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    What Do You Love About Being Queer?

    It started with one simple question that gave rise to a tumblr, a film, and now a book.

    Sarah Karlan
    by Sarah Karlan

    BuzzFeed News Reporter

    Meet Vivek Shraya:

    Alejandro Santiago / Via vivekshraya.com

    Vivek Shraya is a talented Toronto-based musician, writer and filmmaker. Her collection of published short stories and other projects explores gender politics, queer theory, and religion.

    She had one question: What do you love about being queer?

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    She filmed responses in her own living room to make the documentary:

    whatiloveaboutbeingqueer.tumblr.com

    The responses were compiled on her tumblr, you can add your own as well.

    whatiloveaboutbeingqueer.tumblr.com
    whatiloveaboutbeingqueer.tumblr.com
    whatiloveaboutbeingqueer.tumblr.com
    whatiloveaboutbeingqueer.tumblr.com
    whatiloveaboutbeingqueer.tumblr.com
    whatiloveaboutbeingqueer.tumblr.com

    And now the project has become a book:

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    Featuring essays by Farzana Doctor (Six Metres Of Pavement), Elisha Lim (100 Butches), and George Brown College professors Kathryn Payne & Marilyn McLean.