Heteronationalism

Quick meaning: Heteronationalism is a noun meaning (neologism) The association of a nationalist ideology with heterosexual ideals used against LGBTI people and as an antagonism of countries where LGBTI rights have been legislated.

Meaning

(neologism) The association of a nationalist ideology with heterosexual ideals used against LGBTI people and as an antagonism of countries where LGBTI rights have been legislated.

Example Sentences

There is a vicious circle of escalating antagonism between the new homonationalism of LGBTQI communities and what can by analogy be called “heteronationalism”: the adoption of anti-LGBTQI attitudes as an expression of insurgent national, ethnic and/or religious identity.

Heteronationalism draws from homophobia to enforce the nations one masculine image by excluding homosexuals or effeminate masculinities from the nation—to demark both internal and external boundaries—and to claim the dominant position in the masculine hierarchy of nations.

Word Forms

• heteronationalisms

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include homonationalism, homonormativity, heteronormativism, heterocentrism, feminationalism, heterocracy.

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