wangxian‘s true love and cql’s lack of queerbaiting set the bar so high I’ll never be satisfied with settling for subpar queerbaity content from shows like sherlock, spn, teen wolf, (etc) anymore.
Oh wow I had totally forgotten how extreeeeeemely queerbaity Sherlock was from the very first episode.
2021 March 29, Gavia Baker-Whitelaw (@Hello_Tailor), Twitter[5]:
But from a corporate Disney POV... a few moments in ep 2 felt cynical & queerbaity in a very dated way. Especially in the context of how Bucky is widely interpreted as a queer-coded character.
2021 April 30, Twily (@twilytgrdnfaery), Twitter[6]:
HIGHLY recommend this to anyone who was a baby queer in the early aughts, but ESPECIALLY if you ALSO had a complicated relationship with this queerbaity track. [referring to "I Kissed a Girl" by Katy Perry]
Listen, even if we didn't have a kiss, we got a healthy lesbian couple on screen, being cute and being out, not that ambiguous queerbaity shit we often get.
seeing ppl lump dr who in with sherlock and spn as queerbaity makes me LOSE MY MARBLESSS cause they haven't watched the show in like 8 years and it show
2021, Carpetgarden, quoted in Liam Konemann, "New Beacons", Loud and Quiet, Issue 148 (2021), page 62:
[Now] there's a lot more representation, and I think it's good to have that representation be authentic, and from an actual queer person who has been through it, who has been called slurs and whose life is at risk all the time. I've noticed a lot with pop music lately, it's kind of queer-baity.