Queerness often stands in contrast to normative patterns coded by heterosexual society. Indeed, being queer entails an embrace of variations in human sexuality and gender expression that go beyond most traditional understandings. Likewise, art with a queer perspective can offer alternative visions that might differ from what its viewers are accustomed to. Through displacements of common expectation, revelations of unacknowledged fear, or celebrations of otherness, queer perspectives are insatiably open.