queerize

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