homonormativity

Noun

homonormativity (countable and uncountable, plural homonormativities)

1. 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).
   • 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.2009, Environment and Planning, page 755
   • 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; [...]2009, Anne Bottomley, Simone Wong, Changing Contours of Domestic Life, Family and Law: Caring and Sharing, →ISBN
2. The adoption of heterosexist values, beliefs and norms into the gay or queer community.
   • I'm an activist, but in Kelowna I felt like my safety is predicated on silence and white middle-class homonormativity.2009, Rachel Epstein, Who's Your Daddy?: And Other Writings on Queer Parenting, page 255
   • Indeed, queer thinkers have pointed out how heteronormativity and homonormativity are belied by the diversity of desires and relationships that already characterise many people's lives, and that transcend the ideological identities and proprieties that heteronormative and homonormative institutions...2012, Dr Gavin Brown, Dr Jason Lim, Professor Kath Browne, Geographies of Sexualities: Theory, Practices and Politics, →ISBN, page 58