cheering

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In the summer and fall of 2022, “Fire Island” and “Bros” made inroads as high-profile gay rom-coms, queering the familiar genre.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 1, 2022

“I’m basically queering the mass,” Tines writes, “in the broad sense of bending it to my own understanding.”

From Washington Post • Dec. 29, 2020

There is a lot of writing about queerness, queering, and queer theory.

From Salon • Jun. 20, 2020

Gonzalez was clearly influenced by Mario Bava and Dario Argento’s highly stylized, operatic violence, but his queering of horror feels very now rather than fetishistically retro.

From New York Times • Jun. 9, 2020

He says nobody can win any money on a Bible horse without queering his luck.

From Old Man Curry Race Track Stories by Van Loan, Charles E. (Charles Emmett)