Power Queer
The Power Queer is the newest need in television and film. This is a character that started becoming more common in the late 2010s when producers and writers started to realize it was no longer okay for gay male characters to either be "best friend" screaming queens with no real personality except for being gay with no love interest or they were stoic (humourless) with a whisper of a love interest who then dies or gets murdered. A Power Queer is a high-status queer character, usually gay, a fully developed character, self-possessed, and who functionally moves the story along - either a person in charge or a personality who has the power to move and/or change the plot. And "being gay" is not their only character trait. They can have campiness in their toolbox, but that is not what defines them. They are not the butt of jokes, and they don't need to die to be humanized
The Power Queer is the newest need in television and film. This is a character that started becoming more common in the late 2010s when producers and writers started to realize it was no longer okay for gay male characters to either be "best friend" screaming queens with no real personality except for being gay with no love interest or they were stoic (humourless) with a whisper of a love interest who then dies or gets murdered. A Power Queer is a high-status queer character, usually gay, a fully developed character, self-possessed, and who functionally moves the story along - either a person in charge or a personality who has the power to move and/or change the plot. And "being gay" is not their only character trait. They can have campiness in their toolbox, but that is not what defines them. They are not the butt of jokes, and they don't need to die to be humanized
Thom Allison, a veteran actor who plays Sheyonce, the bar owner, opposite Alexandra Billings, in the feature film QUEEN TUT, says, "Being sought out for the role of Sheyonce is a testament to being in the business for a long time and the kind of characters I have played. My partner, Micah Barnes, and I call this category the ‘Power Queer’ ."
by Roundstone February 7, 2023
Get the Power Queermug. After Burger Queen dropped that dumbass commercial about a burger you can fuck, we have been hard at work here at arbys headquaters making a burger you can fuck, then eat. Take that Burger Queer, I already fucked the burger we have in our commercials, and I came hard in that nigga. bum bum bum bum arbys we have the meat.
by Gorilla Tag Fella June 20, 2023
Get the Burger Queermug. (note that this should not exist but it still does bc corporate entities and pick me straight girls think so)
NOUN
The attention, praise, idolize/pedestalization, and all around buzz around queer identities.
This term is more commonly used by actual queer individuals in reference to someone pretending to be queer/identifying as heteroflexible, appropriating queer culture, or performatively supporting the LGBTQ+ community for attention. I is also used in reference to big brands/corporations using LGBTQ+ to sell or promote something.
NOUN
The attention, praise, idolize/pedestalization, and all around buzz around queer identities.
This term is more commonly used by actual queer individuals in reference to someone pretending to be queer/identifying as heteroflexible, appropriating queer culture, or performatively supporting the LGBTQ+ community for attention. I is also used in reference to big brands/corporations using LGBTQ+ to sell or promote something.
"Megan's not actually bi, she's just looking for queer clout 🙄"
"She put heteroflexible in her bio LOL, so obvious she's just a queer clout chaser."
"Just because blank brand changed their logo to rainbow, doesn't mean queer clout's gonna do anything for them"
"Typically but not always, people who say they're "bicurious" are queer clout chasers."
"She put heteroflexible in her bio LOL, so obvious she's just a queer clout chaser."
"Just because blank brand changed their logo to rainbow, doesn't mean queer clout's gonna do anything for them"
"Typically but not always, people who say they're "bicurious" are queer clout chasers."
by Demon Bunny June 6, 2021
Get the Queer Cloutmug. by the come goblin December 5, 2021
Get the queer baitmug. by skydnadsabelden December 9, 2017
Get the queer faggotrymug. by Boozy Gang March 11, 2018
Get the Straight-Queermug. Person 1: Harry and Ginny paid $10,000 less this year in taxes.
Person 2: Pshh. Tax Queers. They only do it for the money, not love.
Person 2: Pshh. Tax Queers. They only do it for the money, not love.
by MorphLord October 1, 2017
Get the Tax queersmug.