Queer Theory is the breaking down of a story for the purpose of looking for the revelation or concealing of queer sexual behavior behavior and attraction, which can be liable to change. They see authors as being heterosexual, which is considered the norm, unless or until the text said otherwise. In order to find out the possible sexuality of the author in the story, Queer theorist make assumptions on the sexuality of the various characters from the text, this can be seen as homophobic ideologies, heteropatriarchy, heterocentrism and homosocial relationships. Homophobic ideologies are  ideals in stories created by someone who’s afraid of or hates homosexuals, heteropatriarchy is the study of actual patriachy, male dominance with the exclusion of women, heterocentrism, where homoerotic moments are invisible and homosocial relations ships are those of the same sex who might or might not be in a sexual relationship. Same sex friendships and conversations, as well as males and females having the qualities of their respective opposing genders, are also things looked at by Queer Theorist in order to expose the the truth. Despite gender and sexuality being in someway connected, sexuality is determined by attraction while gender is decided by self-identity and Queer Theory reflects this.

One person well known for the study of Queer Theory is Judith Butler, who believes that homosexuals are the ones who consider heterosexuals normal. She also goes into the concept of drag or crossdressing, the act of men dressing in women’s clothing and how gets in the way of cultural binaries due to the fact that not all hommosexual males dress in female clothing. To her, both gender and sexuality are subject to change which is one of the basic beliefs of Queer Theory.