What Does Tilda Swinton Mean When She Says She's Queer? Vogue. In a new interview conducted by gay playwright Jeremy O. Harris for British Vogue, actress Tilda Swinton said she considers herself queer and always has. “I’m very clear that queer is actually, for me anyway, to do with sensibility.” she said in the interview. “I always felt I was queer — I was just looking for my queer circus, and I found it. And having found it, it’s my world. Now I have a family with Wes Anderson, I have a family with Bong Joon-ho, I have a family with Jim Jarmusch, I have a family with Luca Guada...