Queernormativity

Quick meaning: Queernormativity is a noun meaning Normalization of queer people, identities, and relationships, especially in a manner that centers or privileges some forms of queerness over others.

Meaning

Normalization of queer people, identities, and relationships, especially in a manner that centers or privileges some forms of queerness over others.

Example Sentences

Queer spaces often give rise to a “queernormativity” premised on an “alternative respectability” that dictates how to be the “right” kind of queer.

The day of the actual parade is very special due to the fact that for a period of time heteronormativity is not the rule of public space and "queernormativity" takes over.

As I attentively plan my upcoming wedding, I can't help but wonder, how might refusing to get married, just to remain radically queer, be understood as queernormativity – the dominant, queer non-status-quo?

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include cisheteronormativity, queerdom, queerity, queerness, ablenormativity, queerishness.

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