de-queer en · VERB
Etymology
From de- + queer.
Meanings
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To hide, diminish, or reject queerness.
The queer movement is dequeered and presented as if it were entirely white, middle-class, and family-oriented.
2004, Marvin Mahan Ellison, Same-Sex Marriage?: A Christian Ethical Analysis, page 113:In edition after edition, the Kamasutra has been deliberately dequeered.
2007, James McConnachie, The Book of Love: In Search of the Kamasutra, page 209:Joan Acocella's polemic against this body of scholarship has had the effect of de-queering Cather for a general readership.
2007, Heather Love, Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History, page 74:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| de-queering | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| de-queered | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| de-queered | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| dequeer | alternative | lexicographic | |
| de-queers | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic |