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If you are as curious as me, you have two options:

Google it

Keep reading this text :)

So, in the dictionary QUEER means weird; strange; odd; But that’s not the meaning I’m interested in now because it can also be an umbrella term for sexual and gender minorities who are not heterosexual or cisgender.
Gay is traditionally when someone is attracted to a person of the same sex — but that's not always the case. Homosexuality may mean that, but many people associate the word "gay" strictly with men, while the word "lesbian" is strictly used for women. As a whole(bisexual, pansexual, asexual, transgender) however, they all fit into the queerumbrella. You can imagine it as a community of terms inside a whole other term.

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CRIPTANDRO: A lésbica aprisionada nas páginas de uma revista masculina

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CRIPTANDRO: A lésbica aprisionada nas páginas de uma revista masculina

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I was supposed to chose an academic paper for my Padlet. Although I don’t have the intention to flash me around I picked my master’s dissertation abstract because it represents the begging and the first outcome of my interest in Queer Theory. In this study, I searched about a novel called “Eu sou uma lésbica” written by the Brazilian author Cassandra Rios and its publication issues.

ABSTRACT

This work aims to analyze the relationship between the homoerotic writing and the "negotiation with the reader" in Eu sou uma lésbica by the Brazilian writer Cassandra Rios (1932-2002). Even though the author had been known for her daring and her plots with homoerotic characters during the military dictatorship, it can be noticed some heteronormative marks and negative associations, such as pejorative names and even criminal involvements related to their characters. The sexual orientation of the lesbian characters is represented several times as an attraction for the men, the old male fetish, besides the pejorative names used to treat them and the insistence on the stereotypes of the lesbian as the masculinized woman. Since the novel was first published as a feuilleton in the men's magazine Status in 1980, this research aims to investigate if the heteronormative marks and the pejorative content used to make reference to the homoerotic characters were used by the lesbian authoress concerning the audience
Keywords: Brazilian literature, homoeroticism, Cassandra Rios, Semiotics.

Feel free to read the full dissertation if you want to :)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/136XQvL1iOVuKYg8uzYCXm248ssd7Wpnc/view?usp=drivesdk

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Queer Studies | Admissions

Like most of people I’ve never thought that it could be possible to study Queer Literature or if there have been such area. But, as you can see on this University of Oregon website, there are many universities developing their Queer Studies departments with many professors studying the topic in a lot of different approaches.

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Queer studies is a minor within the Department of Women's and Gender Studies. Undergraduate minor

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Unlike many people believe, Literature and Poetry are not somewhere everything is possible. We’ve always had Queer poetry like this poem by Frank Bidart  written in 1973. But it’s been always part of a minor poetry, nothing compared to E. E. Cummings or T. S. Elliot. However we’ve been coming out of this closet and there’s still many battles.

Queer

Frank Bidart, 1973

Lie to yourself about this and you will
forever lie about everything.

Everybody already knows everything

so you can
lie to them. That's what they want.

But lie to yourself, what you will

lose is yourself. Then you
turn into them.

                 *

For each gay kid whose adolescence

was America in the forties or fifties
the primary, the crucial

scenario

forever is coming out—
or not. Or not. Or not. Or not. Or not.

                 *

Involuted velleities of self-erasure.

                 *

Quickly after my parents
died, I came out. Foundational narrative

designed to confer existence.

If I had managed to come out to my
mother, she would have blamed not

me, but herself.

The door through which you were shoved out
into the light

was self-loathing and terror.

                 *

Thank you, terror!

You learned early that adults' genteel
fantasies about human life

were not, for you, life.  You think sex

is a knife
driven into you to teach you that.

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'It's great to be niche. It also sucks': inside the grind of queer publishing | Media | The Guardian

Although it’s interesting to research and publish about Queer topics, it may also be very tricky. In spite of many achievements due to the Queer resistance we’re still considered aberrations by conservative people and so as the subjects concerned to us, specially in academia and literature.

