queerize

English

Etymology

queer +‎ -ize

Verb

queerize (third-person singular simple present queerizes, present participle queerizing, simple past and past participle queerized)

1. (transitive) To make queer (homosexual, transgender, etc.); to queer.
   • 1998, Raymond Murray, Images in the Dark, page 491:

     ... seems to have combined (and queerized) a dozen Harlequin novels.

   • 2002, David Coad, Gender Trouble Down Under: Australian Masculinities, page 124:

     The decriminalization of homosexuality which gradually took place in Australia from the 1970s onwards helped queerize the 1990s.

   • 2009, Darren Waldron, Queering Contemporary French Popular Cinema, page 29:

     […] to queerize spaces, disciplines, heterocentrist structures of power and knowledge while still recalling the politico-sexual basis of the term.

   • 2011, Alexei Lalo, Libertinage in Russian Culture and Literature, page 67:

     As he perhaps justly ridicules Soviet “vulgar sociologizing” approaches to Gogol, Karlinsky's own approach may thus better be labeled as vulgar queerizing.