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A world that saw my queerness not as a dealbreaker, but as a superpower.
Source: https://time.com/6285934/pulse-nightclub-shooting-florida-lgbtq-essay/
Both digital spaces like Lex and physical spaces opened by these collectives are offering tangible, positive tastes of what the full spectrum of queerness looks like when properly celebrated.
Source: https://nyunews.com/under-the-arch/2023/02/26/spaces-for-queer-women-are-in-need-of-a-resuscitation/
But this is 2023, and queer culture is all over movies, television, streaming, etc. My good friend and fellow film-reviewing colleague Jason Shawhan recently wrote an essay breaking down the queerness that’s been infiltrating the multiplexes these days.
However, as normalized and “assimilated” as the couple seems to be, David and Mark never lose their queerness.
I have no issue with affirming queerness.
In the social conversation about queerness, sexuality and identity are often interconnected, but that can have a constraining effect, says Packer.
Source: https://houstonianonline.com/the-ultra-conservative-believer-also-has-a-right-to-exist/
It touches on some of those things, yes, but so much more – sex, mental health, queerness, divorce.
One of his stand-out memories of Wellington is the first Cuba Dupa he attended, “the creativity, the family vibes, the dancing, the queerness of it all – I was inspired by it!”
Penned by the openly bisexual Tom Robinson, "Glad to Be Gay" celebrated queerness while condemning the violence that many members of the community faced in the late '70s.
Purity culture seeks to demonize anything from queerness to kinks in order to maintain the illusion of a single, “normal” way in which “normal” people have sex.
They are normal, which means, variously, that they are not queer; that queerness is normal; and perhaps that normal is queer.
This makes me wonder: If queerness was this seemingly тАЬnaturalтАЭ to my culture, why were the protagonists in romantic Bollywood movies never of the same sex?
Though queer art is limited, an in The Guardian discusses how queer art, particularly in video games and media, offers an opportunity for players to not only explore their queerness, but to find and contribute to meaningful communities.
We don’t see a lot of queer representation, although there really is nothing inherently wrong with queerness that makes it inappropriate for people that are in grade school.
While the Hays Code made queerbaiting more prominent throughout classic cinema by virtue of making queer conduct completely taboo, Feig flips the script, treating Emily's queerness as canonical and queer behavior as sacrosanct.
Source: https://www.slashfilm.com/1203666/the-daily-stream-a-simple-favor-is-a-complicated-decadent-mystery/
While the traumas that accompany queerness range from constant victimization to harassment to rejection, there is something purely evil that comes with internalized homophobia.