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re-queers

re-queers is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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-queers

What is re-queers the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Re-queers is the third-person singular simple present indicative of re-queer.

Words near re-queers in the dictionary

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

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