157. Queerbaiting
The Allusionist
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Queer Baiting and Queer Coating
Queer coding was the only option for showing queerness on screen, what with the lits of the hazes code compelling makers of screen entertainment to self censor. The big kind of shift is that we don't really hear a lot of queer coding. Nowadays, the language that gets used a lot is this term queer baiting. It's modelled on the phrase race baiting, which is incitement of racial hatred for political advantage.
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