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queer-baiting

queer-baiting is the alternative form of queerbaiting.

Meaning of queerbaiting

Noun

queerbaiting (uncountable)

  1. (slang) The practice of creating homoerotic tension between two characters in a narrative work (particularly a television series) without the intention of ever developing it into an actual same-sex relationship or explicitly addressing the question of either character's sexuality.
    • Queerbaiting is erasure. It’s telling queer people that they don’t exist, or that our stories aren’t worth telling, and it’s harmful.2013 October 7, Matthew Ellison, “Queerbaiting”, in Salient, volume 76, number 23, Victoria University of Wellington, page 39

Questions about queer-baiting

What is queer-baiting the alternative form of?
Queer-baiting is the alternative form of queerbaiting.

Words near queer-baiting in the dictionary

  1. Queer Street
  2. queer studies
  3. queer theoretical
  4. queer theory
  5. queer up
  6. queer-baiting
  7. queer-bash
  8. queer-bashed
  9. queer-bashes
  10. queer-bashing
  11. queerable

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