Idiom

Queer bashing

What does "Queer bashing" mean?

Making an unprovoked physical or verbal attack on homosexuals.

Queer bashing

Britain - 1970s.

Making an unprovoked physical or verbal attack on homosexuals.

Worldwide, but more common in Britain than elsewhere.

  • Since the skinheads have moved out of the area and it's become more cosmopolitan there has been a marked reduction in the instances of queer-bashing.