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English
Etymology
From heteroqueer + -ness.
Noun
heteroqueerness (uncountable)
- (LGBTQ) The state of being heteroqueer.
- 2015, Jamie Lee Coull, "Faux Queens: an exploration of gender, sexuality and queerness in cisfemale drag queen performance", thesis submitted to Curtin University, page 45:
- Robert Heasley has begun to address the notion of heteroqueerness as it pertains specifically to the male subject. His paper focuses on a typology of men who perform queer masculinities and also identify as straight.
- 2017, Moira Pérez, "The Sex-Gender Revolution Series", Revista Estudos Feministas, Volume 25, Number 2, May-August 2017, page 437:
- On this occasion, I will bring to the fore one example related to the homo-trans*- revolution sequence, and its flipside in the concealment of “homonormativity”, and another that expresses the hetero-cis-repression series and occludes the potential of heteroqueerness.
2018, Kate Fox, “How stand-ups construct and are constructed by the 'Northernness Effect'”, in Comedy Studies, volume 9, number 1, page 28:She [Roberta Mock] defines queer as the ‘politics of the liberation of desire’ (2003, 23) and I would contend that heterosexual women who actively express a lack of desire to reproduce performing heteroqueerness.