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Queensplaining

When a drag queen gives unsolicited advice or direction to a drag king in a condescending manner, because sexism.
Queen: "Oh hun that jacket is cute. You're going to stone it, right?... It would be so fun to paint your face, except with like a FULL face...Wow your drag is so creative and unique, I wish the audience "got it" you know? Maybe if you tried a sexier song, like Usher?

King: "I did not suffer through 25 years of performative femininity just to hear cismen queensplaining drag to me all night"
by Loretta Corvetta July 5, 2021
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queersplaining

Verb; Akin to "mansplaining"

Someone not of the LGBTQIA++ community caught in the act of explaining queer challenges faced by the queer community, or queer culture to queer people. May be used in a serious or funny context.
Cis Straight Man: "well actually let me explain the issues that today's gay community faces"

Queer community: "Is he really about to do some queersplaining? "
by PurpleUnicorns!!!!!!!!! April 26, 2017
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queersplaining

Unwelcome and unprovoked ranting about ones own identity. Typically includes narcissistic ramblings and demanding impossible standards that aren't intuitive to anyone, hence the emphasis on "education" in the form of yelling and exasperated aspirations.
The writer spent more time queersplaining than developing characters, so their script was terrible.

I got held up in line because a patron thought queersplaining to the minimum wage employee was more important than ordering their food.

i.e. Woke Evangelicals, Queer Bible Man
e.g. Che from "And Just Like That.."
by Anita Noam Ann February 1, 2022
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