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  • verb Present participle of queer.

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Examples

  • Author Ann Herendeen's self-described "queering" of Pride/Prejudice doesn't stink because it's got heaps of explicit gay and straight sex.

    Not-So-Plain Jane 2010

  • He's right in terms of black homophobia having its roots in the homophobia of the dominant society, just as Horace Griffin traces it back to the "queering" (as I imagine Dyson might put it) of black sexuality going all the way back to slavery and the inculcation of black slaves into a conservative, biblically literalistic Christianity during a sexually repressed Victorian era.

    Terrance Heath: Are Blacks More Homophobic? 2008

  • (While racism is abhorrent, aren't there any other actions that should be widely condemned, like looting the economy, "queering" youth?)

    Thoughts Of A Conservative Christian 2010

  • (While racism is abhorrent, aren't there any other actions that should be widely condemned, like looting the economy, "queering" youth?)

    Thoughts Of A Conservative Christian budsimmons 2010

  • Thinking today about the "queering" of our family made me think about how people sometimes say of a gay couple, "Wait, so who's the husband and who's the wife?"

    this woman's work 2009

  • He's right in terms of black homophobia having its roots in the homophobia of the dominant society, just as Horace Griffin traces it back to the "queering" (as I imagine Dyson might put it) of black sexuality going all the way back to slavery and the inculcation of black slaves into a conservative, biblically literalistic Christianity during a sexually repressed Victorian era.

    The Bilerico Project 2008

  • Something we see little of in pop culture, but that certainly fits with the "queering" nature of transformative technologies and the sexy transgressiveness of the cyborg.

    Ethical Technology 2008

  • "queering" a bill, for this is one thing that one traveling man will never deliberately do to another.

    Tales of the Road

  • "queering" our life game by our vicious, tearing-down thoughts and unfortunate moods.

    Pushing to the Front Orison Swett Marden 1887

  • Then she tore herself away to arm's length, passionate, queering, and stood gazing at

    CHAPTER XVII 2010

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