heteroqueer

Adjective

heteroqueer (comparative more heteroqueer, superlative most heteroqueer)

1. Heterosexual and queer (e.g. due to transness).
   • 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...2011, Michael W., quoted in Genny Beemyn & Sue Rankin, The Lives of Transgender People, page 33
   • 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...2016, Simone Chess, Male-to-Female Crossdressing in Early Modern English Literature: Gender, Performance, and Queer Relations, page 114
2. Heterosexual and having an affinity with gay men and/or the gay community.
   • 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.2009, Nicole Hagan Wolensky Civettini, "Same-Sex Unions: Do Theories of Marriage Apply?", thesis submitted to The University of Iowa, page 18
   • 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).2018, Georges-Claude Guilbert, Gay Icons: The (Mostly) Female Entertainers Gay Men Love, page 116