The idea that any heterosexual can be called 'queer' is highly contested.
The concept was first discussed in the mid-1990s, critically within radical feminism, and as a positive identification by Clyde Smith in a paper delivered at a conference in Amsterdam in 1997 in 2003, The Village Voice published an article called 'The Queer Heterosexual', which has since been cited by others using the term. 'Queer heterosexuality' is argued to consist of heterosexual, cisgender and allosexual persons who show nontraditional gender expressions, or who adopt gender roles that differ from the hegemonic masculinity and femininity of their particular culture. Queer heterosexuality is heterosexual practice or identity that is controversially called queer. Heterosexual practice or identity controversially labelled queer
