquez says.
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It also featured the single "Follow Your Arrow," which made it clear from the beginning that Musgraves wasn't trying to sneak her embrace of queerness in the back door of subtext; she placed it front and center.
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I feel like I've been finding language to talk about my queerness and my heritage through my genetic parents—who again I don't know super well—but I feel like I'm approaching that for the first time.
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But in the years since, the queerness of the US women's national soccer team has only grown more visible — so visible, in fact, that it's pretty much impossible for even the densest of straight people to ignore.
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But then I remember that's how I used to feel about the first phase of my queerness, too, for the years that I tentatively tried to claim something I feared no one else would let me claim.
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We were packed in together and surrounded by those who protested, with those who were fighting with us to make Wyoming a safer place for queerness, with stereotypical "cowboy" Wyoming men alongside queer individuals and queer couples.
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But by 2012, the term had reached the ears of marketing machines and retailers and it seemed like Urban Outfitters was trying to sell queerness back to me for a price heftier than an inflated sales tag.
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When Susie's farmer dad (Adrian Hough) suggests queerness or androgyny could be a "personal demon" that leads to dire physical illness in episode "An Exorcism In Greendale," Susie attempts to overcompensate for their own former androgynous style.
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One thing it does reveal is that Queer and trans* Muslim cultural producers are ready to be a part of something bigger, we are self identifying and also redefining queerness, we are owning it as an idea.
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For a series known for its realistic and unflinching portrayal of poverty and crime in Baltimore, it would be easy to overlook the fact that Gregg's queerness came without any sense of internal conflict and external antagonism.
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"It became a cool avenue to explore my queerness in a small town," and may explain his ever-changing hair (all evidenced on Instagram in the last six months: braid extensions, shoulder-length blowout, a natural Afro).
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Hugo Gyrl is a Brooklyn-born queer graffiti artist based in New Orleans whose work reclaims public space for LGBTQ people and women, reminding viewers that queerness has always been tied to rebellion and fighting for visibility.
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" Elsewhere, Frank Ocean's Blonde explores the invisible queer in 2016's modern society, with Noisey's own Emma Garland noting that "an album like this feels at once perfectly timed and profoundly beyond our culture's comprehension of queerness.
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The movie is so unwilling to treat Mercury's queerness with any degree of respect that it doesn't even bother to get the timeline of his coming-out right, let alone explore that process with sensitivity or interest.
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But, where my queerness hadn't made us closer, my transition — the sheer impossibility of changing gender — eventually tore a hole in our shared reality, one through which we could talk about the ways we'd both been broken.
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According to historians and original records, the pilgrims founded an unusually queer society—one that wasn't straight-up accepting of all that queerness, per se, but had a more complicated relationship with it than you might think.
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We wanted to make a film that celebrates queerness, transness, and these amazing athletes who have a positive story to tell—as opposed to the tragic stories that we hear a lot about from the queer community.
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The biggest thing I have learned this year, because I am a diehard feminist and I am so into queerness and I am realizing every day the blindspots I have had towards racial inequality in this country.
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Shining the spotlight on the beauty of moss, celebrating its formlessness, queerness, and preference for dark and secret places, Büttner not only questions moss's status as an inferior species, but the practice of creating hierarchies at all.
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An installation without a beginning or end, ektor garcia's kriziz (intentionally lowercased as an assertion of queerness) is full of contradictions analogous to 17th century curiosity cabinets, with their wild mash-ups of natural and handmade objects.
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In the face of those who will demand that we repress our queerness, what's most important for the future of queer lives under Trump is that we continue to come out, stay out, and show that we exist.
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Meanwhile, much like Feldstein's approach to talking about her sexuality, Booksmart at once centers its characters' queerness while also treating it as a simple fact, not an issue to be surmounted or hardship that has to be endured.
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These are just a few examples that illustrate how, through the work of time, a punishing alchemy of public policy and cultural mores has made queerness proximate to repulsiveness, to something that must be reined in: It's criminal.
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New this year will be a Special Projects program curated by William J. Simmons, highlighting themes of gender, queerness, and feminism, featuring contributions from Jill Soloway and Judy Chicago, Eve Fowler, Hayden Dunham, Carolee Schneemann, and Betty Tompkins.
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As Poles prepare to elect their representatives to the European Parliament on May 26th, in what parties see as a rehearsal for a national parliamentary election in the autumn, PiS has reviled queerness, backed by the Catholic church.
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I talked to scholars about the history of queerness in comics, and they told me that while there's a rich tradition of LGBTQ representation in underground comics, Kickass Drag Queen is pretty much unlike anything else out there.
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Wills' intimacy and connection with the queens, palpable from behind the camera, is among the defining features of Black Divaz, which spools out equally as an interrogation of Indigeneity in LGBTQ communities and of queerness in Indigenous communities.
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I've admired black queer collectives like House of Ladosha, Brooklyn rappers like Jay Boogie and Quay Dash, all of whom take cues from Aaliyah and use those references to elevate queerness through their music, art, and curated events.
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With such a powerful re-adjustment of perspectives, Maleficent foretold of more old narratives to be looked at with a female gaze, with new lines of desire—including lesbianism and other kinds of female queerness—to be redrawn.
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They're still going to be catering toward a largely cis and straight audience that is open to mainly seeing the non-threatening forms of queerness we've been socialized to accept, like feminine lesbians and white, cis gay men.
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O. 2020 seems to be the year of the hybrid memoir, and Doty's is a masterful example — weaving a close reading of Whitman's life and writings into Doty's own ruminations on art, queerness, humanism, and the American experience.
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A lot of queer women have always loved and seen ourselves in the USWNT, but this was the year it felt like it burst into the open — and other fans started seeing and celebrating the team's queerness, too.
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Their excellent debut album, "Ugly Cherries," is rife with hilarious and heartbreaking coming-of-age anthems of queerness, yet sharp, melodic tunes like "Dairy Queen" and "I Wanna Boi" will appeal to just about anyone, regardless of sexuality.
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"I've gotten everything from 'I thought she was a lesbian' to 'she was using queerness to promote her career, then went and betrayed us with a man' to 'her baby father is just a sperm donor," she said.
