queerantine

plural queerantines

1. countablehumorousuncountableA quarantine experienced by one or more queer (sexually unconventional) people during the COVID-19 pandemic.

   Or, as another user put it in a post that invited members to a WhatsApp chat: “JOIN US IN QUEERANTINE. Self isolation need not be so lonely.”

   2020 March 18, Penelope Green, “‘Join us in queerantine’: a dating app builds a community”, in New York Times (online)

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   This is my winged eleganza best costume for today! #goforthegold #billyporterfashionchallenge #theebillyporter #diydiva #queerantine #quarantinebutmakeitfashion

   2020 March 27, Celia Fernandez, quoting Tony Elder (@forgotten_fabric), “Billy Porter asked fans to recreate his Met Gala look, and they delivered”, in Insider, archived from the original on 29 Jun 2020

   Olly has been hosting weekly Queerantine parties since March. Having started out via Instagram Live, the Saturday club nights have now transferred over to Zoom.

   2020 June 14, Adam Maidment, “Queerantine parties bring Gay Village into living rooms”, in Manchester Evening News, Glasgow, page 10

   The present study aims to address this need through analysing data from the Queerantine study (a portmanteau of queer and quarantine), a web-based survey that assesses how LGBTQ+ adults are experiencing the coronavirus pandemic. In the present paper, we examine extent to which respondents to the Queerantine survey experienced forms of sexuality or gender-based discrimination, including harassment and exclusion, during the coronavirus pandemic.

   2021 June 25, Kneale, Dylan, and Laia Bécares, “Discrimination as a predictor of poor mental health among LGBTQ+ people during the COVID-19 pandemic: cross-sectional analysis of the online Queerantine study”, in BMJ Open, volume 11, →DOI, page 3