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Queer theory is anything that isn’t “normal” in society.  In “Middlesex” there are events that can be deconstructed using queer theory.  The grandmother and grandfather of person telling the story did something “different.”  They fell in love.  They felt like it was wrong at first and tried to stop theirselves.  Once they knew they couldn’t hold back their feelings any longer they had to do something to change the way people would look at them.  They didn’t want to seem weird but they knew that’s what others would think.  So they boarded a ship to take them to safety and pretended now to know each other.  They pretended to fall in love on the ship, in front of everyone and eventually got married on the ship.  This seems like a shady thing but really they just wanted to be accepted.  They weren’t weird and deserved a chance.  This is queer theory because they did something different and covered it up.

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