Definition of "queerness" []

• The quality of being queer (noun)

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• "Among those who called for writers to address the issue, Alfred Kazin wrote: "I don't care for novelists who ignore what H.G. Wells himself called the 'queerness' that has come into contemporary life since the bomb.""
• "Trans*ism, like queerness, is also considered by transphobic/heterosexist society a disease and a stain upon humanity."
• "If this were about “Castro Books of Queerness”, to argue that this or that work wasn’t utilising queerness, or that it was somehow still a good book for various specific qualities (i.e. despite the queerness) would be to tacitly accept the principle that queerness is morally wrong."