Michael WarnerThinkers

Queer is a straying from the normal (rather than simply opposed to heterosexual). It is being outside and resisting the established norms and normal behavior.

Queer is the experimental, linguistic, epistemological, representational, political adventures attaching to the very many of us who may at times be moved to describe ourselves as pushy femmes, radical faeries, fatasist, drags, clones, leatherfolk, ladies in tuxedos, feminist women or feminist men, masturbators, bulldaggers, divas, snap! Queens, butch bottoms, story tellers, transsexuals, aunties, wannabes, lesbian-identified men or lesbians who sleep with men, or . . . People able to relish, learn from,

Queer is the open mesh of possibilities, gaps, overlaps, dissonances and resonances, lapses and excesses of meaning when the constituent elements of anyone's gender, of anyone's sexuality aren't made (or can't be made) to signifying monolitically.