Obvious and Queer

Obvious

Obvious adjective - Not subject to misinterpretation or more than one interpretation.

Queer is an antonym for obvious.

Nearby Words: obviously, obviousness

Queer

Queer adjective - Giving good reason for being doubted, questioned, or challenged.
Usage example: queer business practices that bear some looking into

Obvious is an antonym for queer.

Nearby Words: queered, queering

Both words in one sentence

  • Creator / RuPaul LGBT Fanbase: For obvious reasons, RuPaul is practically a deity in queer pop culture.
  • Film / Another Gay Movie Coming-Out Story: Mostly averted, and subverted when Nico's mom knows already and thinks it's obvious — showing up in the next scene covered in PFLAG badges, spoofing the mom from Queer as Folk.
  • Creator / Conrad Veidt Strasser isn't actually coded as gay—and in a movie with some blatant queer coding going on with the part of Captain Renault (who steals the entire movie and walks off with the hero in the end) it would've been pretty obvious if Strasser had been meant to be read as a Depraved Homosexual.
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