Tenderqueer

Quick meaning: Tenderqueer is a noun meaning (slang, often derogatory) An LGBT+ person with a gentle, sensitive, openly emotional disposition, particularly when cultivated as an insincere or self-serving affectation.

Meaning

(slang, often derogatory) An LGBT+ person with a gentle, sensitive, openly emotional disposition, particularly when cultivated as an insincere or self-serving affectation.

Example Sentences

Sad Boi extraordinaire, reproductive justice fighter and unabashed tenderqueer—Fallon Simard is a rare voice within Indigenous art.

Carrying your comfort with you is protection for the sweetly sensitive bull. You're a tenderqueer of few words, and you always make them count.

Tenderqueers are especially adept at using the watery language of therapy as a means to get out of most things. They’ll ghost you for three weeks then, when you call them out on it, will reply something like, “Your negative energy is affecting my ability to heal from past life trauma.”

Word Forms

• tenderqueers

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include queer, queerosexual, queerbait, genderqueer, queerdo, lgbt.

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