COLUMN: Queerbaiting forces queer people to minimize themselves

COLUMN: Queerbaiting forces queer people to minimize themselves

Queerbaiting is the latest marketing tactic I have noticed in modern media, something that has been on the uptick for the last decade. The Oxford English Dictionary defines queerbaiting as “the practice of incorporating apparently or potentially LGBTQ characters or relationships into a film, television show, etc., as a means of attracting or appealing to LGBTQ audiences, while remaining deliberately coy or ambiguous about the characters’ sexuali…