There are some easy, ready-to-hand, ways to “queer” the category of “family”: multi-generational households; reconstituted families (families brought together following parental separation and re-attachment); latch-key kids, living between “homes”; adult-only households; lone-parent households.

Query parameters – elements attached to the end of an URL to specify a particular query on the database. This allows us to perform logic with the information we get in response to the query. There are several different approaches to queries, from using query strings, to writing with a query language, or using a QBE like GraphQL or REST. Nyanzi also points to another matter of importance: the dominance of anglophone perspectives in perceiving queer lives in both activism and scholarship (Nyanzi Reference Nyanzi and Matabeni2014; see also Matebeni Reference Matebeni and Matebeni2014). In fact, she explicitly argues for a break with the anglophone acronym LGBT+. While this discourse is pervasive and while many, especially younger generations, find recognition in the idea that one's object of erotic desire defines what one ‘is’ (this does not apply to the ‘T’ – transgender), for many others – those who do not speak English or do not have access to the internet, for example – it has little or no resonance with their lives. Inspired by Nyanzi's call for ‘queering queer Africa’, we propose to reject queerness as an end goal tied to outcomes that are standardized. Rather than circumventing the question of identity, we wish to situate it within the history of unequal encounters in a globalizing world where certain groups find recognition in movements based on identity politics while others do not. Thus, we hope to recognize the affordances and opportunities in environments that are usually dismissed as homophobic or closeted (cf. Dankwa Reference Dankwa2021). In this way, we can pay attention to what Macharia calls the ‘circulating indifference of conceptual frames to Africa's lived experience’ ( Reference Macharia2016: 185) and definitively break away from hegemonic ways of understanding queer in identarian terms. Footnote 4 As Oudenhuijsen analyses in this issue, it is important not to take people's usage of terms such as ‘gay’, ‘lesbian’ or ‘queer’ as self-evident but to queery how they appropriate them. People's lives are contradictory and complex, and rather than seeing messiness as a hindrance, it can also be appreciated for its heuristic and exploratory breadth.

Onishenko, D., & Caragata, L. (2010). A theoretically critical gaze on the Canadian equal marriage debate: Breaking the binaries. Journal of Gay & Lesbian Social Service, 22(1–2), 91–111. There are different kinds of querying languages for various databases and functions, but the language most universally used is known as SQL. In turn, MySQL serves as the software that uses the SQL query language. Depending on the query language and its complexity, requested data can be displayed in simple rows and columns or as more sophisticated graphs. Other less frequently used languages include AQL, DMX, and Datalog. In addition to databases, search engines can also query and retrieve information. However, the term query in these two technologies differs.

Warner, M. (2000). The trouble with normal: Sexual politics and the ethics of queer life. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. A database query is a similar action that is most closely associated with some sort of CRUD (create, read, update, delete) function. A database query is a request to access data from a database to manipulate it or retrieve it. Sexuality- and gender-diverse youth experience disproportionate health and social adversity. Accurate early-life indicators are important for development of supportive approaches.Elizabeth, A. (2013). Challenging the binary: Sexual identity that is not duality. Journal of Bisexuality, 13(3), 329–337. Methods: A small-scale, qualitative study was designed, which included semi-structured interviews with pre-school teachers who educate four to six years old children in Greece. Five participants were interviewed, and the interviews were analysed with the use of thematic analysis. The questions asked in the interviews were oriented around the teachers’ reflections on the use of a mentioned book in their classrooms, upon possibilities or difficulties in relation to the use of this kind of literature and finally, their ideas about children, gender and sexuality. Belous, C. K., & Bauman, M. L. (2017). What’s in a name: Exploring pansexuality online. Journal of Bisexuality, 17(1), 58–72. Query containment – happens when one query is contained in another, if it is independent of the stored data values. Renninger, B. J. (2015). “Where I can be myself … where I can speak my mind”: Networked counterpublics in a polymedia environment. New Media & Society, 17(9), 1513–1529.