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

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The Book of Blood and Roses (The Callisto Chronicles)
How to Lose a Goblin in Ten Days
One Aladdin Two Lamps
Chosen Family
Sheer
To Ride a Rising Storm (Nampeshiweisit, #2)
Last First Kiss
Missing Sam
Playing for Keeps
You'll Never Forget Me
I Don't Wish You Well
Through Gates of Garnet and Gold (Wayward Children, #11)
Our Ex's Wedding
See You at the Summit
We Used to Live Here
Blue Sisters
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
The Three Lives of Cate Kay
Legends & Lattes (Legends & Lattes, #1)
Cleopatra and Frankenstein
The Emperor of Gladness
The Tainted Cup (Shadow of the Leviathan, #1)
Razorblade Tears
What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)
All the Way to the River
Brigands & Breadknives (Legends & Lattes, #2)
気になってる人が男じゃなかった VOL.1 [Ki ni Natteru Hito ga Otoko Janakatta, Vol. 1]
The Guncle (The Guncle, #1)
Simply More: A Book for Anyone Who Has Been Told They're Too Much
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Best M/M Romance Published in 2012
631 books — 1,428 voters
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Best Gay For You Romance
914 books — 1,969 voters

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M/M Books Written By Men
1,525 books — 1,046 voters
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LGBTQ for YA
1,242 books — 2,149 voters

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The Best Humorous Gay Romances
917 books — 1,682 voters

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Red, White & Royal Blue
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Heartstopper: Volume One (Heartstopper, #1)
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (Aristotle and Dante, #1)
This Is How You Lose the Time War
One Last Stop
Heartstopper: Volume Two (Heartstopper, #2)
The House in the Cerulean Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #1)
Heartstopper: Volume Three (Heartstopper, #3)
Giovanni’s Room
They Both Die at the End (They Both Die at the End, #1)
Heartstopper: Volume Four (Heartstopper, #4)
Cemetery Boys (Cemetery Boys, #1)
Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1)

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