queerantine

English

Etymology

Blend of queer +‎ quarantine.

Noun

queerantine (countable and uncountable, plural queerantines)

1. (humorous) A quarantine experienced by one or more queer (sexually unconventional) people during the COVID-19 pandemic.
   • 2020 March 18, Penelope Green, “‘Join us in queerantine’: a dating app builds a community”, in New York Times (online)‎^[1]:

     Or, as another user put it in a post that invited members to a WhatsApp chat: “JOIN US IN QUEERANTINE. Self isolation need not be so lonely.”

   • 2020 March 27, Celia Fernandez, quoting Tony Elder (@forgotten_fabric), “Billy Porter asked fans to recreate his Met Gala look, and they delivered”, in Insider‎^[2], archived from the original on 2020-06-29:

     This is my winged eleganza best costume for today! #goforthegold #billyporterfashionchallenge #theebillyporter #diydiva #queerantine #quarantinebutmakeitfashion

   • 2020 June 14, Adam Maidment, “Queerantine parties bring Gay Village into living rooms”, in Manchester Evening News, Glasgow, page 10:

     Olly has been hosting weekly Queerantine parties since March. Having started out via Instagram Live, the Saturday club nights have now transferred over to Zoom.

   • 2021 June 25, Kneale, Dylan, and Laia Bécares, “Discrimination as a predictor of poor mental health among LGBTQ+ people during the COVID-19 pandemic: cross-sectional analysis of the online Queerantine study”, in BMJ Open, volume 11, →DOI, page 3:

     The present study aims to address this need through analysing data from the Queerantine study (a portmanteau of queer and quarantine), a web-based survey that assesses how LGBTQ+ adults are experiencing the coronavirus pandemic. In the present paper, we examine extent to which respondents to the Queerantine survey experienced forms of sexuality or gender-based discrimination, including harassment and exclusion, during the coronavirus pandemic.