Color Gating

Gate keeping things from certain color people.

Daniel Kim: You aren’t allow to eat rice.
: Why? Are you color gating me?

by anonymous July 4, 2024

Grief Gating

The act of selectively mourning the death of someone based on their political or ideological alignment, while ignoring or rationalizing the deaths of those outside one’s tribe. A form of emotional compartmentalization that reveals unconscious bias in expressions of empathy.

When the invited speaker was killed, the campus held vigils and posted tributes. But when a student protester died last year, barely anyone mentioned it. That’s grief gating—mourning filtered through ideological lenses.

by Briton Phillip September 11, 2025

Queer-gating

When you and your significant other hide your queerness from others. Not like queerbaiting at all, instead it’s acting straight instead of queer.

To gate-keep one’s queerness from others.

When you’re gay but can’t show public affection to your significant other you are “queer-gating”.

by lost thinker December 14, 2025

Queer-gating

When you and your significant other hide your queerness from others. Not like queerbaiting at all, instead it’s acting straight instead of queer.

To gate-keep one’s queerness from others.

When you’re gay but can’t show public affection to your significant other you are “queer-gating”.

by lost thinker December 14, 2025