Community Quote by Olly Alexander

“That's one of the things that "queer" can refer to: the open mesh of possibilities, gaps, overlaps, dissonances and resonances, lapses and excesses of…

— Eve Sedgwick

When I was growing up, it was like, 'Gay means flamboyant, gay man' and lesbian means, 'Butch girl who looks masculine.' There was not…

— Chappell Roan

The term 'sexual orientation'...is basically a code word for homosexuality.

— Scott Lively

The word queer first started being used in the late 1980s by members of the community who wanted to reclaim something negative and turn…

— Olly Alexander

It's unfortunate we live in a society where "gay" is an insult. To some of these boys, who are from really red states and…

— David Farrier

Sometimes there's kind of an "ick" factor around talking about anything about gay sexuality, for certain readers.

— Kirby Dick

“That's one of the things that "queer" can refer to: the open mesh of possibilities, gaps, overlaps, dissonances and resonances, lapses and excesses of…

— Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

In my dictionary, and everyone's dictionary in the 1970s, the word 'queer' did mean strange and unusual. There was no slur to it.

— Joe Wurzelbacher

Beware of men who use words that relate pejoratively to females when describing the 'other side.

— Jane Fonda

That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.

— Stephen Fry

We have to look at queerness as a means towards challenging normativity.

— Patrisse Cullors

It's interesting that gay men and young women have been the twin engines of the Bettie [Page] cult.

— Mary Harron