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gender-bending

American  
[jen-der bend-ing] / ˈdʒɛn dər ˌbɛnd ɪŋ /

adjective

  1. of or relating to someone or something that challenges traditional societal norms related to gender.


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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

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

The sea is “the only lover whose arms are always open to us,” wrote the gender-bending French writer and photographer Claude Cahun, whose unique body of work inspired the season opener at the Münchner Kammerspiele.

From New York Times Oct. 6, 2022

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