queernormativity
nounEtymology From queer + normativity.
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Normalization of queer people, identities, and relationships, especially in a manner that centers or privileges some forms of queerness over others.
- 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.2001, Meredith Risk, Paul Moore, editors, Culture of Cities: Under Construction, page 9:
- 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?2014, Hillery Glasby, “Let Me Queer My Throat: Queer Rhetorics of Negotiation: Marriage Equality and Homonormativity”, in Brian Bailie, Steve Parks, editors, Best of the Independent Journals in Rhetoric and Composition 2014, page 45:
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- Queer spaces often give rise to a “queernormativity” premised on an “alternative respectability” that dictates how to be the “right” kind of queer.2020, Ellen Lamont, The Mating Game: How Gender Still Shapes How We Date, page 113:
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