"de-queer" meaning in English

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          "text": "The queer movement is dequeered and presented as if it were entirely white, middle-class, and family-oriented.",
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          "text": "Joan Acocella's polemic against this body of scholarship has had the effect of de-queering Cather for a general readership.",
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        "(LGBTQ) To hide, diminish, or reject queerness."
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