baby queer

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English

Noun

baby queer (plural baby queers)

  1. An LGBT person who is newly out, newly active, unsure about their identity/queerness, or young compared to other members of the community.
    Hyponyms: baby gay, baby trans
    Coordinate term: baby bat
    • 2013 September 23, S. Bear Bergman, Blood, Marriage, Wine, & Glitter, arsenal pulp press, →ISBN:
       [] and kept me so connected to my congregation—and my Jewish identity—even when forces of queerness started to seem like they might push me away. The Sosteks, the Weisses, the Fischlers, the Arbeits: they welcomed baby-queer-me with tenderness, and ran interference with my parents about it for, oh, a decade. Ish.
    • 2019 February 5, Bridget Liang, What Makes You Beautiful, James Lorimer & Company, →ISBN, page 32:
      "Wait, you just came out yesterday? I didn't realize you were just a baby queer." I look up and see her palm covering her face. This is the second time someone has called me a baby queer.
    • 2021 October 28, Gregory Samantha Rosenthal, Living Queer History: Remembrance and Belonging in a Southern City, UNC Press Books, →ISBN, page 3:
      Not only a newly out baby queer, I was also a baby Southerner. I had never lived south of the Verrazano Bridge. The learning curve was steep. To be queer in the Appalachian South was different than being queer in Brooklyn.