The Queer Child, or Growing Sideways in the Twentieth CenturyChildren are thoroughly, shockingly queer, as Kathryn Bond Stockton explains in The Queer Child, where she examines childrens strangeness, even some childrens subliminal gayness, in the twentieth century. Estranging, broadening, darkening forms of children emerge as this book illuminates the child queered by innocence, the child queered by color, the child queered by Freud, the child queered by money, and the grown homosexual metaphorically seen as a