Homonormativity

Quick meaning: Homonormativity is a noun meaning (LGBTQ) The adoption of heterosexist values, beliefs and norms into the gay or queer community.

Meaning

(LGBTQ) The adoption of heterosexist values, beliefs and norms into the gay or queer community.

More Meanings

1. (LGBTQ) The assumption that sexual and romantic attraction and activity between people of the same sex is normal, either as the only normal, or in a culture which also treats opposite-sex activity as normal (and typically assumes all people are either male or female).

Example Sentences

I'm an activist, but in Kelowna I felt like my safety is predicated on silence and white middle-class homonormativity.

Homonormativity is largely a product of tolerance and, as Brown tells us, tolerance, among other things, exists in the social realm to cover over inequitable particularities in the legal sphere.

Homonormativity results in reiterating the gender roles that anchor heteronormativity to power (even though the connections to bodies may seem to be more lax) and regularly punishes "those who fail to do their gender right" (Butler, 1990, p. 140)

Duggan is careful to acknowledge that her identification of homonormativity does not create a category that parallels and reflects heteronormativity, as there are no gay structures parallel to those supporting and sustaining heterosexuality; [...]

Word Forms

• homonormativities

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include heteronormativity, mononormativity, homonormalization, allonormativity, homoromanticism, binormativity.

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