queerspeak
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]queerspeak (uncountable)
- The style of language used by people who are queer, or do not conform to norms of gender and sexuality.
- 1986 December 7, Marcos Bisticas-Cocoves, “Just the Facts, Miss Thing”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 21, page 11:
- We should drop newspeak in favor of queerspeak: the ways different gay men and lesbians really communicate. Stories fashioned after journal entries, letters to friends, conversations.