There is an evidence that Mootoo's novel shares with the readers to invoke queer identities on the surface. However, Mootoo explores these queer identities in numerous ways. "Cereus Blooms at Night" allows us to see the unnatural and natural forces of queer identities that are present in the novel as something deeper in society. Tyler and Otoh have a shared queerness in terms of their sexualities and how they become an unnatural force in their society's. Tyler struggles to come to terms with his queer identity as something natural to him without feeling his sexuality is something unnatural to him and the world. Whereas, Otoh does not struggle to identify his queer identity as a transgender boy, but his society conceals his transition because
