On this episode of Queer Temple, hosts Thalia Lash and Laila Page and producer Emily Hildenbrand get a lesson on queerbaiting.
To start us off, Thalia sits down with Dr. Adrienne Shaw, a Media Studies and Production professor at Temple, discusses the difference between queerbaiting and queer reading. Dr. Shaw also explains why how queerbaiting looks different across different forms of media.
Next, Laila Page chats with pop culture journalist Patrick Lenton in Australia, who has written on LGBTQ+ issues in pop culture. He gives insight into the phenomenon of accusing real people and celebrities of queerbaiting, and how this has become a dangerous and unsafe practice online.
To close it out, Emily is joined virtually by content creator Sarah Z. to discuss how content creators can avoid queerbaiting in content creation and social media.
