Meaning of heteroqueer | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Heterosexual and queer (e.g. due to transness).
2. Heterosexual and having an affinity with gay men and/or the gay community.

Examples

“I lived openly as a dyke for more than 20 years and no number of shots [of testosterone] ... will ever change my history. Nor do I have any interest in that happening....I've been without my lesbian ID card for several years now, but I can't really call myself straight either. I really have no concept of "straight" as a life experience ... so "heteroqueer" seems to fit best, or "I'm a guy who likes girls who like 'special' guys."”

“In Day's more lighthearted take on Sidney's story in Isle of the Gulls, Pyrocles's friend Demetrius (Musidorus in the Arcadia) comments on the unlikelihood of this erotic heteroqueer triangle: “That the duke should doate upon thee for a woman, makes for our purpose, but that the dutches should be enamord on thee for a man, is preposteroous."”

“Deaf Chicano heteroqueer trans man Drago Renteria is an activist and writer who founded the National Deaf Queer Resource Center, an online information and resource website that has existed since 1995 and is run by volunteers.”

“See Mock (2003) and Zita (1992) for interesting pieces on male lesbians and heteroqueer ladies – individuals who are attracted to members of the opposite sex, but feel as though they “should” be members of the opposite sex with same-sex sexual desires.”

“Roberta Mock presents Midler as a camp heteroqueer lady and reminds us of the fact that Michael Bronski described Midler as a “female female impersonator” (Bronski 1984: 107).”

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