Sentence:  We might say that there has been a ‘<WSD>queering</WSD>' of urban studies insofar as the metropolitan lives, subcultures and social movements of gays and lesbians are now seen as valid objects of study. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To reevaluate or reinterpret (a work) with an eye to sexual orientation and/or to gender, as by applying queer theory.