re-queer
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.75 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To restore queerness that has previously been hidden or rejected.
Example Sentences
- "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 revivals have re-queered him to varying degrees)."
- "The author's second aspiration is to utilize the writings of Fanon in order to contribute to a growing body of literature referred to as "a renewed queer studies," to the "queers of color" activism in Toronto, and also to re-queer queer space and other spaces by interrogating the ways in which queer or LGBT(Q) practices might be contingently engaged or complicit with normalized aestheticised codifications of whiteness, gender and sexuality on the body."
- "In other words, I wish to re-queer the lives and experiences of lesbians in Singapore to tell the story of a different sort of non-Western queer, which speaks in a transformative way to existing conceptualisations of the asymmetric relations in the global gay domain."
Etymology
From re- + queer.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: re