de-queering

plural de-queerings · alternative dequeering

1. The act or process of hiding, diminishing, or rejecting queerness.

   In other words, the de-queering of Shakespeare suggests that a queer Shakespeare may be lurking uneasily beneath the surface.

   2001, Maria F. Magro, Mark Douglas, “Reflections on Sex, Shakespeare and Nostalgia in Trevor Nunn's Twelfth Night”, in Deborah Cartmell, I. Q. Hunter, Imelda Whelehan, editors, Retrovision: Reinventing the Past in Film and Fiction, page 43

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   Finally, Auerbach's attention to the transformation of vampire narratives into more conventionally heterosexual stories, a "de-queering" of sorts, is reminiscent of what I shall call re-queerings that take place in BtVS.

   2011, David Nel, “"Does the Phrase 'Vampire Slayer' Mean Anything to You?": The Discursive Construction of the Just Woman Warrior Trope in Joss Whedon's Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV Series”, in Jes Battis, editor, Supernatural Youth: The Rise of the Teen Hero in Literature and Popular Culture, page 71

   As Sophie Lewis describes in her article "Can the Sireniform Speak?," the de-queering and de-sexualizing of octopus villain Ursula in The Little Mermaid (2023) takes away what pleasures and queer imaginations were present in the original, while the girlbossification of Ariel and the post-racial casting only deepens the colonial clash-of-cultures fantasy at the heart of the mermaid tale.

   2026, Vicky Osterweil, The Extended Universe: How Disney Killed the Movies and Took Over the World, unnumbered page

alternative dequeering

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of de-queer