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In his book, he sets out to make visible the "forces that rendered my blackness criminal, my black manhood vile, my black queerness sinful," he writes, but despite the cruelty he faced, he suffuses his memoir with humanity.
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For Black women, the working definition of kink—sexual behavior that defies cultural norms—leaves so much for discovery, considering the forces that aim to stifle our exploration of fetishes, queerness, and other essential pieces of what sex is.
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The Joanne narrative didn't have the cultural resonance of Gaga's earlier, more deliberately strange and provocative commentaries on fame — which started to look quaint in the reality television era — or her use of queerness as a metaphor for outsiderness.
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Most recently, two books of scholarship have focused on the interrelationship between autism and language: Melanie Yergeau's Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness, and Julia Miele Rodas's Autistic Disturbances: Theorizing Autism Poetics from the DSM to Robinson Crusoe.
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While promoting the film, Chalamet and Hammer (who are both straight) spoke more respectfully but cautiously about their characters' queerness than anything else, and even director Luca Guadagnino (who is gay) spoke about wanting to tell a "universal" story.
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But it's a decision supported by homophobia and outdated, incorrect views about queerness, which are the only reasons that Bert and Ernie shouldn't join the pantheon of officially sanctioned Sesame Street Muppet couples—right next to Oscar and Grundgetta.
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Judging by the heated reaction to my criticism of the film's portrayal of queerness, many of Bohemian Rhapsody's fans were entirely satisfied by its depiction of the band and of Mercury, and found the film deeply enjoyable, almost soothing.
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And whether he's at the brunt of discrimination within his own community for the way he dresses or accepting an award for using his queerness for good, Dorfman is a walking, talking example that style amplifies who he is.
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The absence of those familiar queer tropes (unfulfilled longing, society's deep homophobia, explicit identification) may be exhilarating and important for some, delivering a narrative on queerness that doesn't need designation and, for once, isn't defined by experiences of prejudice.
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I'm sure they were always there, living their lives in whispers, but seeing them out on the streets declaring their queerness was a moving sight—an opportunity that had only been afforded to them by the passing of time.
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But, in the current political environment, Armstrong says, the artists were approaching the show as a celebration of queerness and a self-conscious rebuke to the explicitly anti-LGBT people who are coming to DC with the new administration.
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But what made Broad City special — what makes it so hard for some of us to say goodbye after the show aired its final episode on Thursday — was how it centered queerness, particularly bisexual queer identities, at its heart.
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Koh: The Legend of Korra: Turf Wars has a lot of neat little history and cultural information that wasn't touched on in previous Avatar narratives—how different regions treat queerness, the personal histories of supporting characters, and so on.
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The plot of As I Descended both hinges on the characters' queerness and transcends it—there's nothing about the book that would be inaccessible to a straight reader, but same-sex romance is an inextricable part of its plot.
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Her article, which won support from other academics and writers, demonstrates how intersectional thinkers, amidst their well-intentioned efforts to raise up the voices of marginalized queer people, often needlessly sideline and diminish the queerness of their privileged counterparts.
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Studies have shown that homophobia can sometimes be an acting out of an intent to control the homophobe's own same-sex desires, that to oppress or silence queerness in others is a perverted attempt to silence it in oneself.
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The fact that Heather is being hounded by the paparazzi for a fling with pop star Tracy (Greta Lee) further mires their romantic possibilities in a way that reminds one of how queerness can still jeopardize a film career.
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And, most importantly for his fans, he's kicked open a space for queerness in digital music during a time when the remnants of brostep, male-centered pop house and the tired sexism of dance culture still haven't completely shifted.
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The show follows two women: Leila, a young South Asian woman played by Nabila Hossain, who is exploring her queerness for the first time, and her best friend Patricia (Sonia Denis), a black musician working through her commitment issues.
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One barista points out the coffee shop has been "remodeled," a joke on the show's new context, its move from black-box theater to glass-walled art museum lobby, but also nods to queerness itself as perpetually in flux.
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Paradoxically, with all this queerness in vogue, only 1.3 percent of women actually identify as lesbian, according to the US Department of Health and Human Services' National Health Statistics Reports, while 17.4 percent have had same-sex sexual contact.
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The reason why we see these risings of people who employ queerness in their performance and appearance again and again and again is because Little Richard created the mold for such things to happen again and again and again.
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I think of Stonewall as a space where queerness can flourish because it's off the radar and those kinds of small queer spaces continue to exist — maybe not so much bars, but salons in people's homes and other places.
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And because Bohemian Rhapsody hasn't done due diligence in portraying queer identity as something more than shamefaced fashion choices and surreptitious visits to clubs, "it" becomes the only thing the audience is allowed to take away from Mercury's queerness.
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" Her work is built upon that of her teacher, the academic José Esteban Muñoz, who famously theorized that queerness is, by its very nature, not-yet-here — "that thing that lets us feel that this world is not enough.
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They also abide by the classic cultural association of queerness with deviance and subversion — and what could be more subversive than springing an illicit, passionate 1950s love affair between Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara upon an unsuspecting old couple?
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So while we can easily indicate that we are going overboard with femininity or queerness by draping ourselves in swaths of pink or lavender, there's no real equivalent for masculinity; swaths of blue wouldn't have quite the same effect.
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It sort of ties in with what we were talking about with academia—the people that were my best friends, who I came out to, that I was playing these shows with did not have the vocabulary around queerness.
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Feelings of depression and thoughts of suicide shook me from time to time, but somewhere along that voyage of self-discovery, my experiences in nightclubs taught me more about the relationship between classism, racism, and queerness than I ever thought possible.
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The documentary takes its most interesting turn when the women discuss Selena's possible repressed queerness, and her rumored relationship with her killer Yolanda Saldivar, as well as the significance of Selena dying while clutching the ring Yolanda had given her.
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"We have planned a route to dance through Pence's neighborhood and celebrate queerness, leaving behind traces of rainbow and glitter that he is bound to see and never forget," Firas Nasr, a representative from WerkForPeace, told Mashable in an email.
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But many younger celebrities are coming into their fame while being openly queer already; instead of waiting around to see if they're going to claim their queerness, we get to watch them figure out what they're going to do with it.
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His week with the Fab Five seems to be the first significant amount of time he's spent with other gay men outside his immediate circle, talking openly about femininity, masculinity, queerness, and the challenge of living authentically, however that may look.
