What's the difference between homosexual and queer?

Homosexual


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Patients were chronically ill homosexual men with multiple systemic opportunistic infections.
  • (2) It is my desperate hope that we close out of town.” In the book, God publishes his own 'It Getteth Better' video and clarifies his original writings on homosexuality: I remember dictating these lines to Moses; and afterward looking up to find him staring at me in wide-eyed astonishment, and saying, "Thou do knowest that when the Israelites read this, they're going to lose their fucking shit, right?"
  • (3) The pattern of neuropsychological deficits across HIV-1 states was similar to those found in cohorts of homosexual men.
  • (4) Frederick Juuko, a Ugandan law professor and critic of foreign influence in Ugandan politics, agrees that homosexuality is a pawn for many in times of desperation, including government.
  • (5) A homosexual man developed staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome associated with a Staphylococcus aureus septicemia.
  • (6) Two homosexual men, 35 and 42 years old, had bilateral acute angle-closure glaucoma in association with the acquired immune deficiency syndrome.
  • (7) In conclusion it should be stated that there is some evidence for at least two defects of cellular immunity associated with AIDS and to some extent, with AIDS-endangered homosexuals suffering from lymphadenopathy: first the defect of PMNL to answer to concanavalin A with increased metabolic activity, and secondly the defect of PMNL to start phagocytosis induced by Zymosan with a subsequent release of oxygen radicals which are measurable as chemiluminescence.
  • (8) From 80 sexually active male homosexuals, 117 serum samples were obtained.
  • (9) It focuses on the major areas of concern: HIV prevalence among drug injectors; sexual risk behaviour; the potential for heterosexual transmission; condom use; sexual risk and women; pregnancy; male homosexual activity and drug use; the effect of drugs on sexual behaviour and prostitution.
  • (10) The cause of the abnormal T lymphocyte subsets reported in healthy homosexual men is not known.
  • (11) Work with heterosexual and homosexual men and women is cited.
  • (12) Three hundred and sixty-nine homosexually active men from different areas of England were each assessed twice at an an interval of 9 months in order to examine the extent to which a number of social-psychological factors predicted subsequent high risk sexual behaviour.
  • (13) Serological tests for hepatitis A (HA) and B (HB), syphilis and HIV were performed on blood samples from 3 groups of homosexual men: 220 and 124 asymptomatic men being investigated in 1978 and 1980 respectively and another 98 men suffering from HA during the winter 1979-80.
  • (14) These findings indicated the similarity in sexual development among the homosexuals and the heterosexuals of each sex but there was a certain difference in learning experience.
  • (15) No significant differences were found in the prevalence of homosexual contact among single, married and previously-married men, although the prevalence of homosexual contact was lower in married men.
  • (16) However, HIV-1 proviral DNA was not detected in 16 seronegative homosexuals, 20 seronegative polytransfused haemophiliacs and 20 seronegative thalassaemic children, 20 individuals with isolated and persistent anti-core antibodies and 74 seronegative blood donors.
  • (17) The patient belonged to the male homosexual risk group.
  • (18) In this paper, five proved and one presumed case of G. lamblia infection among homosexual men are reported.
  • (19) In September 2007, Iran's former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad famously denied homosexuals existed in the Islamic republic.
  • (20) These findings are different from those reported from a similar study of comparable groups of homosexual men and these results may be further evidence to support the belief that the behaviour of HIV infection differs between haemophiliacs and other risk groups.

Queer


Definition:

  • (a.) At variance with what is usual or normal; differing in some odd way from what is ordinary; odd; singular; strange; whimsical; as, a queer story or act.
  • (a.) Mysterious; suspicious; questionable; as, a queer transaction.
  • (n.) Counterfeit money.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A few people might have wasted time trying to define Conchita's identity or worrying if she is one of "us", but the majority saw her for what she is: an ambassador for diversity, and a beacon of light – no doubt – to our queer cousins on the continent.
  • (2) A radical reworking of Douglas Sirk with Julianne Moore's 1950s housewife married to repressed homosexual Dennis Quaid, the film earned Haynes an Oscar nomination and confirmed him as a major talent, and one who'd outgrown the role of poster boy for New Queer Cinema.
  • (3) The interview when William F Buckley called Vidal 'queer'.
  • (4) Too straight, white and corporate: why some queer people are skipping SF Pride Read more Both had lost partners: Povilat to liver disease, Persinger to a heart attack.
  • (5) "It represents senseless acts of violence against trans and queer bodies beyond the historical lens," says Cassils.
  • (6) Lee, a member of the LGBT advocacy group in Northern Ireland Queer Space, wanted a cake featuring Sesame Street puppets Bert and Ernie with the slogan: support gay marriage.
  • (7) It has served as a truly welcoming queer space for gay people, straight people, trans people and just about everyone else since it opened in 2009.
  • (8) Lee had been here before – on queer street against John Jackson and Matt Korobov, each time pulling out a spectacular winning burst for stunning victories.
  • (9) We can only assume the MPAA considers the lives of queer old people as a threat to young, impressionable minds.
  • (10) Even though I desperately wanted to go, and I’ve known I was queer since I was a child, I matriculated at a Christian college at my mother’s request.
  • (11) I shot a queer forestry camp recently and it was one of the best days of my life.” LGBT: San Francisco is published by Reel Art Press (£40).
  • (12) Woe to you who laugh now, for you shall mourn and weep.” It’s not a sentiment reflected in ACL press releases, less concerned with warning the rich than fighting the queers.
  • (13) François Bikoro, the editor of the popular (and populist) Cameroonian weekly L'Anecdote – which, like a number of publications across the continent, has published lists of people it accuses of being gay, accompanied by headlines like "The Queers Are Among Us" – reckons circulation has increased from 5,000 to "more than 20,000" since "we began dealing with homosexuality".
  • (14) Dramatists as successful as John Osborne and Simon Gray would regularly complain that you had to be queer if you wanted to get on in the English theatre.
  • (15) It harks back to a time before gay went mainstream, before Will and Grace, before Queer As Folk, before the age of gay romcoms like Adam and Steve.
  • (16) Fellow artist Callie L is working on an essay that views One Direction’s performance of Where Do Broken Hearts Go on The X Factor with Ronnie Wood through the queer theory of the late American LGBT activist Vito Russo.
  • (17) Later, they shoot a queer-basher, which provoked angry outcries at some gay festival screenings and loud cheers at others.
  • (18) Its first production was the multi-award-winning Queer as Folk, which Guardian critics named the 13th best drama series of all time.
  • (19) Pride really should be for queer folks,” said Amy Sueyoshi, a lifelong San Francisco resident, who identifies as genderqueer.
  • (20) Photograph: Paul Grace When it comes to spaces for queer girls, Pitch Slap!