queernormativity
queernormativity noun: normalization of queer people, identities, and relationships, especially in a manner that centers or privileges some forms of queerness over others.
Noun
queernormativity (uncountable)
- 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...
Origin of queernormativity
From queer + normativity.
Questions about queernormativity
- What does queernormativity mean?
- Queernormativity means normalization of queer people, identities, and relationships, especially in a manner that centers or privileges some forms of queerness over others.
- What part of speech is queernormativity?
- Queernormativity is a noun.
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