queerize
verbEtymology From queer + -ize.
1
To make queer (homosexual, transgender, etc.); to queer.
- ... seems to have combined (and queerized) a dozen Harlequin novels.1998, Raymond Murray, Images in the Dark, page 491:
- The decriminalization of homosexuality which gradually took place in Australia from the 1970s onwards helped queerize the 1990s.2002, David Coad, Gender Trouble Down Under: Australian Masculinities, page 124:
2 more examples
- […] to queerize spaces, disciplines, heterocentrist structures of power and knowledge while still recalling the politico-sexual basis of the term.2009, Darren Waldron, Queering Contemporary French Popular Cinema, page 29:
- As he perhaps justly ridicules Soviet “vulgar sociologizing” approaches to Gogol, Karlinsky's own approach may thus better be labeled as vulgar queerizing.2011, Alexei Lalo, Libertinage in Russian Culture and Literature, page 67: