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How to use queerness in a sentence

14 example sentences · noun

Queerness means the quality of being queer or odd. Example: “My queerness and my addiction to alcohol flourished in a tiny bar tucked in San Francisco’s Castro district.”

Examples of queerness by meaning

nounThe quality of being queer, in the sense of not conforming to sexual or gender norms.

  • My queerness and my addiction to alcohol flourished in a tiny bar tucked in San Francisco’s Castro district.2023 June 26, Billy Lezra, “Opinion: Going sober taught me something about Pride”, in CNN

More sentences with queerness

  • Looking raises these questions and explores the tensions between queerness and assimilation.2019, Ava Laure Parsemain, The Pedagogy of Queer TV, page 171. From the entry gaystream
  • Or, at the very least, demisexuality imposes more difficulty in describing my particular brand of queerness.2013, Adrienne Smith, “Cultural Fascination”, in Elesia Askenazy, Melanie Yergeau, editors, Relationships & Sexuality, page 96. From the entry demisexuality
  • You cannot blame their gayness, their queerness, their homosexuality on sudden wealth.1940 January-June, Allen Bernstein, Millions of Queers (Our Homo America), [Unpublished MS of the United States National Library of…. From the entry gayness
  • In the same ways queerness and Appalachianness cannot be separated for some, Blackness and queer Appalachianness cannot be separated for others.2022 April 25, Jacqueline Rhodes, Jonathan Alexander, The Routledge Handbook of Queer Rhetoric, Routledge, →ISBN. From the entry Appalachianness
  • Most of my friends know about my queerness, both being bi and being aspec, and also that I'm non-binary.2020, K. B. Rainwater, quoted in "Have You Come Out To Your Friends About Your Orientations? Explain.", AVENues Newsletter, Spring 2020…. From the entry aspec
  • They can explore female queerness by reblogging posts about ‘Paily’.2015, Alexandra Louise Elizabeth Simpson, "Shipping The Margin To The Centre: Excavating Tumblr; Filling In The Self", thesis submitted to…. From the entry Paily
  • Being gay for Brad, even a teensy bit, is at the very least being able to imagine the potential for queerness.2014, Christopher Schaberg, Robert Bennett, Deconstructing Brad Pitt, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN, page 211. From the entry gay
  • In Smallville’s teen fantasy, the themes of alienation and the search for identity easily transmute into homoromanticism and sympathetic queerness.2005, Louisa Ellen Stein, "'They Cavort, You Decide': Transgenericism, Queerness, and Fan Interpretation in Teen TV", Spectator, Volume…. From the entry homoromanticism
  • What they envisioned from the experiential and social modality of their transness, their queerness, their Blackness and Latinxness was a different kind of “government.”2020, Marquis Bey, Anarcho-Blackness: Notes Toward a Black Anarchism, AK Press, →ISBN. From the entry Latinxness
  • The pansexually perverse bisexuals who cruised everybody, eliminating only the illiterate, were probably the only people there who really "got" the queerness of our party.1999, Out, volume 7, number 9, page 46. From the entry pansexually
  • Eventually, the commodification is so far reaching that it is disconnected not just from QTPOC, and not just from queerness, but disconnected from any community meaning at all.2023, Abbie Levesque DeCamp, Queer Memes: Forms and Communities of Composition (PhD dissertation), Northeastern University, →ISBN, page 114. From the entry yassification
  • A bird in the hand is indeed of particular value in comparison to double the amount of bush-dwelling flying vertebrates, and folk are most certainly unchallenged in their queerness.1996 February, “Good old ‘The Internet’, it’s certainly the best”, in Amiga Action, number 79, IDG Media, page 36. From the entry tremendosity
  • Additionally — quite unusual among the post-encephalitic patients I have seen — Mr G. showed bilateral signs of upper motorneurone deficit and a mild mental dullness besides his 'queerness.'1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings. From the entry motorneurone

Meaning of queerness

  1. noun The quality of being queer or odd.
  2. noun Something queer; an oddity.
  3. noun Homosexuality.

Full definition of queerness

Questions about queerness in a sentence

How do you use queerness in a sentence?
Queerness is used as a noun. For example: “My queerness and my addiction to alcohol flourished in a tiny bar tucked in San Francisco’s Castro district.”
What is a short sentence with queerness?
“They can explore female queerness by reblogging posts about ‘Paily’.”
What does queerness mean?
Queerness means the quality of being queer or odd.

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