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title: "5 Word Queer Quotes by 5 authors"
description: "Browse 5 Word Queer quotes by 5 authors. Discover the best Word Queer sayings and thoughts."
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> [These names: gay, queer, homosexual are limiting. I would love to finish with them. We're going to have to decide which terms…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-jarman/these-names-gay-queer-homosexual-are-limiting-i-would-love-to-finish/)

[Derek Jarman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/derek-jarman/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/758/derek-jarman-21896_decide_these-names-gay-queer-homosexual-are-lim_352555.png)

> [“nothing but that one sufficient little word queer; he's queer, says Stubb; he's queer—queer, queer; and keeps dinning it into Mr. Starbuck…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herman-melville/nothing-but-that-one-sufficient-little-word-queer-he-s-queer-says/)

[Herman Melville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herman-melville/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/508/herman-melville-162_homosexuality_nothing-but-that-one-sufficient-little-w_773616.jpg)

> [I embrace the word queer as all-encompassing and how inclusive it is.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amanda-bearse/i-embrace-the-word-queer-as-all-encompassing-and-how-inclusive-it-is/)

[Amanda Bearse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amanda-bearse/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9cf/amanda-bearse-23324_embrace_i-embrace-the-word-queer-as-all-encompas_1434204.png)

> [The word queer first started being used in the late 1980s by members of the community who wanted to reclaim something negative…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/olly-alexander/the-word-queer-first-started-being-used-in-the-late-1980s-by-members/)

[Olly Alexander](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/olly-alexander/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fd7/olly-alexander-5923_community_the-word-queer-first-started-being-used_3140560.jpg)

> [In my dictionary, and everyone's dictionary in the 1970s, the word 'queer' did mean strange and unusual. There was no slur to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-wurzelbacher/in-my-dictionary-and-everyone-s-dictionary-in-the-1970s-the-word/)

[Joe Wurzelbacher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joe-wurzelbacher/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5e8/joe-wurzelbacher-18299_dictionary_in-my-dictionary-and-everyone-s-dictiona_3217543.jpg)

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