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Queer Theory 101: What Does “Queer” Actually Mean?

What does queer mean? One takeaway from a quick review of—mostly negative—responses to Matthew Vines’s recent post for The New York Times, “I’m Gay, Not Queer. It Matters,” is that people are very confused about what the term queer means.