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(transitive) To make queer (homosexual, transgender, etc.); to queer..
... seems to have combined (and queerized) a dozen Harlequin novels.
The decriminalization of homosexuality which gradually took place in Australia from the 1970s onwards helped queerize the 1990s.
[…] to queerize spaces, disciplines, heterocentrist structures of power and knowledge while still recalling the politico-sexual basis of the term.
As he perhaps justly ridicules Soviet “vulgar sociologizing” approaches to Gogol, Karlinsky's own approach may thus better be labeled as vulgar queerizing.
Use queerize when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Queerize means (transitive) To make queer (homosexual, transgender, etc.); to queer..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
... seems to have combined (and queerized) a dozen Harlequin novels.
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