Heteronormative

Quick meaning: Heteronormative is an adjective meaning Of or pertaining to the practices and institutions that privilege or value heterosexuality, heterosexual relationships, and traditional gender roles as fundamental and "natural" within society.

Meaning

Of or pertaining to the practices and institutions that privilege or value heterosexuality, heterosexual relationships, and traditional gender roles as fundamental and "natural" within society.

Example Sentences

In the same way, homosexuality and bisexuality will always be seen as problematic in heteronormative organizations.

Much of the language used when discussing wedding planning is heteronormative, which can alienate homosexual couples.

This suggests both that film studies can be heteronormative even when it is analyzing homosexual representations and that close textual analysis is itself structured by heterosexual presumptions and assumptions.

Homonationalism needs to be more broadly understood as one dimension of “homonormativity,” which Lisa Duggan described over a decade ago as a gay mindset that does not “contest dominant heteronormative assumptions and institutions but upholds and sustains them.”

Antonyms for heteronormative

Common opposites include homonormative, nonheteronormative.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include homonormative, heteroerotic, heteropatriarchal, orthosexual, other-sex, binormative.

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