Queer

Queer is an umbrella term for sexual and gender minorities that are not heterosexual or cisgender. Originally meaning "strange" or "peculiar", queer came to be deployed pejoratively against those with same-sex desires or relationships in the late-19th century. Beginning in the late-1980s, queer scholars and activists began to reclaim the word to establish community and assert a politicized identity distinct from the gay political identity. Queer identitites may be adopted by those who reject traditional gender identities and seek a broader, less conformist, and deliberately ambiguous alternati ...more

The Island of Last Things
Lucky Day
Automatic Noodle
The Good Vampire's Guide to Blood and Boyfriends
The Build-a-Boyfriend Project
The Entanglement of Rival Wizards (Magic and Romance, #1)
Black Flame
Voidwalker (Beasts of the Void, #1)
Alchemy and a Cup of Tea (Tomes & Tea, #4)
The Seven Miracles of Beatrix Holland
Lessons in Magic and Disaster
This Vicious Hunger
The Sun and the Moon
Dogs
The Sunflower Boys
Atmosphere
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
Blue Sisters
We Used to Live Here
The Safekeep
The Three Lives of Cate Kay
The Emperor of Gladness
Cleopatra and Frankenstein
Legends & Lattes (Legends & Lattes, #1)
A Family Matter
Seduction Theory
Warrior Princess Assassin (Braided Fate, #1)
The Tainted Cup (Shadow of the Leviathan, #1)
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Razorblade Tears
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The Song of Achilles
Red, White & Royal Blue
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Heartstopper: Volume One (Heartstopper, #1)
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One Last Stop
This Is How You Lose the Time War
Heartstopper: Volume Two (Heartstopper, #2)
The House in the Cerulean Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #1)
Heartstopper: Volume Three (Heartstopper, #3)
They Both Die at the End (They Both Die at the End, #1)
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Heartstopper: Volume Four (Heartstopper, #4)
Cemetery Boys (Cemetery Boys, #1)
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