queer vs strange

queer

adj
  • Weird, odd, or different; whimsical. 

  • Pertaining to sexual or gender behaviour or identity which does not conform to conventional heterosexual or cisgender norms, assumptions etc. 

  • Non-heterosexual or Non-cisgender: homosexual, bisexual, asexual, transgender, etc. 

  • Homosexual. 

  • Drunk. 

noun
  • A person who is or appears homosexual, or who has homosexual qualities. 

  • A person of any non-heterosexual sexuality or sexual identity. 

  • A person of any genderqueer identity. 

adv
  • Queerly. 

verb
  • To reevaluate or reinterpret (a work) with an eye to sexual orientation and/or to gender, as by applying queer theory. 

  • To make a work more appealing or attractive to LGBT people, such as by not having strict genders for playable characters. 

strange

adj
  • Not normal; odd, unusual, surprising, out of the ordinary. 

  • Outside of one's current relationship; unfamiliar. 

  • Having the quantum mechanical property of strangeness. 

  • Not belonging to one. 

  • Unfamiliar, not yet part of one's experience. 

  • Of an attractor: having a fractal structure. 

noun
  • Sex outside of one's current relationship. 

How often have the words queer and strange occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )