re-queer

Verb

re-queer (third-person singular simple present re-queers, present participle re-queering, simple past and past participle re-queered)

1. To restore queerness that has previously been hidden or rejected.
   • A landmark in the inclusion of overt LGBTQ material in musical film was 1972's Cabaret, in which Bob Fosse and screenwriter Jay Presson Allen reinserted the bisexuality of Christopher Isherwood’s hero into the film (the original Broadway musical had thoroughly heterosexualized him, though recent...2009, John C. Hawley, editor, LGBTQ America Today: An Encyclopedia, page 780
   • The author's second aspiration is to utilize the writings of Fanon in order to contribute to a growing body of literature referred to as "a renewed queer studies," to the "queers of color" activism in Toronto, and also to re-queer queer space and other spaces by interrogating the ways in which...2010, George J. Sefa Dei, “Rereading Fanon for His Pedagogy and Implications for Schooling and Education”, in George J. Sera Dei, Marlon Simmoms, editors, Fanon & Education: Thinking Through...

   Antonyms:

   dequeer