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English
Etymology
From hetero- + queer.
Adjective
heteroqueer (comparative more heteroqueer, superlative most heteroqueer)
- (LGBTQ) Heterosexual and queer (e.g. due to transness).
- 2011, Michael W., quoted in Genny Beemyn & Sue Rankin, The Lives of Transgender People, page 33:
- I lived openly as a dyke for more than 20 years and no number of shots ... will ever change my history. Nor do I have any interest in that happening....I've been without my lesbian ID card for several years now, but I can't really call myself straight either. I really have no concept of "straight" as a life experience ... so "heteroqueer" seems to fit best, or "I'm a guy who likes girls who like 'special' guys."
2016, Simone Chess, Male-to-Female Crossdressing in Early Modern English Literature: Gender, Performance, and Queer Relations, page 114:In Day's more lighthearted take on Sidney's story in Isle of the Gulls, Pyrocles's friend Demetrius (Musidorus in the Arcadia) comments on the unlikelihood of this erotic heteroqueer triangle: “That the duke should doate upon thee for a woman, makes for our purpose, but that the dutches should be enamord on thee for a man, is preposteroous."
2016, Genie Gertz, Patrick Boudreault, editors, The SAGE Deaf Studies Encyclopedia, page 318:Deaf Chicano heteroqueer trans man Drago Renteria is an activist and writer who founded the National Deaf Queer Resource Center, an online information and resource website that has existed since 1995 and is run by volunteers.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:heteroqueer.
- (of a woman) Heterosexual and having an affinity with gay men and/or the gay community.
2003 December, Roberta Mock, “Heteroqueer Ladies: Some Performative Transactions between Gay Men and Heterosexual Women”, in Feminist Review, volume 75, number 1:
- 2009, Nicole Hagan Wolensky Civettini, "Same-Sex Unions: Do Theories of Marriage Apply?", thesis submitted to The University of Iowa, page 18:
- See Mock (2003) and Zita (1992) for interesting pieces on male lesbians and heteroqueer ladies – individuals who are attracted to members of the opposite sex, but feel as though they “should” be members of the opposite sex with same-sex sexual desires.
2018, Georges-Claude Guilbert, Gay Icons: The (Mostly) Female Entertainers Gay Men Love, page 116:Roberta Mock presents Midler as a camp heteroqueer lady and reminds us of the fact that Michael Bronski described Midler as a “female female impersonator” (Bronski 1984: 107).