Teresa de Lauretis herself was among the first ones to notice this, as she quickly dissociated herself from the denomination she had coined. De Lauretis considered that since she “proposed it as a working hypothesis for lesbian and gay studies”, Queer Theory had “very quickly become a conceptually vacuous creature of the publishing industry."
Así lo hizo ante todo Teresa de Lauretis, quien rápidamente se desvincula de la denominación que ella misma acuñara, por considerar que “desde que lo propuse como una hipótesis de trabajo para los estudios gay lésbicos … se transformó muy rápidamente en una criatura conceptualmente vacua de la industria editorial” , p. 297.