queerdom

English

Etymology

From queer +‎ -dom.

Noun

queerdom (usually uncountable, plural queerdoms)

  1. The world of queer (non-heterosexual) people; queer people collectively; queerness, queerhood.
    • 1994, Christopher Street, numbers 215-220, page 12:
      Never once, for instance, did he mention homosexuality by name. He called it ' 'queerdom.' '
    • 2004, Ron Eglash, Appropriating Technology:
      "The on-line world is the biggest thing to happen to queerdom in a very long time and it's the best thing that has happened to queerdom in my lifetime," he observed in an article that appeared in a 1997 issue of the gay publication San Francisco Frontiers News Magazine [...]
    • 2010, Anna G. Creadick, Perfectly Average: The Pursuit of Normality in Postwar America:
      On another occasion, he felt compelled to address his girlfriend/mentor Lowney Handey's jealousy by quelling any suspicions of “queerdom”: [...]
    • 2018 WTF QUEER Wednesday - For Zak / Zackie Dutch Art Institute
      This is the reason that the queerdom gathers, energy and strength, to not be standing on its ground like a true man, but in its fucking heels like a queen.
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