queerhood

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noun

The state or condition of being queer; queerness

Scrabble 22

Meanings

nounqueerhood (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe state or condition of being queer; queerness

    There is something truly dangerous in this global response to queerhood, something that should lead us towards a more global co-operation in our attempts to build a sexual politics and fight back against homophobia.

    2005, Krystyna Slany, Beata Kowalska, Marcin Śmietana, Homoseksualizm: perspektywa interdyscyplinarna - Page 130
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    It's not that I'm proud of how I found out or that I think that closeted dildoes alone are enough to indict him for closeted queerhood. There's more to it, and that can only be revealed in the telling of the whole story.

    1995, John Preston, Michael Lowenthal, Friends and lovers

    I stand naked inside an enormous shell, my long hair cascading modestly over my crack. Like I was saying, it seems to me that most folks must range somewhere between knee-jerk queerhood of Dell and the in-your-face hetero world of Zorn.

    2002, Lee Williams, Author of destiny: also known as the Ochoa case - Page 59

    There are also Polish branches of other international associations. But it is still, I am afraid, far from 'global queerhood'. What we have here is rather an attempt to adopt organizational forms that proved suitable elsewhere to Polish conditions.

    2013, Laszlo Kürti, Peter Skalnik, Postsocialist Europe: Anthropological Perspectives from Home

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