queerbaiting
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See also: queer-baiting and queer baiting
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queerbaiting (uncountable)
- (LGBT, fandom 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.
- 2013 October 7, Matthew Ellison, “Queerbaiting”, in Salient, volume 76, number 23, Victoria University of Wellington, page 39:
- 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 November 20, Mollie Forman, “Eat the executive”, in Post, Brown University:
- Some feel that fan pressure to emphasize Buffy and Spike’s relationship spoiled the last few seasons of Joss Whedon’s show, and many fans were alienated by Teen Wolf’s recent queer-baiting.
- 2014 June 29, Maneesha Dullewe, “A brief guide to queerbaiting”, in Ceylon Today:
- Criticism of queerbaiting also does not imply that creators need to be dictated to by fans on how to run their show; […]
- 2024 January 10, Laura Snapes, “Taylor Swift’s people shut down speculation about her sexuality – but risked rebuking her LGBTQ fans”, in The Guardian[1], →ISSN:
- And as a much better NYT comment piece on queerbaiting put it last year: “As self-serving as some celebrity caginess can be, you can’t build a world in which everyone feels free to self-identify by ordering everyone to self-identify.”
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:queerbaiting.