"queerdom" meaning in English

See queerdom in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: queerdoms [plural]
Etymology: From queer + -dom. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|queer|dom}} queer + -dom Head templates: {{en-noun|-|s}} queerdom (usually uncountable, plural queerdoms)
  1. The world of queer (non-heterosexual) people; queer people collectively; queerness, queerhood. Tags: uncountable, usually Categories (topical): LGBTQ

Inflected forms

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          "text": "\"The on-line world is the biggest thing to happen to queerdom in a very long time and it's the best thing that has happened to queerdom in my lifetime,\" he observed in an article that appeared in a 1997 issue of the gay publication San Francisco Frontiers News Magazine [...]",
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