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Kristen Barber
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BIOGRAPHY

Assistant Professor, Sociology, Southern Illinois University. Her contributions to SAGE Publications's Encyclopedia of Gender and Society (2008) formed the basis of her contributions to Britannica.

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Participants at the Gay Fest Parade in Bucharest hold large rainbow pride flags, with a crowd of people and city buildings in the background.
Queer, in sexual politics, description of sexuality that rejects normative definitions of appropriate feminine and masculine sexual behavior. More contemporary meanings of queer have been picked up and used by activists and academics to mark movements within sexual identity politics and theoretical…
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