gender-bending
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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Delighting in the performance and applauding from the floor pit are gender-bending members of the new bohemia, alongside champagne-sipping deputies in tuxedos of the Berlin elite.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2025
In 2018, L.A. choreographer Benjamin Millepied created a site-specific gender-bending version of Prokofiev’s ballet with his L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 2024
According to the center, this isn’t the first year Macy’s has featured gender-bending performers: In 2021, transgender pop star Kim Petras rode on a parade float.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 16, 2023
There are very strong showings here by well-regarded artist like Hope Gangloff, Julie Heffernan, Sheila Hicks, Kurt Kauper, Pieter Schoolwerth and Tavares Strachan — even watercolors by the famed, gender-bending 19th-century author George Sand.
From New York Times ● Nov. 2, 2023
During the eighth year of this gender-bending Seattle festival, hosts Tito Bonito and Shelly Watson will facilitate a night of burlesque, drag, variety and circus performers on stage at The Triple Door.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 30, 2023
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