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- verb Present participle of
queer .
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Examples
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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
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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.
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(While racism is abhorrent, aren't there any other actions that should be widely condemned, like looting the economy, "queering" youth?)
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(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
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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
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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
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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
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"queering" a bill, for this is one thing that one traveling man will never deliberately do to another.
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"queering" our life game by our vicious, tearing-down thoughts and unfortunate moods.
Pushing to the Front Orison Swett Marden 1887
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Then she tore herself away to arm's length, passionate, queering, and stood gazing at
CHAPTER XVII 2010
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