Abstract

The consideration of group-internal linguistic perspectives is an essential aspect of the Linguistics of Diversity and Inclusion. In the field of queer linguistics, this has so far mostly been done at the micro level, for example in the context of so-called small stories and other qualitative approaches, or smaller peer group corpora. Research on external perspectives is more common, e.g. on discourses in mainstream media or in political discussions about (a part of) the queer community. In German-speaking contexts, linguistic research on queer topics in general is still in its early stages, and corpus-based approaches to researching internal perspectives in particular are still rare. In our article, we present a new corpus resource that enables comprehensive corpusbased research on queer topics in German: the Queere Korpus (QK). The corpus is designed to comprise a balanced amount of various text types from three different German-speaking countries: Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. So far, it contains 55,916,108 tokens distributed across a total of 28 gay, lesbian, queer and non-binary/trans* sources. We included online magazines, websites and blogs, and (digitized) print magazines. In our paper, we describe the corpus compilation and structure in detail and outline possible research questions and goals, exemplified by an analysis of the corpus stratification regarding the topic “Ehe für Alle” (same-sex marriage). While the corpus is not yet publicly available, we provide an extensive dataset of frequency lists, co-occurrences and N-grams together with this article.