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In fact, Dream Daddy is part of what seems to be a growing trend of works marketed to fandom that present fantastical or optimistic depictions of male/male queerness for a primarily female audience (think Yuri on Ice and Check, Please!).
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Paradoxically, though Cunanan was — as the show points out — uncomfortable about his racial identity as half Filipino and his lower-middle-class standing, he seemed by all accounts publicly untroubled by his queerness, despite growing up in the '70s and '80s.
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"It's an interesting conversation within queer spaces, because so many queer people (myself included) feel that they were 'born this way,' and their queerness is inherently connected to their inner wiring," Lindsay Amer, an LGBTQ+ activist and educator, tells Refinery29.
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The unsung queerness of art from the late 19th and early 20th centuries reveals a critical censure within LGBTQ history that propagates a popular false belief that homosexuality in America miraculously sprung into existence during the Stonewall riots of 1969.
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The forthcoming issue intends to address the limits of queerness outside normative white contexts, and how decolonization and the schema of radical liberation might provide new context to how LGBTQ culture operates in regions like Latin America and the Global South.
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In a world where queerness still often renders people unemployable, Pride offers opportunities for revenue and employment for LGBTQ+ people, including many of the very people who nurture independent queer culture in the city during the rest of the year.
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Spacey's queerness had been rumored to the point of being borderline public knowledge for years, but he was also part of an old-school Hollywood marketing machine that kept stars closeted to sell movies and increase their middle-American appeal.
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Lor Choc has created her own sound by combining her queerness, her pride in being a daughter of Baltimore, and her lifelong love of rap and R&B to make music centered around themes of escapism, survival, and city life.
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More than the art itself, the show acts as a reminder of the history of the contemporary LGBTQ rights movement—its highs and lows, and the surprising revelations that can be gained from taking in decades of queerness all at once.
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Who I do or do not date isn't going to solve racism, but if I really am as woke as I say am, I have to unpack how my Blackness and queerness influence the way I see myself and potential partners.
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" The Boulet Brothers agree, with Swanthula saying, "Older generations know what it's like to not be supported or accepted for their queerness, so if young people doing drag makes things easier for future queer generations, then we are all for it.
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Offering everything from LGBTQ-friendly liturgy for weddings, funerals or retreats to individual consultation as one navigates the often murky holy waters of one's queerness and faith, Enfleshed aims to help bring churches and faith practices into the 21st century.
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We heard, for instance, of how they discovered Karen Carpenter (after flunking a family softball game) and how the singer's nontraditional femininity helped shape Mx. Bond's conception of "queerness" — "I'm on the opposite end of the gender speculum," they quipped.
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Many of the same themes and obsessions haunt both books: Violence is one, whether from the American war in Vietnam (Vuong himself is Vietnamese-American), or from within the family; queerness is another; the body itself; race; ecstasy and joy.
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After all, it was his choice to live at the crossroads of mainstream culture and queer culture, to subvert the cultural exploitation of queerness by transcending it and embracing his personal and sexual power, that made him who he was.
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In the hands of a more conscientious screenwriter, Bohemian Rhapsody could have afforded an opportunity for all of Queen's fans to better understand their hero by showing us how his choice to embrace his queerness shaped and informed his art.
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Arnett is interested in writing about "how queerness functions inside a household," and Jessa-Lynn's efforts to understand her family, and her own emotional and sexual life, are the novel's primary concerns — and they work in concert with the family business.
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There are hints that early in her career the theater played a significant role in a relationship with a female friend — possibly a lover — but these, like so many potential threads linking Hansberry's queerness with her art, are left unexplored.
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Later, as a teenager struggling with her sexual identity, Ms. Bechdel found one of the Amphigoreys, the omnibus collections that introduced Mr. Gorey to a wider readership starting in the 1970s, and the latent queerness she read in his work resonated.
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Enter Bess Khan, a prostitute of South Asian descent who helps Jack realize his ambition as "King Screwsman" by encouraging his ever more daring heists — like stealing from London's ruthless "Thief-Catcher General," Jonathan Wild — as well as his emerging queerness.
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Taylor, who like Wallace trained in science before becoming a writer, is as keen an observer as his subject is, and he writes with extraordinary precision: about the academy, and queerness, and race, and trauma, and ambivalent friendship, and desire.
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But what she didn't write then — explicitly autobiographical essays, or fiction — is also telling; like her polemical opposition to interpretation, Sontag's early avoidance of those forms makes more sense when you look at it through the lens of her queerness.
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In the '80s, Sontag wrote in her journal about how her "inability to write narrative fiction comes from an inability (perhaps, more accurately, a reluctance) to love," once again connecting her writing and queerness in ways that Moser doesn't unpack.
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Taking a look at the LGBTQ Game Archive's and Queerly Represent Me's pages for Fire Emblem as a series shows that the queerness seen and experienced in these games is often found more in player queering and interpretation than explicit inclusion.
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In the 20+ years since the film, roots have become an inside joke in the community to discuss things like pop culture phenomena we were drawn to in our youth that were obvious indicators of our queerness, before we ourselves knew.
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In this next incarnation, out of respect to the changing gender landscape of our queer and literary communities, Sister Spit welcomes artists of all genders, so long as they mesh with the groups historic vibe of feminism, queerness, humor, and provocation.
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But I think they're starting with artists who might be exploring themes of queerness or resisting dominant paradigms in their work or artists who, there may be aspects of their work that might already be inviting a certain kind of controversy.
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As the foundational leader of LGBTQ liberation Harry Hay would have taught us long ago, if we didn't all come up through an educational system that actively tried to erase our queer heroes, capitalism is the first enemy of queerness.
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A great view of combat in Xena: The show started out a little bit more straight 90s action-adventure, but as it progressed, it was campy as all get-out, and almost, kind of, sort of acknowledged the queerness of its heroines.
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A Flavorwire list of famous male bisexuals relies more on hearsay than actual admissions of queerness (and casts a really wide net, including everyone from Malcolm X to Christopher Hitchens to the filmmaker behind Rebel Without A Cause in the list of celebs).
