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===Queer heterosexuality=== {{main|Queer heterosexuality}} ''Queer'' is sometimes expanded to include any non-normative sexuality,<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.lexico.com/definition/queer |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200322182207/https://www.lexico.com/definition/queer |url-status=dead |archive-date=March 22, 2020 |title=queer |dictionary=[[Lexico]] UK English Dictionary |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]}}</ref> including (cisgender) "[[queer heterosexuality]]". This has been criticized by some LGBTQ people, who argue that ''queer'' can only be reclaimed by those it has been used to oppress: "A straight person identifying as queer can feel like choosing to [[cultural appropriation|appropriate]] the good bits, the cultural and political cachet, the clothes and the sound of gay culture, without ... the internalized homophobia of lived gay experience."<ref name=appropriation>{{cite news |last=Mortimer |first=Dora |date=9 Feb 2016 |title=Can Straight People Be Queer? - An increasing number of young celebrities are labeling themselves 'queer.' But what does this mean for the queer community? |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/can-straight-people-be-queer-435/ |website=[[Vice Media]] |access-date=2018-12-12 |archive-date=2018-12-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181215224855/https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/avy9vz/can-straight-people-be-queer-435 |url-status=live }}</ref> Many queer people believe that "you don't have to identify as queer if you're on the LGBTQIA+ spectrum, but you do have to be on the LGBTQIA+ spectrum to identify as queer."<ref name=":0" />
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