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heteroqueerness

heteroqueerness noun: the state of being heteroqueer.

Noun

heteroqueerness (uncountable)

  1. The state of being heteroqueer.
    • Robert Heasley has begun to address the notion of heteroqueerness as it pertains specifically to the male subject. His paper focuses on a typology of men who perform queer masculinities and also identify as straight.2015, Jamie Lee Coull, "Faux Queens: an exploration of gender, sexuality and queerness in cisfemale drag queen performance", thesis submitted to Curtin University, page 45
    • On this occasion, I will bring to the fore one example related to the homo-trans*- revolution sequence, and its flipside in the concealment of “homonormativity”, and another that expresses the hetero-cis-repression series and occludes the potential of heteroqueerness.2017, Moira Pérez, "The Sex-Gender Revolution Series", Revista Estudos Feministas, Volume 25, Number 2, May-August 2017, page 437

Origin of heteroqueerness

From heteroqueer + -ness.

Questions about heteroqueerness

What does heteroqueerness mean?
Heteroqueerness means the state of being heteroqueer.
What part of speech is heteroqueerness?
Heteroqueerness is a noun.

Words near heteroqueerness in the dictionary

  1. heteropycnotics
  2. heteropygous
  3. heteropyknosis
  4. heteropyknotic
  5. heteroqueer
  6. heteroqueerness
  7. heteroquestionnaire
  8. heteroquestionnaires
  9. heteroradical
  10. heteroradicals
  11. heteroreceptor

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