heteroqueerness

Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word heteroqueerness. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word heteroqueerness, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say heteroqueerness in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word heteroqueerness you have here. The definition of the word heteroqueerness will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition ofheteroqueerness, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.

English

Etymology

From heteroqueer +‎ -ness.

Noun

heteroqueerness (uncountable)

  1. (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.