queerling

plural queerlings

1. LGBTQ slangA young or immature queer person.

   When I was just a queerling, I once asked my dad if Tommy Tune was gay (Dad and I are both fans - don't ask). Dad replied, "Well son, if he isn't he sure missed a good opportunity."

   1998 April 9, Skidm0, “Re: [long] All of them gay?”, in alt.gossip.celebrities (Usenet)

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   There really has been a renaissance of young queerlings, which given the depths of despair of the mid to latish 80's would have been hard to predict. We're not going away and now even the media cannot completely ignore that fact either.

   1994 April 3, Michael Thomas, “Re: IKEA thoughts”, in soc.motss (Usenet)

   It was then that I saw how life could be if you let it happen. It was a revelation to me, though I was hardly the first queerling to find his heart in the midst of a theater troupe.

   2017, Armistead Maupin, Logical Family: A Memoir, London: Doubleday, →ISBN, page 138

   Synonyms: baby queer