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Queer China (志同志)
Queer China, 'Comrade' China (誌同志, Zhi tongzhi) is a 2008 documentary by Cui Zi'en interviewing over 30 Chinese LGBT community figures about homosexuality's decriminalization, depathologization, and queer movement history; it won the 2009 Torino GLBT audience award.
Queer Duck
Queer Duck is a Mike Reiss-created Flash-animated adult web series about a gay duck nurse, debuting on Icebox.com in 2000, airing on Showtime and BBC Choice, and expanded into Queer Duck: The Movie (2006).
Queer Eye (2003 TV series)
Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, also shortened to Queer Eye, is the 2003-2007 Bravo makeover reality series created by David Collins and Scout Productions, whose Fab Five of five gay experts made over straight men and won the 2004 Emmy for Outstanding Reality Program.
Queer Eye (2018 TV series)
Queer Eye (2018) is a Netflix reality makeover series rebooting Bravo's Queer Eye for the Straight Guy; the Fab Five (Porowski, Berk/Brent, Brown, Van Ness, France) ran ten seasons, 2018 to 2026, ending in Washington D.C.
Queer for Fear: The History of Queer Horror
Queer for Fear: The History of Queer Horror is a 2022 four-part Shudder docuseries from Bryan Fuller and Steak House tracing LGBTQ+ history in horror, from Gothic writers to James Whale, werewolves, aliens, and dangerous women.
Queer heterosexuality
Queer heterosexuality (queer straight): a queer theory concept for heterosexual identities that subvert heteronormative norms of gender and monogamy, developed by Schlichter and Heasley, and contested for co-optation.
Queer literature
Queer literature is writing that represents sexual and gender identities and experiences outside heteronormative frameworks, together with a critical approach that reads any text through queer theory.
Queer Palm
Queer Palm: independent LGBTQIA+ film award at the Cannes Film Festival, founded 2010 by Franck Finance-Madureira; first won by Gregg Araki's Kaboom. Awards one feature and one short from all Cannes sections; 2026 winner Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma.
Queer theology
Queer theology applies queer theory's questioning of fixed sexual and gender identities to Christian doctrine, scripture, and church practice, emerging as a field by the late 1990s.
Queer theory
Queer theory: interdisciplinary framework treating sex, gender, sexuality, and identity as constructed and performative; coined by Teresa de Lauretis in 1990; founded on Butler's Gender Trouble and Sedgwick's Epistemology of the Closet; focuses on normativity, not identity categories.
Queerbaiting
Queerbaiting: a fan-coined pejorative for media producers hinting at or advertising queer content to attract LGBTQ audiences without delivering it. Known in Sinophone fandom as maifu; debated around authorial intent, celebrity personas, and Thai Y-series.
Queimada
Queimada (Burn!) is Gillo Pontecorvo's 1969 French-Italian political drama starring Marlon Brando as a British agent who instigates and later crushes a slave revolt on a fictional Caribbean sugar island, with Evaristo Márquez and music by Ennio Morricone.
Queiq
The Queiq (Quweiq) is a river rising in the hills of southern Turkey and flowing south through Aleppo, Syria, ending in the closed Matkh depression; it was Aleppo's main freshwater source until the 1950s.
Quek Leng Chan
Quek Leng Chan, also known as Guo Linggan (郭令灿), is a Malaysian banker who built Hong Leong Bank in Kuala Lumpur and co-founded Hong Leong Company (Malaysia) in 1963.
Quek Leng Chye
Quek Leng Chye, born 1944, is a Singapore property executive serving as managing director of Hong Leong Holdings, the property arm of the Hong Leong Group.
Quek Siu Rui
Quek Siu Rui is a Singaporean entrepreneur who co-founded the online marketplace Carousell in 2012 and has been its chief executive officer, leading it to a US$1.1 billion valuation.
Quelea
Quelea is a genus of three African weaver birds (Ploceidae) established by Reichenbach in 1850: red-billed, cardinal, and red-headed quelea. The red-billed quelea, about 12 cm and 15–26 g, is possibly the world's most abundant wild bird and a major cereal-crop pest, distinct from the plant genus Qualea.
Quelimane
Quelimane, capital of Zambezia Province, Mozambique; port city on the Rio dos Bons Sinais founded as a Portuguese ivory trading post in 1544; low-lying city of roughly 300,000 to 350,000 people with major flood exposure.
Quell Therapeutics
Quell Therapeutics is a London-based clinical-stage biotechnology company developing engineered T-regulatory (Treg) cell therapies, founded in 2019 as a University College London spin-out and backed by a $2 billion AstraZeneca deal.
Quellung reaction
The Quellung reaction, also called the Neufeld or capsular reaction test, is a microscopy method in which anticapsular serum makes a bacterial capsule appear swollen, used to type Streptococcus pneumoniae.
Quem Ama Cuida
Quem Ama Cuida is a Brazilian TV Globo nine o'clock telenovela by Walcyr Carrasco and Claudia Souto, premiering 18 May 2026, starring Letícia Colin, 211 chapters, a whodunit about caregiving and revenge.
Quench detection
Quench detection is the monitoring method that identifies the sudden loss of superconductivity in a superconducting magnet or cable, usually by measuring the resistive voltage that appears when part of the winding goes normal.
Quenched disorder
Quenched disorder is randomness in a physical system, such as random impurities or fields, that is frozen in place on observation time scales, contrasting with annealed disorder.
Quenching
Quenching, also called quench hardening, is the rapid cooling of a heated metal in water, oil, brine, or gas to lock in a hard microstructure such as martensite.
Quenching (fluorescence)
Quenching (fluorescence): deactivation of an excited fluorophore by a quencher, via dynamic (collisional, lifetime-shortening) or static (ground-state complex) mechanisms, quantified by the 1919 Stern–Volmer equation and used widely in fluorescent sensing.
Quenching of the axial-vector coupling
Quenching of the axial-vector coupling is the empirical reduction of the weak coupling gA below its free value 1.27 needed to reproduce Gamow-Teller beta-decay rates in nuclei.
Quendo
Quendo is a mancala-style sowing board game of the Lunda-Quioco children of Angola, cataloged as DLP.Games.252, with counters-determine-ownership and hole-capture rules; distinct from the surname Quendo and from Kalah-type mancala.
Quenelle (gesture)
Quenelle gesture: arm gesture created by French comedian Dieudonné M'bala M'bala in his 2005 show 1905; one arm pointed diagonally downward, other hand on shoulder. Widely read as an inverted Nazi salute, contested as anti-establishment; Anelka banned five matches and fined £80,000 in 2014.
Quenisset (Martian crater)
Quenisset is a 136.66-km IAU-named impact crater on Mars in the Ismenius Lacus quadrangle at 34.27°N, 40.67°E, approved 1973 for French astronomer Ferdinand Quénisset, with a HiRISE-imaged central peak.
Quenlin Blackwell
Quenlin Blackwell, also Quen Blackwell or @quenblackwell, is an American comedian, actress, model, and creator born 2001 in Dallas, Texas, known for Vine memes, the YouTube show Feeding Starving Celebrities, and a 2026 Nike partnership.