"He was queer, but not more so than for the last few days. He kept going."
"God evidently means Chinamen to live," remarked the doctor sententiously.
"I remember a case—"
But Trask could wait no longer. "I must find Mrs. Trask."
not heterosexual (sometimes also: or not cisgender)edit
2019, Samantha Allen, Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States, Little, Brown (→ISBN):
We were both aware of the state's reputation. But inside Bloomington we felt about as welcome as one visibly queer cisgender woman and one early-in-transition transgender woman could feel. Rachael's Café was our hangout of choice.
2019, Morgan Lev Edward Holleb, The A-Z of Gender and Sexuality: From Ace to Ze, Jessica Kingsley Publishers (→ISBN):
page 140: It's allegedly for gay men, but it includes: bisexual and bicurious men, straight men, straight trans women, queer trans women, and non-binary people who are deemed “close enough” to being “men” or “trans women.” In other words, […]
page 243: […] Because sexuality is so intrinsically tied to gender, and trans people are seen as gay or queer even when they are straight, straight trans people are largely ...
2019, Quinlan Miller, Camp TV: Trans Gender Queer Sitcom History, Duke University Press (→ISBN)
[...] connection between a queer subset of transgender practice today and the comedy production of the TV industry in the 1950s and 1960s articulates the problems of recounting the history of sitcoms as if this history were straight (not queer).
1988, Autumn Courtney, speaking at the San Francisco Lesbian Gay Freedom Day Parade Celebration, quoted in 2011, Sally McConnell-Ginet, Gender, Sexuality, and Meaning: Linguistic Practice and Politics, page 241:
What kind of queer are you? QUEER—you know what it means—odd, unusual, not straight, gay. I am queer, not straight. And...I am odd. Odd in the fact that I have been an active open out-of-the-closet Bisexual in the lesbian and gay world for the last seven years.
2007, Helen Boyd, She's Not the Man I Married: My Life with a Transgender Husband, Seal Press (→ISBN), page 213:
Dan Savage agreed that straight people are trying a lot more sexual acts that were previously considered “queer sex,” but he quite seriously insisted that he makes a point to emphasize that what they're doing is straight, not queer, [...]
2009, Gerard Loughlin, Queer Theology: Rethinking the Western Body, John Wiley & Sons (→ISBN), page 10:
For God's being is indubitable but radically unknowable, and any theology that forgets this is undeniably straight, not queer.
2018, CN Lester, Trans Like Me: Conversations for All of Us, Seal Press (→ISBN):
In my own UK trans community the number of straight trans people I know is overwhelmed by the bi, queer, pansexual, omnisexual, lesbian, and gay trans people of all genders and descriptors.
2002, International Journal of Sexuality and Gender Studies:
This essay should also illustrate that further research needs to be done not only about the term's appropriateness for naming, but about queer / LGBT academic programs and queer / LGBT student services themselves . Further inquiry should ...
2007, Kee Hyun Ahn, Queer Constellations in Architecture:
In biological scale, [people who are] Queer (LGBT) [decline] to fit themselves into the dichotomy of gender identity. They transgress it, explore their setting, and construct their rights. However, out of body scale, they fit into exiting frame and structure. They only ...
2009, Lawrence Martin La Fountain-Stokes, Queer Ricans: Cultures and Sexualities in the Diaspora, U of Minnesota Press (→ISBN)
In fact, one of the motivating factors for this study is to bring together and highlight previous scholarly contributions on Puerto Rican queer/LGBT studies that have allowed me to carry out my work.
2010, Kathleen Odell Korgen, Jonathan M. White, Shelley K. White, Sociologists in Action: Sociology, Social Change, and Social Justice, SAGE Publications (→ISBN)
She points out that, “before the 1960s, people simply did not do research on or teach about issues related to women, Asian Americans, or queer/LGBT people. The emergence of these new disciplines has led to broad changes in American ...
2000, Tamsin Wilton, Sexualities in Health and Social Care: A Textbook:
They include bisexuals, transsexuals, transgender people, androgynous people and even queer heterosexuals (Smyth 1992; Seidman 1996; Califia 1997).
sexuality sense, in the phrase "queer for" (cf "gay for")edit
1997, Martin Duberman, City University of New York. Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, Queer Representations: Reading Lives, Reading Cultures (A Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies Book), NYU Press (→ISBN), page 30:
Woody Guthrie was queer for Tom Joad, and that changed not only the young Guthrie's life but through him a lot of other people's—but what one always reads and hears about instead are Guthrie's allegedly rampant heterosexuality and his […]
2014, Christopher Schaberg, Robert Bennett, Deconstructing Brad Pitt, Bloomsbury Publishing USA (→ISBN), page 211:
Being gay for Brad, even a teensy bit, is at the very least being able to imagine the potential for queerness. In a sense, like the recent popular and critical furor over men who are gay-for-pay, being gay for Brad is what Jeffrey Escoffier defines as "situational homosexuality," or other forms of man-on-man behavior […] In other words, rather than worry over whether or not men who are queer for Brad can easily be labeled as straight or gay, […]
2014, Tim Cahill, Buried Dreams: Inside the Mind of John Wayne Gacy, Open Road Media (→ISBN)
"[…] a hundred women a month.” The guy went to strip shows, for Chrissake. No way the colonel was queer for boys. John's friends gathered around him in his time of need; they believed him. He could see it in their eyes as he talked. And talked.
