Quotes of: Queer Keyword

There's nowt so queer as folk.

Traditional

When a man does a queer thing, or two queer things, there may be a meaning to it, but when everything he does is queer, then you begin to wonder

The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

All the world old is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer.

Robert Owen

And in most queer communities, regardless of one's sex or identity, people who are more masculine in gender expression are almost always viewed as more valid and attractive than their feminine counterparts.

Excluded: Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclusive

All the world is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer.

Robert Owen

If homosexuality is a disease, let's all call in queer to work: 'Hello. Can't work today. Still queer.

Life

You have some queer friends, Dorothy,' she said. The queerness doesn't matter, so long as they're friends,' was the answer

The Road to Oz

These names: gay, queer, homosexual are limiting. I would love to finish with them. We're going to have to decide which terms to use and where we use them. For me to use the word 'queer' is a liberation; it was a word that frightened me, but no longe...

Derek Jarman

All monsters are queers. Who is able to bring the dead back to life? God and the Devil. The Devil makes dead men into monsters: immortal, immoral—and queer.

The Show That Smells

Women are prevented by the threat and reality of male violence from entering public space on equal terms with male citizens.

Unpacking Queer Politics: A Lesbian Feminist Perspective

When I first started to write, I was aware of being queer, but I didn't write about it. Queer poems would probably not have been accepted by the editors I sent them to.

Thom Gunn

Of course it is very limiting to be labeled a lesbian or queer writer. We live in a homophobic culture, and even people who aren't hateful per se assume they won't get anything from a queer book.

Michelle Tea

Just because I am queer doesn't mean I am queer for you

The Songs of The Gullible Wiseman: The Early Poems of Maddy Kobar, 2008-2013

Pornography as propaganda, according to feminist analysis, represents women as objects who love to be abused, and teaches men practices of degradation and abuse to carry out upon women.

Unpacking Queer Politics: A Lesbian Feminist Perspective

This condition in which women live is created out of, and defended by, a system of ideas represented by the world's religions, by psychoanalysis, by pornography, by sexology, by science and medicine and the social sciences.

Unpacking Queer Politics: A Lesbian Feminist Perspective

Working on the Obama campaign was a life-changer for me. I realized during that campaign that structure is the name of the game, and so, soon after the election, filmmaker Adam Baran and I started Queer/Art/Film, a monthly series at the IFC Film Cent...

Ira Sachs

Children are natural practitioners of the Queer and the Questing, for childhood is nothing but a quest through a queer country. Of course, they often have a good deal of trouble with the Quiet.

The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There

In my opinion any activity during which you can enjoy a beverage is not a sport. It is a party.

Alec Baldwin Doesn't Love Me & Other Trials from My Queer Life

Masculinity cannot exist without femininity. On its own, masculinity has no meaning, because it is but one half of a set of power relations. Masculinity pertains to male dominance as femininity pertains to female subordination.

Unpacking Queer Politics: A Lesbian Feminist Perspective

Laugh and cry and tell stories. Sad stories about bodies stolen, bodies no longer here. Enraging stories about the false images, devastating lies, untold violence. Bold, brash stories about reclaiming our bodies and changing the world.

Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation

I wish I hadn't cried so much!" said Alice, as she swam about, trying to find her way out. "I shall be punished for it now, I suppose, by being drowned in my own tears! That will be a queer thing, to be sure! However, everything is queer today.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass