Word: heteronormativityã
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Dates: during 2003-2003
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...organizers say that the BGLTSA’s slogan is too ambiguous and could be read as allowing for the continuation of heteronormativity??i.e. “we” could be read to mean heterosexual supporters and the slogan could imply that queers need the support of heterosexuals...
...decontextualization of a once-potent political action, the BGLTSA’s event re-defined silence as the silence of the closet. Needless to say, the silence of the closet is not the silence of the grave. To be, as one sign put it, “Silenced by Heteronormativity?? is a condition easily remedied by coming out and staying out. To compare this to the absolute silence of the victims of homophobia cheapens their deaths; it is not only politically ineffective, it is actively retrogressive...
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