tenderqueer

== English == === Etymology === From tender +‎ queer, as a play on genderqueer. === Noun === tenderqueer (plural tenderqueers) (slang, often derogatory) An LGBT+ person with a gentle, sensitive, openly emotional disposition, particularly when cultivated as an insincere or self-serving affectation. 2016, Sally Mulligan, "Turn A Look: Taurus", PQ Monthly, April/May 2016, page 21: 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. 2017, Lindsay Nixon, "Fallon Simard – Monetized, But Agential, Bodies in Ghost Worlds", Esse, Number 91, Fall 2017, page 70: Sad Boi extraordinaire, reproductive justice fighter and unabashed tenderqueer—Fallon Simard is a rare voice within Indigenous art. For more quotations using this term, see Citations:tenderqueer.