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queerize en · VERB

Etymology

From queer + -ize.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To make queer (homosexual, transgender, etc.); to queer.
   • ... seems to have combined (and queerized) a dozen Harlequin novels. 1998, Raymond Murray, Images in the Dark, page 491:
   • The decriminalization of homosexuality which gradually took place in Australia from the 1970s onwards helped queerize the 1990s. 2002, David Coad, Gender Trouble Down Under: Australian Masculinities, page 124:
   • As he perhaps justly ridicules Soviet “vulgar sociologizing” approaches to Gogol, Karlinsky's own approach may thus better be labeled as vulgar queerizing. 2011, Alexei Lalo, Libertinage in Russian Culture and Literature, page 67:
   • […] to queerize spaces, disciplines, heterocentrist structures of power and knowledge while still recalling the politico-sexual basis of the term. 2009, Darren Waldron, Queering Contemporary French Popular Cinema, page 29:

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