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Again, this would be enough, but the film has also faced heated criticism for its approach to Freddie Mercury's queerness and sexuality, and a tweet trashing the objectively atrocious editing of a key ensemble scene in the film went viral last month.
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This concept is nothing new—the best pop music exists on multiple levels—but the difference with these songs is that queerness is blatantly manifest within them; they speak to the queer listener, and ask others to search for meaning between the lines.
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Lindsey-Ali's work comes at a time of increasing resources, discussions, and celebrations of Muslim women's sexuality in media, including books like The Muslimah Sex Manual: A Halal Guide to Mind Blowing Sex and Yumna Al-Arashi's photography celebrating Muslim queerness and pleasure.
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One of the most puzzling and complicated cases of anti-gay sentiment in the genre is Odd Future's Tyler, the Creator, a well-known name in hip-hop who has simultaneously denigrated and hinted at his own apparent queerness for years now.
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There is now a thematic pattern emerging that connects many (although not all) of the "prestige" queer films that break out of indie circuits and reach the top tier of mainstream recognition: They tell stories about queerness through the lens of masculine emotion.
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Because these male characters only depart from traditional narratives of desire in their own desire for other men (rather than embodying other potential aspects of queerness, like gender nonconformity) the production can cast straight-presenting, conventionally attractive actors with the widest possible appeal.
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Two of these films, Gay Chorus Deep South and The Gospel of Eureka, deal with the relationship between queer and Evangelical communities in the American South, examining performances tied to both queerness and religion to reveal the intersections between them and challenge stereotypes.
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Related: Hieronymus Bosch's 'Garden of Earthly Delights' Is Now a VR Universe Visit Bosch's 'Garden of Earthly Delights' Inside a Gorgeous Web Tour Jazz Age Queerness Comes to Life In Lush Paintings Bosch's 'Garden of Earthly Delights' Inspires an Augmented Reality App
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It is divided into six themes—Installation; The Outmoded; Noir America; Place and Identity; Touch, Intimacy, and Queerness; and Space, Place, and Scale—that explore the ways in which the economy, sexuality, race, politics, place, and the beginning of internet transformed the 90s.
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Sugar also detailed some of the obstacles she faced behind the scenes at Cartoon Network, most persistently the harmful idea that queerness is somehow "adult content" — despite, like the heterosexual Muppets of Sesame Street, straight romance being deemed unthreatening to young audiences.
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We've spoken to a few of those brands ahead on what their labels add to the current market, how gender identity and expression have contributed (or not) to their brand's ethos, and if, ultimately, queerness has found its place in high fashion.
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Desire and death intermingle underneath every poem in Sam Sax's Bury It. It is an elegy for queerness, which so much of the world seems intent on destroying, written with the spate of young gay suicides during the summer of 2010 in mind.
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"It's something that has always comforted me when I was going through my process of discovering my queerness, and helped me to overcome the shame and the feeling of being pushed away from my culture," Geedi says in their Limit(less) interview.
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That's to say, the women are never situated in a politically-informed landscape, their queerness is never policed or shamed; none of the tropes of queer stories that we have come to expect as viewers are present beyond the same-sex coupling.
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Her queerness can be read as a complication here, another factor that she keeps in the dark (like her power), another thing that makes her special or simply different from the rest of her family, despite all their shared secrets and psychic pain.
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I think that's related to this larger, expanding understanding of what queerness is—you can be straight and cisgender, but still embody a bit of a queer energy, and we shouldn't bar someone from our party just because of who they are.
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The project has a socio-political mission that many parties of this sort lack: challenging the mainstream porn industry's misogyny, exploitive treatment of its workers, and fetishistic views on race and sexuality by creating an alternative model based on inclusivity and queerness.
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They began having long conversations, stoking each other's artistic practices, dissecting the inseparable intersections of their identities, and discussing what—beyond sexuality—queerness meant to them: In part, not existing with the rigid confines of prescribed identity labels and ways of being.
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Because of my queerness, I could never fully feel like I was part of this culture, but that doesn't take away from the fact that I grew up in a doublewide trailer at the mouth of a holler in rural West Virginia.
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However, many people, myself included, had arrived early to catch a performance by Young Boy Dancing Group—a collective of contemporary dancers from across Europe whose performances are a mishmash of queerness and techno-futurism that could only exist in our digital age.
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The person he thinks is an admirer turns out to be a member of a group of gay activists who perform a parody of his brother's single "Drip Drop" in a circle around him, accusing him of flip-flopping on his queerness.
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Themes of hunger and hiddenness recur in all three narratives: the shape-shifters' yearning for human connection apart from violence; the self-protective camouflages of multiracialism and nonbinary queerness and womanhood amid patriarchy; the desperation of traditionalists when faced with inevitable change.
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And yet a few months later, "Person of Interest" aired its second death of a queer lead, after finally reuniting her with her partner — who had, it should be mentioned, been shot and presumed dead immediately after confirming her queerness the season before.
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She wants to look beyond the heartbreak and tragedy that haunts popular LGBTQIA narratives in order to find moments of joy, humor, and love, focusing on fuller depictions of queerness because, as a gamer, she says she's not really finding it anywhere else.
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Despite the black roots of rock 'n' roll music and culture, these stars' expression have freed young white people, generation after generation, but imprisoned Little Richard inside guilt because of the belief that his queerness and what he had created was against God.
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But her application of it seems contradictory, especially when she assumes "heterosexuality" is bad, and, earlier in our conversation, Chu observed, "Queerness is used in certain academic circles as a master term for subversion or resistance"—pretty much a leftist moral currency.
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It wasn't until I was 9 or 0003 that I found out that the dominant story of queerness — as told by family, church, school, neighbors and books like the tortured 1928 lesbian novel "The Well of Loneliness" — was that it was Bad.
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Even with all the recent attention paid to the long centering of "white feminism," the movement is still grappling to understand the ways race, social class, education, and queerness play into the systemic and everyday problems women of color and nonbinary people face.
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Still Processing With Rita Ora, Janelle Monáe, Kehlani — and even fictional characters like Lando Calrissian — embracing bisexuality, pansexuality, queerness, and more, we wonder: what does it mean to publicly declare your sexual identity as something outside the gay/straight binary in 22?
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Outsiderness was McCullers's great theme, one that's inextricable from the quest for identity and self-definition, and while none of her protagonists were out of the closet, it's hard to read her work now and not see queerness as a central part.
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As Jack Halberstam explained in The Queer Art of Failure, the refusal of heteronormative success is a constitutive part of queerness — not merely because queers may choose alternative lifestyles, but also because pathways toward traditional markers of success have been barred from us.
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Some under the wider Christian umbrella believe full and affirmative inclusion of LGBTQ people and relationships within the church, is necessary — to them, queerness is not simply something to be tolerated but rather an expression of the rich diversity of divine creation.
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I'd connected with my first real Toronto ally in an environment that allowed me to build a stronger sense of my queerness amongst like-minded people, a community that felt less toxic than the mostly straight party circles I had found myself in before.
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For queer fans, this can be extremely frustrating—meaningful queer narratives are already so scarce in film and TV that when a show hints at queerness then tears it away, it sends a message that these stories aren't important enough to be told outright.
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In retrospect, that boss was following the same playbook that Delevingne alleges Weinstein was, though in a less extreme, more subtle way: doubting my queerness, signaling that I should stop talking about it already; then, in private, twisting it into something for him to consume.
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Combining memoir with literary and queer theory as well as poetic prose, Nelson's book explores the challenges of starting a family as a queer woman with her genderqueer partner, in an era when the definitions of family, queerness, and parenthood are politicized and rapidly changing.
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Before the band ever even dropped a track, Lucy came out swinging on places like Twitter and Instagram, pronouncing her queerness and gender fluidity, and foreshadowing the distinct possibility that Primal Rite was going to be something unlike the hardcore scene had ever faced before.
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Yes, representation is growing (The CW as a whole boasts many queer characters, and is developing a series with Ruby Rose as a lesbian Batwoman) but it's frustrating when queerness is hinted at to entice, rather than to be explored in any real way.
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This isn't some trippy club experience, this is #unit festival, which combines the markings of a tech conference with a focus on queerness, a concept that includes not just LGBT people but also those who don't identify with strict gender binaries of male and female.
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Films like Beauty and the Beast, Power Rangers, and Alien: Covenant gave us characters who were kindasortamaybe in same-sex relationships — holding the dread specter of (gasp) queerness at arm's length lest some homophobes in one of the all-important four quadrants get upset.
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But that so many people's minds — some of whom insisted that they were in no way homophobic, and how dare anyone imply otherwise — immediately went there paints a pretty damning picture of society's widespread inability to see queerness as anything other than vulgar and sexual.
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For a discussion about the relationship between queerness, decolonialiality, culture, and politics, we invited Pierce onto the Hyperallergic Art Movements podcast to share some insight into how he and other academics are trying to evolve queer studies into a more open field of inquiry.
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Despite our love for our favourite performers, it's still daunting as an LGBTQ+ fan to be reminded that the South Korean entertainment industry, much like many others around the world, still approaches actual, open, non-performative queerness with a strong "don't ask, don't tell" policy.
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Ryan Murphy's Pose, the new FX series set against the garish 80s backdrop of New York City's drag ballroom scene, has an acute understanding of this dichotomy: "family" takes a looser and otherwise transcendent meaning, alternately defined in the language of queerness and rejection.
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Kara is perplexed when Alex tries to tell her she's gay, and asks if Alex has ever even been with a girl, another thing straight people tend to do, suggesting that you need experience to really know, that you need to prove your queerness.
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Utah's DOH did point out, however, that research by the Family Acceptance Project, a research and policy initiative, showed that queer youth facing rejection at home are at an "exceptional" risk for suicide—and rejection epitomizes the Church of Latter-day Saint's attitude toward queerness.
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The promise of sand and heat had made me trade my usual hijab for a snapback worn backward to cover most of my hair, and in my T-shirt, sports bra, and low-hanging athletic pants, my queerness and gender non-conformity are most visible.
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Suddenly there is a jolt of energy, even if our curiosity is aroused as much by what's said as by what's not — in the program, for instance, Hamdi mentions performing at the Criminal Queerness Festival, and you might wonder how his Syrian family reacted.
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It can be soul-draining over time, though, to hear creators and directors assure audiences after the fact that queerness does exist in their work; they just didn't apparently want to take the last step of, you know, putting it onscreen in any meaningful way.
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Looking back now, I can attribute my constant style-shuffling at least in part to latent queerness; I knew I was different, but I wasn't yet quite sure how, and so I spent a lot of time searching for a self-image that made sense.
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" Evan Townsend, one of the event's organizers and a researcher at the station, told NewNowNext that it's important "to see that there are queer people out there who are proud of their queerness and that in no way inhibits them from living these adventures.
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Like in all of Solano's work, "Blood and Homosexuals" — a phrase attributed to his aunt that is also the title of a particularly tense diptych — are front and center in this show; they serve as shorthands for HIV and queerness, the artist's curse and blessing.
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The panelists then proceeded to complicate feminism, its politics and community, its relation to queerness and race, and its tendencies toward exclusivity (as certain groups define women's issues according to their own experience, leaving out those of other classes, other sexual orientations, or other colors).
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I don't experience a 'fluidity' in my gender identity, so much as a constant state of queerness (it's not so much that I'm multiple genders or back and forth between genders as it is that none of them quite fit and it all feels a little queer).
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"Giving visibility to transness and queerness is a powerful and important thing that should absolutely be happening more," Novy told Hyperallergic Novy, a Wisconsin native who currently resides in Los Angeles, is widely known for his stenciled images of koi fish, which appear throughout numerous US cities.
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Though steeped in protest, the fashions and fads of this era were also frilly and decadent, luxuriant in materials and elaborate in construction — a sartorial mode that deftly underscores the exhibition's "queerness," both in the broad, countercultural sense, and in the more specific sense of sexual identity.
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A survivor of familial exile as a result of her sexuality, Emma's queerness is still a secret when she comes home — a home once defined by rejection and punishment for her queer desires, but now the location of an unofficial lesbian bar at risk of disappearing.
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What's exciting about Charm is that it embraces the shades of gray as Mama's conception of queerness runs afoul of a more modern, progressive understanding of gender identity — while Mama advocates for a gender binary to avoid confusing people, the center where she works celebrates fluidity.
