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re-queer en · VERB

Etymology

From re- + queer.

Meanings

1. To restore queerness that has previously been hidden or rejected.
   • A landmark in the inclusion of overt LGBTQ material in musical film was 1972's Cabaret, in which Bob Fosse and screenwriter Jay Presson Allen reinserted the bisexuality of Christopher Isherwood’s hero into the film (the original Broadway musical had thoroughly heterosexualized him, though recent revivals have re-queered him to varying degrees). 2009, John C. Hawley, editor, LGBTQ America Today: An Encyclopedia, page 780:
   • In other words, I wish to re-queer the lives and experiences of lesbians in Singapore to tell the story of a different sort of non-Western queer, which speaks in a transformative way to existing conceptualisations of the asymmetric relations in the global gay domain. 2017, Shawna Tang, Postcolonial Lesbian Identities in Singapore: Re­thinking Global Sexualities, page 15:
   • The author's second aspiration is to utilize the writings of Fanon in order to contribute to a growing body of literature referred to as "a renewed queer studies," to the "queers of color" activism in Toronto, and also to re-queer queer space and other spaces by interrogating the ways in which queer or LGBT(Q) practices might be contingently engaged or complicit with normalized aestheticised codifications of whiteness, gender and sexuality on the body. 2010, George J. Sefa Dei, “Rereading Fanon for His Pedagogy and Implications for Schooling and Education”, in George J. Sera Dei, Marlon Simmoms, editors, Fanon & Education: Thinking Through Pedagogical Possibilities, page 24:

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Antonyms

dequeer