queerbait

Meanings

Noun

• A man who is attractive to queer/gay people.

Verb

• To create homoerotic tension between two characters in a narrative work (particularly a television series) without the intention of ever developing it into an actual same-sex relationship or explicitly addressing the question of either character's sexuality, mostly as a way of reeling in an LGBT audience

Related

Similar words

• gaybait

Origin

• queer + bait