Dictionary

heteronormal en · ADJ

Etymology

From hetero- + normal.

Meanings

1. Conforming to heteronormativity; accepting or promoting traditional views on gender and heterosexuality.
   • Yet letting go of the need to keep my heteronormal self alive, I have come to more fully embrace and gain sustenance from my "real" family who have been there all along. 2001, Mary Bernstein, Renate Reimann, Queer Families, Queer Politics: Challenging Culture and the State, page 33:
   • Spiegel quite evidently did not fear that Williams's material was too extreme for an industry and public that only three years before had been scandalized by the merest suggestion of unconventional (though heteronormal) sex in Baby Doll. 2009, R. Barton Palmer, William Robert Bray, Hollywood's Tennessee: The Williams Films and Postwar America:

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Relateds

heteronormality