<p>Accidentality describes the condition of not being at home in one’s own sense-making framework. A “sense-making framework” refers to how we psychologically understand our reality, emotions, and beliefs based on the social structures through which we live. So far, no one has applied accidentality to sexuality. I argue queer people also experience accidentality. Most philosophers discussing accidentality argue that accidentality is a sort of epistemic privilege. I argue while accidentality may be an epistemic privilege, it also often stems from epistemic injustice, specifically hermeneutical injustice: injustice caused when people cannot understand their life experiences due to a lack of interpretive resources to understand those experiences. This is because to endure hermeneutical injustice is to endure a position within your social world where you are deprived of the interpretive resources required to understand your experiences, and this can cause the phenomenological experience of accidentality, which is the conscious experiencing of a social world that deprives you of the interpretive resources required to understand your experiences at a pervasive and global scale, a condition of being untethered from one’s available meaning-making structures in their social world. I argue one second-order epistemic harm from this injustice is the specific patterns of psychological reasoning accidentality creates that compounds to foster extreme melancholy. We have empirical evidence supporting this. Lastly, we can help queer people overcome this melancholy through pragmatic solutions to accidentality, such as ensuring the survival and well-being of queer communities which provide an alternative and compatible sense-making framework. We can achieve this by destigmatizing being queer, combating discrimination within queer communities, and ensuring access to mental health services.</p>