queernormativity en · NOUN
Etymology
From queer + normativity.
Meanings
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(uncountable) Normalization of queer people, identities, and relationships, especially in a manner that centers or privileges some forms of queerness over others.
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: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: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: