Queer studies
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Queer studies, sexual diversity studies, or LGBTQ studies are an interdisciplinary field in the study of topics relating to sexual orientation and gender identity usually focusing on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, gender dysphoric, asexual, aromantic, queer, questioning, and intersex people and cultures.
Originally centered on LGBT history and literary theory, the field has expanded to include the academic study of issues raised in archaeology, sociology, psychiatry, anthropology, the history of science, philosophy, psychology, sexology, political science, ethics, communication, and other fields through an examination of the identity, lives, history, and perception of being queer. It challenges concepts such as heteronormativity and gender binary.
Queer studies is not the same as queer theory, which is an analytical viewpoint within queer studies (centered on literary studies and philosophy) that challenges the existence of "socially constructed" categories of sexual identity. In the 21st Century, Queer Studies has evolved to focus on other intersectional categeories that transgress norms, questions forms of normalcy, and include differrent ways of being or seeing in the world.