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Meaning of queerize | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B2

Definitions

To make queer (homosexual, transgender, etc.); to queer.

transitive

Examples

“... seems to have combined (and queerized) a dozen Harlequin novels.”
“The decriminalization of homosexuality which gradually took place in Australia from the 1970s onwards helped queerize the 1990s.”
“[…] to queerize spaces, disciplines, heterocentrist structures of power and knowledge while still recalling the politico-sexual basis of the term.”
“As he perhaps justly ridicules Soviet “vulgar sociologizing” approaches to Gogol, Karlinsky's own approach may thus better be labeled as vulgar queerizing.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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