Citations:queerbaiting

Noun: "(LGBT, fandom slang) the practice of creating homoerotic tension between two characters..."

 * 2013, Emmett Scout, "Please Do Not Bait the Queers", The Next (University of Washington Bothell), 19 June 2013:
 * Queerbaiting reaches out to the queer-friendly fandom audience and lays the foundation for a relationship which the fan community quickly interprets as queer and develops through fanwork, creating interest in the dynamic between those characters and drawing more viewers to the show. Meanwhile, the creators themselves avoid the backlash that comes with writing queer characters. In this way they also avoid making any social progress.
 * 2013, Matthew Ellison, "Queerbaiting", Salient (Victoria University of Wellington), Volume 76, Issue 23, 7 October 2013, page 39:
 * Queerbaiting is erasure. It’s telling queer people that they don’t exist, or that our stories aren’t worth telling, and it’s harmful.
 * 2013, Mollie Forman, "Eat the executive", Post- (Brown University), 20 November 2013:
 * Some feel that fan pressure to emphasize Buffy and Spike’s relationship spoiled the last few seasons of Joss Whedon’s show, and many fans were alienated by Teen Wolf’s recent queer-baiting.
 * 2013, Jem Nockles, "Queerbaiting", Honi Soit (University of Sydney), Week 8, Semester 2, page 21:
 * Queerbaiting is when writers and actors get together and decide that there is going to be glaringly obvious rainbow subtext infused into every action of a particular character.
 * 2014, Reginakoh Yee Ping, "Ender's Game: Regarding the Controversy", The Ridge Magazine (National University of Singapore Students' Union), January/February 2014, page 13:
 * Fans have been known to reinterpret media into any fashion they choose; one example being Steven Moffat and whether his views are apparent in his work on the television dramas DOCTOR WHO and SHERLOCK; the homoerotic subtext within both works could be interpreted as a progression of LGBT presence in mainstream media, or queer baiting from the show runners.
 * 2014, Maneesha Dullewe, "A brief guide to queerbaiting", Ceylon Today, 29 June 2014:
 * Criticism of queerbaiting also does not imply that creators need to be dictated to by fans on how to run their show;
 * 2014, Conor Murphy, "Gay audiences are interested in more than eye candy", The Daily Cardinal (University of Wisconsin-Madison), 16 October 2014 - 19 October 2014, page 4:
 * The MTV show "Teen Wolf" has been working its werewolf-fueled magic in queer baiting since the show premiered in 2011.