Queer Street

noun

1. a condition of financial instability or embarrassment:

   Such extravagance will surely put them in Queer Street.

queer street

noun

1. informal.
   sometimes capitals a difficult situation, such as debt or bankruptcy (in the phrase in queer street )

Word History and Origins

Origin of Queer Street¹

First recorded in 1830–40

Example Sentences

“He is one of the only openly queer street artists in Los Angeles that I’ve encountered and I think it’s really important for visibility that he’d be as ubiquitous as he is,” Dastin said.

From Los Angeles Times

“Many if not most of the L.G.B.T.Q. community know that queer street activism is as old and as predictable as the rainbow,” said Bob Witeck, a communications strategist and onetime congressional press secretary who works with the gay community and businesses like Marriott that market to it.

From New York Times

It was the moment, as Norman Mailer put it, that Ali was “dumped into 50,000 newspaper photographs … singing to the siren in the mistiest fogs of Queer Street.”

From The Guardian

“Captive Genders” includes essays on pre-“Gay Rights” movements in cities such as New York, Philadelphia, and San Francisco, where queer street youth organized to protect themselves against police harassment and understood that the state itself was the primary source of violence in their communities.

From The New Yorker

“Captive Genders” includes essays on pre-“Gay Rights” movements in cities such as New York, Philadelphia, and San Francisco, where queer street youth organized to protect themselves against police harassment and understood that the state itself was the primary source of violence in their communities.

From The New Yorker