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'It's great to be niche. It also sucks': inside the grind of queer publishing

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For queer publishers, life can be tough: despite the corporate love of all things LGBTQ, there's no money in it

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It’s not usual to see Queer movies on the cinemas around or running for important prizes but we have some remarkable ones once in a while like “Milk”, “Brokeback Mountain” or “Blue is the warmest color” and “Tomboy” belongs to this category. If you want a great opportunity to put yourself in someone’s shoes, watch it and then check if you agree with this review!

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If you didn't know the title of the French movie "Tomboy," an intimately scaled film about a 10-year-old girl who wants to be a boy, or at least enjoy some boyish freedoms, you might not know the sex of the pretty child in the opener. And you might not think it mattered. The short hair gives nothing away and neither does the image of this sprite standing up in a car's open sunroof, face in the wind under the light-dappled trees. The driver - the father, you think - has one hand on the wheel and the other on the child, a nice image for a story about life's balancing acts.

But the title is inescapable: it greets you before you have even started watching the movie, more or less setting you on a narrative path. The title suggests that the child is a girl, one who dresses in plain shirts, shorts and sneakers without a touch of pink or a Hello Kitty backpack. Does that make her a tomboy? Does her haircut, the hint of a swagger, the curl of a lip or how we read these directorial choices? The movie tells us that this is a tomboy, and so we may see a tomboy (or a filmmaking idea). Early on, when she introduces herself as Mikael to a girl, Lisa (Jeanne Disson), you might wonder about the name - short for Mikaela? - if not much more about the exchange.

A shot of the child taking a bath confirms the obvious, though her mother summoning her to dinner and calling her Laure provides a tiny surprise: she lied. (It may also cross your mind that French filmmakers are more relaxed when it comes to child nudity than their American counterparts, though here the nudity isn't easygoing but didactic.) Laure, played by an appealing, unmannered newcomer, Zoé Heran, has just moved into a new apartment with her father, pregnant mother and younger sister. It's summer, the days are long and the quarter is swarming with potential playmates, innocents who - given Laure's fib and given, too, the gathering unease - your fear may transform into vicious proxies for an intolerant world, filling Laure's days (and this movie) with tears or worse.

If it takes longer for what seem like the inevitable sad, bad times to hit than they would in, say, a film that was workshopped at the Sundance Institute, it's because the writer and director Céline Sciamma is operating in a different tradition, that of the art cinema rather than Hollywood or Indiewood. To that end, the story drifts into focus, and the emphasis remains on the wheels in Laure's head, which turn loudly despite her relative silence. When Laure/Mikael watches boys play soccer, you might think you're looking at a lonely child. But when she joins a later game, whipping off her shirt like one of them, you know you're witnessing an identity in formation.

More specifically you're watching Ms. Sciamma explore the divide between sex and gender, and whether people are hard-wired or socially conditioned. With her very fine cinematographer, Crystel Fournier (who wrings beauty from a prosumer digital camera), Ms. Sciamma edges around her characters attractively, catching their glances, gestures, light and heavy words as if on the fly and then gently harnessing them to her low-key realism. As in her previous feature, " Water Lilies," about teenage girls discovering their sexual selves, Ms. Sciamma displays an obvious talent for working with young actors, who, by virtue of their age, bring a natural pathos to the screen. The story that emerges is programmatic and largely unsurprising, but these children give it messiness, joy and life.
TOMBOY Opens on Wednesday in Manhattan.
Written and directed by Céline Sciamma; director of photography, Crystel Fournier; edited by Julien Lacheray; production design by Thomas Grézaud; produced by Bénédicte Couvreur; released by Rocket Releasing. At the Film Forum, 209 West Houston Street, west of Avenue of the Americas, South Village. In French, with English subtitles. Running time: 1 hour 22 minutes. This film is not rated.

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If you didn't know the title of the French movie "Tomboy," an intimately scaled film about a 10-year-old girl who wants to be a boy, or at least enjoy some boyish freedoms, you might not know the sex of the pretty child in the opener. And you might not think it mattered.

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Very relevant topic... have you worked with this theme on your master research?