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homonormativity

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  • Given your sexuality, one might imagine, (albeit in a sort of "homonormativity",) that the whole Wicked Witch style "and your little dog too!" routine would be seen as ... well ... wicked by a "friend of Dorothy", so to speak -- as a cruel enmity taken to the level of outright malevolence against any and all associated with you.

    How Not to be a Writer Hal Duncan 2009

  • Given your sexuality, one might imagine, (albeit in a sort of "homonormativity",) that the whole Wicked Witch style "and your little dog too!" routine would be seen as ... well ... wicked by a "friend of Dorothy", so to speak -- as a cruel enmity taken to the level of outright malevolence against any and all associated with you.

    Archive 2009-01-01 Hal Duncan 2009

  • You could see the idea of “genre” fiction as the flipside — paraliteranormativity as a sort of homonormativity, the tendency of gay guys to adopt a whole frickin lifestyle based around… I dunno, bad dance music and hair product.

    War of All Against All: Realism vs Fabulism? Er, No… 2009

  • That's why we have special enclaves like Provincetown, where my partner and I will be this weekend enjoying the blessings of homonormativity.

    Swarthmore, conquering heteronormativity with pornographic chalkings. Ann Althouse 2006

  • Gold's opinion, shared by many, is best understood as a power struggle based in homonormativity.

    The Bilerico Project 2010

  • As a flipside of heteronormativity it's like there's a sort of homonormativity, a fantasy that the carnal desires of gay men are not, by definition, a subset of the carnal desires of men, and an assumptive characterisation that grows out of this fantasy, that the flipping of sexual attraction goes hand-in-hand with a flipping of all those social behaviours and attitudes centred around sex.

    Notes From The Geek Show 2009

  • During our current frenzy over same-sex marriage, rarely do we hear about those of us whose lives are situated outside of the domain of homonormativity, in spaces marked by concomitant axes of race, class, and sexual marginalization. execution-style murder of Duanna Johnson, a black transwoman from Memphis, Tennessee.

    Frank Leon Roberts 2008

  • (there was mc hammer involved, but i'm going to just draw a veil of discretion over that.) tags: aggressive homonormativity, oppreshunz mood: confused

    um... ladyjax 2010

  • * oh noes*! tags: aggressive heteronormativity, aggressive homonormativity, i haz powahs (?), sexuality

    for poetry month. when i love, nizar qabbani. nantahala 2010

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