Tekstą parengė Julija Baublinskaitė
Queer theory has expanded since the 1980s, when the term was coined, to include not only social and cultural, but also existentialist questions, such as the passage of time. The idea of “queer time”, i.e., that being LGBTQ+ warps one’s experience of aging, is not new – a literal expression of it can be seen in works of fiction like Wilde’s “The Picture of Dorian Gray” or Woolf’s “Orlando”. Though queerness is not the secret to immortality, non-heterosexual and especially non-cisgender people can experience feelings of non-linearity and asynchrony when their lives do not align with the heteronormative standard of aging.