🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

comunidade queer

Pronunciation / Transliteration: komuˈnidɐdʒi kwiʁ

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Queer community/kwɪər kəˈmjuː.nə.ti/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #15400 frequency
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"A comunidade queer luta por direitos iguais e inclusão."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A diverse group of people whose sexual orientations or gender identities fall outside normative heterosexual and cisgender paradigms.

    "The local queer community organized a vibrant pride parade to celebrate diversity and unity."
  2. 2

    A supportive social network and cultural collective providing safe spaces, advocacy, and mutual aid for LGBTQ+ individuals.

    "Finding the queer community in the city provided him with the acceptance and support he desperately needed."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term combines 'queer', originating from 16th-century Scots meaning strange or eccentric, which underwent a 20th-century political reclamation by sexual and gender minorities, with 'community', derived from the Latin 'communitas' meaning fellowship or public spirit. Together, the phrase emerged in modern sociological and activist discourse during the late 20th century to describe a collective network of individuals with diverse non-cisheteronormative identities.

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