The widespread fan observance of a fanon queer (relation)ship as part of an accepted body of work in a piece of media due to an a priori assumption that the characters within the fanon (relation)ship are or will be confirmed queer and circular argumentation where the inevitability/conclusion of the (relation)ship is assumed as true, often to convince or mislead a non-viewing audience that the show includes and delivers on queer representation.
Queer-leading is done in place of providing or supporting actualized queer representation in media and often leads to the phenomenon where individuals begin engaging with a piece of media expecting queer representation and then get disappointed when media that never promised queer representation fails to deliver on that representation.
Queer-leading is done in place of providing or supporting actualized queer representation in media and often leads to the phenomenon where individuals begin engaging with a piece of media expecting queer representation and then get disappointed when media that never promised queer representation fails to deliver on that representation.
Person 1: "I can't believe ABC's 9-1-1 keeps queerbaiting us! How can it give us bi-Buck, but not canon buddie?"
Person 2: "Girl, that's not queerbaiting; it's queer-leading. 9-1-1 and ABC never promised canon buddie; fans on Twitter just misled you into thinking it was endgame."
Person 2: "Girl, that's not queerbaiting; it's queer-leading. 9-1-1 and ABC never promised canon buddie; fans on Twitter just misled you into thinking it was endgame."
by YourMomIsAPsyop June 28, 2024
Get the Queer-leadingmug. A word that used to mean 'gay or lesbian', probably excluding bisexual and pansexual people. Nowadays it's a catch all term used to mean 'transgender, nonbinary or gender nonconforming'. Personally I do not like the widespread use of this term because transgenderism and gender conformity are both issues that are important enough to be treated separately, even though they can of course intersect. It's a bit like having a catch-all phrase that means 'woman or black person or both'. Also encourages gender essentialist thinking which is a problem on the modern 'left'.
Person A) Bob is queer.
Person B) Does that mean Bob is transgender, or gender nonconforming, or both?
Person A) I don't know.
Person B) Does that mean Bob is transgender, or gender nonconforming, or both?
Person A) I don't know.
by megafapper1995 October 21, 2020
Get the Queermug. Hey Jo how are you doing you queer
by johnyboy54 November 11, 2022
Get the Queermug. 
by Man Handel August 9, 2021
Get the Queer Baitmug. A queer identity from the imagination of Hannah Gatsby meaning someone who prefers a cup of tea over a can of V. A cocktail over a cock-tail and good book over a good sook. Basically the natural counterpart to the twink identity.
They are a t-cup queer, dude, you want find them out of their oodie after 5 pm.
Dating a t-cup queer is hard, they will runaway if you approach them too quickly and they are amused by the weirdest shit...
Dating a t-cup queer is hard, they will runaway if you approach them too quickly and they are amused by the weirdest shit...
by WitnWhild February 18, 2023
Get the T-Cup Queermug. Dude came in with a ball cap pulled low and bought a soda with a 20. It was busy, and I didn’t think twice about the bill, but turned out he was pushing the queer.
by Weasel58 March 23, 2022
Get the pushing the queermug.