Example Sentences

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Straights and queers, in other words, never get a clear view of each other through a flat lens.

From Salon • Oct. 4, 2025

“Our age difference plays really well into it,” says Miller of their and Bandrowski’s ability to draw both Gen Z and millennial queers to their events.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 11, 2024

“To the queers, to the Latin, to the immigrants, this is for you,” said Lacorazza, a Colombian American filmmaker whose film is set in Las Cruces, New Mexico.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 26, 2024

They were lesbians, gays, queers, and gender-nonconforming people who had been the target of homophobic and transphobic speech and violence.

From Slate • Sep. 26, 2023

Or perhaps she does something that queers herself first thing.”

From Beatrice Leigh at College A Story for Girls by Schwartz, Julia Augusta