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re-queering

re-queering is the present participle and gerund of re-queer.

Meaning of 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
    Antonyms:
    dequeer

Questions about re-queering

What is re-queering the present participle and gerund of?
Re-queering is the present participle and gerund of re-queer.

Words near re-queering in the dictionary

  1. re-purposed
  2. re-purposes
  3. re-purposing
  4. re-queer
  5. re-queered
  6. re-queering
  7. re-queers
  8. re-ran
  9. re-ratification
  10. re-ratifications
  11. re-ratified

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