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Concepts like intersectionality, queerness, white privilege, and gender performance arose because the lack of vocabulary to talk about identity was so frustrating to early feminists of all stripes, and these roots transformed the discipline into a place where disagreement was seen as productive and necessary, not destructive.
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I personally left the theater feeling that to simply swap one for the other is to fictionalize a society in which the personal is not political, and in which all the parts of queerness that go beyond the technicalities of who you fuck, somehow no longer matter.
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My first album Between Two Selves was an extremely personal album that was me working through anxiety, relationships, queerness, and wanting to be out (mostly coded though), and even some of my first work, like the Let Me See You EP were tied to personal experiences.
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Though queerness, as both material reality and theoretical possibility, offers a rejection of normativity, or even the idea of linear narratives, this milestone is nonetheless a reminder of how queer expression on film has changed and left an indelible mark on both cinematic and queer history.
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What makes "Giovanni's Room" radical is Baldwin's refusal to cleave to what the larger literary establishment thought he ought to write about: He was a black man who dared to write a white protagonist; he was a gay man who dared to put queerness on the page.
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Last Sunday, February 19, in a discussion moderated by DJ and artist Juliana Huxtable, DJ Sprinkles and Honey Dijon shared how society's changing attitude toward gender and queerness influences music, and the role that music and the club scene played in their conception of the self.
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Another colleague, Shannon Keating, wrote an essay in 2016 about the societal pressure on LGBT pop stars like Halsey to downplay their queerness, which Halsey seemed to interpret as a suggestion that she was "not gay enough," resulting in a predictable Twitter hell as the star's fans piled on.
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Despite the somewhat sensationalizing premise and its potential land mines, the resulting show — four episodes in — is already one of the more provocative entries in reality dating TV, where queerness has previously been treated as the topic of a "special episode" add-on or as a scandalous plot twist.
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" Shannon Keating wrote an excellent opinion piece on the complications of national pride, starting with the queerness of the US women's national soccer team, "which has only grown more visible — so visible, in fact, that it's pretty much impossible for even the densest of straight people to ignore.
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It is a scene that complicates white narratives about "the closet" and the cultural differences that make those labels not quite so neat for Latinas by showing characters for whom queerness is not a matter of "out" or "in," but rather something connected to cultural misogyny and generational trauma.
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I also feel that many of these people were, in themselves, in the way they presented themselves in daily life, Wilde or Quentin Crisp, Radclyffe Hall and Gertrude Stein, all living embodiments of a queerness that more ordinary folk could marvel at and learn from, maybe even imitate.
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It's chimeric: a meditation on the construction of masculinity, masochism, the psychology of desire, queerness, as well as the simultaneous erasure and development of the feminine in men loving and desiring each other; it also meditates on the fine lines between love, being loved, fucking, and being fucked.
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" In his statement on this decision to ARTnews, Leslie Lohman's executive director Gonzalo Casals stated that the name change represents "what the vision of the future of the museum is"; the new name is "as expansive as the concept of queerness, so that everyone feels welcome to the museum.
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"This record is the summation of a years-long obsession with capitalism's slow and frictional courtship of queerness: of the focus on marriage instead of healthcare, of erasure where remembrance is due, of an inflamed prejudice among the first let into the club," Harwood told THUMP via email.
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Blake's latest curatorial project, currently on view at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, is a show called "Tag: Proposals on Queer Play and the Ways Forward," which presents the work of little-known and emerging queer artists and celebrates the shape-shifting nature of queerness itself.
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It's unclear whether she realizes how Gardner himself has a pull on Will, but the episode then cuts to a scene of the two men having passionate sex, which is yet another link back to the Watchmen comics where Hooded Justice and Captain Metropolis' queerness was present, but subtextual.
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Like a Love Story Abdi Nazemian Dubbed a "love letter to queerness" by children's author Mackenzi Lee, Like a Love Story centers on the tangle of a relationship between Reza, an Iranian boy struggling with his sexuality, Judy, Reza's girlfriend, and Art, the only openly queer kid at school.
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To my mind, we are in an era where it's no longer possible to impose a unifying or singular feminism or queerness across broad groups and communities — they are too non-specific to be useful at a large scale, having been adopted and co-opted too many times.
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When you consider the fact that only 48% of young Americans aged 13-20 identify as exclusively heterosexual and 49% of British 18-24 year old's define themselves as something other than "straight", an album like this feels at once perfectly timed and profoundly beyond our culture's comprehension of queerness.
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Part of the reason for this cluelessness is a serious lack of accurate, holistic portrayals of queerness in popular media, especially TV.Most of the shows that portray LGBT characters, like Modern Family, The Fosters, and even Orange Is the New Black are rooted in heteronormative family structures or simplistic relationship models.
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Unlike To All the Boys, however, which purposely stayed away from the conventional tale of identity as a burden, Love, Simon was stuck — like many other LGBT films this year, as Adam Vary pointed out — in the usual convention of representing queerness through stories about coming out of the closet.
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What sets Young's history apart, beyond his painstaking research and conversational voice, is his focus on the role of race and queerness in these lies: Why was Joice Heth, the enslaved woman made to pose as a 161-year-old wet nurse to George Washington, the key to P.T. Barnum's fame?
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If anything, The End of Eddy complicates the lazy conventional wisdom that frames political debates as struggles between identity politics and economic issues; it reminds us that not only do poverty and queerness coexist in individual lives, but that the ways these positions are enforced and punished can look very similar.
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Even big budget romantic comedies that make great strides in mainstreaming queerness, like Love Simon, don't quite get at the exhilaration of fully possessing your sexuality—not simply coyly testing the waters or facing the emotional turmoil of coming out, but actively understanding the power of same-sex seduction and flirtation.
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"While both of us are equally frustrated (by) the bullshit sexist pretense (that it's) impossible for men and women to be platonic friends, I often feel like my queerness, something I fight for and am proud of, is being erased to better suit the narrative of straight people," LeBlanc said.
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With its purposeful playing on gender roles and traditional femme/masc dynamics, its ever-so-light-but-still-super-there foray into kink and leather aesthetics, its queerness, and—on the far more serious side—its raw depictions of trauma, healing, and difficult relationships, Farscape was all the way out there.
