Citations:queerbaiter

English citations of queerbaiter

a queer basher?

• 1980 April 5, Maida Tilchen, “Little Dykes?”, in Gay Community News, page 12:

  In Bless [the Beasts and Children], a delicate boy who is being tormented by queerbaiters at summer camp is rescued by a macho but sensitive boy who becomes his protector.

one who accuses someone of being queer in order to discredit them, compare red-baiting

• 2013, Esther D Rothblum, Classics in Lesbian Studies:

  Stevens, by this time a serious redbaiter and, from the evidence quoted here, a "queerbaiter" as well, apparently called a government official in 1953 to report that Strauss [a woman] was "not a bit interested in men."

one who practices queerbaiting (making things seem maybe queer)

• 2019, Joseph Brennan, Queerbaiting and Fandom: Teasing Fans through Homoerotic ..., page 170

  [...] confer further authority to queerbaiters and reinforce a closed power structure from which fans are excluded. Fan art segments then become an endorsement of queerbaiting, as they draw on the same source and seek to convey the same message of queer mockery.

• 2023, L Urbank, Queerbaiting and Its Consequences:

  The conversation around queerbaiting pressures queer people to neatly define their identity in a way that is consumable for other people, or else risk being labeled as a queerbaiter.