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Their performance art piece, "Farida," is "a political act" that addresses colonialism, misogyny and religious objections to non-binary identification, using movement, spoken word, Moroccan music and imagery (including representations of the hammam, a traditional public steam bath) — with the goal of finding the juncture of queerness and their heritage.
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At a time in my life when I was figuring out my own queerness, my own gender, my own relationship to love and family and the work of being a writer — all things, let's be real, I'm still figuring out — The Argonauts gave me permission to keep dreaming myself into being.
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Awakening, with its wild and fascinating parent-child system that prompts equal parts weird fantasy eugenics and dedicated dating sim-like shipping, hits many of the same notes for players that Persona's social links do, for example, and if anything Persona's inclusion of queerness is even worse than Fire Emblem's.
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But credit Hynes with connecting his romantic instability to a personal insecurity that in turn connects to what the larger society makes of his blackness and queerness—and for having the consciousness to insist that his blackness is rooted in Africa, and not just because his father was born there.
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But the way queerness works its way into Blond(e) is different to anything we've seen from Ocean, or any other popular male artist, before – whether it's Bowie toying with androgyny, Prince whipping up male and female energies into an erotic frenzy, or Perfume Genius blowing smoke directly in the face of homophobia.
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Being keenly aware of how society is innately programmed to uplift individuals like myself who move through the world presenting masculine, I have made it integral to uplift counter-narratives of dominant culture… yet it was not until after university that I felt compelled to research the intersection of my queerness and Indigeneity.
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Another friend, who wanted to stay anonymous, shared that when she was 19 and first becoming aware of her queerness, she dressed up as a male tourist for a quick, silly costume but started calling herself a "lesbian birdwatcher" halfway through the night, even though she hadn't personally identified as a lesbian yet.
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There are numerous real-world examples of how equating queerness to sexually explicit content continues to hurt and marginalize people — such as the many YouTube vloggers and creators who are constantly fighting against algorithms that incorrectly flag their queer content as "explicit" and "not safe for work" solely because it concerns queer people.
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The book, which features a significant gay male character, could be read both as a metaphor for queerness—the girl who doesn't fit in—and as an early, un-camp depiction of the fag hag, a woman who questions convention by avoiding it and finds safety in the company of gay men.
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"Queerness and the politics of failure are linked insofar as they are about doing 'something else,'" he wrote, that "something else" being a gesture toward a possibility not yet named, difficult to imagine because of how utopic in scale it could be and how limiting the inhibition of heteronormativity is on our imaginations.
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Elsewhere, the Chicago-based Boyland, 24, explores themes of queerness while focusing on the finer nuances of color and texture: the reflective surfaces of certain fabrics as they fold and drape across the body, or the way that skin can refract light into various tones, producing more colors than initially meet the eye.
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Whether it's Muna, Janelle Monáe, and St Vincent, who embody a fluid, all-encompassing queerness in the world of leftfield pop, or Halsey, Demi Lovato, and Kehlani, who are injecting some much-needed bisexual bops into the mainstream, Hayley Kiyoko is part of a newer, more visible generation of women queering up the charts.
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I can't claim to be nearly as much of a #Gaylor diehard as the true champions who've dedicated themselves to combing every last social media post, every public appearance, every exchange — however brief or seemingly insignificant — for evidence of Taylor's queerness (and/or evidence of a romantic relationship with her sometimes-BFF Karlie Kloss).
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"I would say that I am really lucky that I came into the industry at the time that I did — people were ready for it," Sivan told Variety, acknowledging how he has benefited from a cultural moment in which explicit explorations of queerness could be an asset to a performer, rather than a liability.
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There's a strong argument for why it's important that a show like Killing Eve, which has already made a lot of headway on these issues, should more explicitly invest in queerness by allowing Eve to clarify her feelings, and figure out what she really wants from Villanelle after pursuing her for a whole season.
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Today, when a great many arguments and complaints from the queer quarters of the political sphere have to do with what has been done to queerness by the patriarchy and by whiteness, Baldwin asks, in "Giovanni's Room," what love looks like, ultimately, when we leave all those bags at the door — and if we can.
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Tracing the steps of the man who some might consider to be the most influential showrunner in all of television — his unprecedented $300 million five-year Netflix deal is a testament to his power — shows how queerness has always permeated his work, albeit in ways that have evolved and been refined over the years.
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" She highlights that spending time with family members who hold beliefs that queerness is deviant and unnatural creates a unique drain for LGBTQ+ people during the holidays: "You'll usually have to tone down parts of yourself that may shock family members, you won't get to talk about anyone you're dating or be your full self.
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"People tend to find common ground between queerness and superhero narratives because oftentimes when you're marginalized you are hoping for a better world where you are accepted and where you are seen," said Roxane Gay, seminal writer of Bad Feminist and the recent World of Wakanda comics centered around a romance between two Dora Milaje warrior women.
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This room murmured appreciatively when Rami Malek talked about making a movie about a queer man — despite the fact that this particular movie largely sidestepped the queerness of that man — and everyone seemed to be happily ignoring that Bohemian Rhapsody has been mired in controversy because its director has been repeatedly accused of rape and sexual misconduct.
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But his decision not to engage with the context of the question also weirdly echoed the film's essentially shallow approach to queerness in general, reducing Elton John's overabundant life into the story of a troubled rock star learning to accept himself enough to come out to a world that had long surmised he was gay anyway.
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"I'm just like you" as an argument for equal treatment suggests that Simon Spier, or any other gay person, deserves respect and understanding by virtue of our similarities with straight people, rather than despite our differences — a construction we're still being fed in queer media that sets the limits of acceptable queerness at the border of heterosexual comfort.
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That would be true in any year, but to have this indefatigable celebration of queerness sashay into my home as the world began to feel so unrelentingly harsh and inhospitable — well, reader, when I say that RuPaul's Drag Race saved my life this spring, please know that I mean that with all of my gay, glittery heart.
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The Queen biopic was embroiled in its own controversy after it was criticized for its revisionist depictions of Freddie Mercury's queerness, drug use, and legendary sexual escapades, as well as major issues with initial director Bryan Singer, who has been accused of sexual misconduct and was fired from the film for failing to show up to work.
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In a world where online fandoms — many of which are often fueled by queer fans — are invaluable, television writers and showrunners for male ensemble shows like House, Merlin, and Sherlock have run afoul of fans by suggesting their characters' queerness without ever actually making them overtly gay — and by shutting fans down when they look for acknowledgment.
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He used this as a reason to dispute their implied queerness ("If you know the genesis of the characters, it's an absurd idea"), but it should be noted that Bert and Ernie appeared on the scene a year before the television version of The Odd Couple, which was noted for its queer subtext and sexual ambiguity.
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In the midst of the far right's newfound obsession with gay sexual predators in Hollywood and a roiling national conversation about sexual harassment and assault on the part of powerful men, gay or straight, Spacey apparently thought it would be a good time to link his queerness to allegations that he attempted to seduce a 14-year-old.
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And yet it's his voice—political, inconsolable—that we have the privilege of hearing once again in "Reza Abdoh" (at MOMA PS19883), the first large-scale retrospective devoted to this Iranian-born spinner of epic, omnivorous tales about queerness, AIDS , American TV and violence, the cult of celebrity, and the gay child's relationship to the patriarchy.
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True crime as a genre has often centered queer lives, but always, as Polchin observes, with queer characters as either the criminal or the victim of a terrible murder, involving either a secret and illicit love affair or an obsession, so that the moral of the story is that queerness and death are two faces of the same problem.
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The media hounded him for proof of his straightness, ridiculed his meteoric rise to fame, questioned his commitment to gender roles, and mocked him for the frank themes of his music — then excoriated him after his arrest and ignored him when he responded by leaning all the way into the media's longstanding depiction of his queerness.
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With lyrics that celebrate freedom, self-discovery, and being comfortable in one's own skin — including some that seem to wink at Styles' possible queerness, a theory bolstered by its super gay music video and the song's release on National Coming Out Day — "Lights Up" is the anthem that a fluid, new-age icon like Styles deserves.
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As a 29-year-old gay black man -- that is, as someone who's too young to remember queerness as an identity defined significantly by defeated desire and death but also old enough to know of the movement's achievements and that the work is far from over -- I find mining these different perspectives cathartic and even necessary.
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In his adopted home of Los Angeles, Harvey—who identifies as "queer, but not homosexual"—has been leading a charge alongside the likes of pansexual party palace A Club Called Rhonda for a newfangled queerness that does not discriminate according to particularities of orientation, subculture, fetish, or perversion, but favors weirdos of all ilks celebrating life together on one dancefloor.
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Here's the central tension: By reporting on a person's sexual orientation, are you refusing to treat queerness as something shameful, taboo, and "private" that should be hidden away from public view, thereby countering anti-gay sentiment and refusing to actively closet someone in the media — or are you in fact perpetuating anti-gayness by turning someone's sexuality into a salacious scoop?
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The fact that Sivan is now a burgeoning pop star himself — in music videos with Ariana Grande, opening for Taylor Swift, who sashayed down the runway with him in one of her concerts — is a sign of a slowly changing industry and the shifting role of gay men's queerness in the factory of (often) conventional desire that structures mainstream pop.
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What makes the manner in which Lil Nas X decided to come out so interesting is that he was able to control his own narrative without going into hiding and leaving his words up for interpretation, like his industry peer Frank Ocean, or by making conspicuously carnal and sometimes contradictory statements about queerness, in the vein of someone like Tyler, the Creator.
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"I think the evidence is pretty clear that Vince McMahon and the WWE treated queerness as a device for generating heel heat and had zero interest in channeling gender-fluidity into a positive "face" trait," said Josh Howard, sports historian, wrestling fan, and co-author of A Secret Fascination, a study of gender non-conformity and masculinity in pro wrestling.
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Monáe makes it a point to use the word "pink" to describe more things than pussy ("like the tongue that goes down... like the folds of your brain... like the holes of your heart")—and then immediately turns around to remind us that she's still (and perhaps always) singing about her queerness, love, and yes, pussy ("pink is my favorite part").
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Drag is, first and foremost, an art form, and monetizing art is never easy, and talking about it can be considered taboo—art and capitalism don't necessarily mesh, nor does queerness with capitalism, but for queer art forms, like drag, the price of performing can be high, with audiences expecting a free show, which, of course, is not sustainable in any way.
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" The tweets received a lot of love and support from other bi women who find that their queerness is invalidated when they're in relationships with men; she also received some criticism from lesbians, who tweeted responses like, "if a bi woman and a bi man are walking down the street holding hands you think they'll get decked by a mind reading homophobe?
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"It's not something that until very recently been acknowledged or talked about," said Camille Barton, an artist and drug policy reform advocate from the U.K. Despite this checkered history, queerness and psychedelics have often gone hand-in-hand: from San Francisco's gender-blending, acid-fuelled theatre troupe the Cockettes, to the Radical Faeries spiritual movement, which began among gay men in the 1970s.
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Parshikov included works such as "White Male Art" (2016) by Alexander Obrazumov, raising the issue of queerness in the white-male-dominated art of the 20th century, or Antonina Baever's "Transatlancyxa" (2016), a neon sign with a play on the word "trans-Atlantic" and the slang for "fag" in Russian; the piece connected the current fluctuation of migration and national borders with the nature of queer commentary.
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And my mother would still tell me, after this, that she wanted her son back, that I needed to return to God and maleness alike, that I was not her daughter despite such situational slip-ups, that I was setting myself up for a life of misery because, to her, queerness was the same as incomprehensibility, as failure, as stepping on a burning star with arms outstretched.
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Brokeback Mountain, in 2005, was perhaps the first film to go from festival circuit darling — nabbing top prize at Venice Film Festival — to cultural blockbuster and Oscar winner by framing queerness within a tragic love story between two straight-passing men: the now-famous couple of rodeo cowboy Jack Twist (played by Jake Gyllenhaal) and ranch hand Ennis Del Mar (played by Heath Ledger).
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It's not because I'm not proud of being bisexual, and it's not because I don't believe in the importance of a strong, united, and vocal LGBTQ community, especially in the wake of the horror that befell the victims of last month's Pulse nightclub shooting, an unspeakable act perpetrated by a man who, for all intents and purposes, was too ashamed to embrace his own queerness.
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