Contents:
- HETERONORMATIVY THE LIV OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND QUEER YOUNG PEOPLE
- HETERONORMATIVY THE LIV OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND QUEER YOUNG PEOPLE
- GAYS HETERONORMADOS: LA GRAN PARADOJA
HETERONORMATIVY THE LIV OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND QUEER YOUNG PEOPLE
J Homosex. Keywords: gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr, genr, tersectnaly, sexualy, youth/emergg adulthoodHeteronormativy is fed as the prumptn and privilegg of genr nformy, heterosexualy, and nuclear fai over all other “viant” forms of genr exprsn, sexualy, and fai (Oswald, Kuvalanka, Blume, & Berkowz, 2009).
HETERONORMATIVY THE LIV OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND QUEER YOUNG PEOPLE
Ls rearch has explored how sexual mory young adults, fed as youth ag 18–24 who endorse a lbian, gay, bisexual, or queer inty, teract wh their social environments to subvert or reproduce heteronormativy. In the current study, we e the guidg ameworks of queer and tersectnal theori to exame how lbian, gay, bisexual, and queer young adults discs heteronormativy their life history narrativ to better unrstand how they scribe, unrme, and/or rerce heteronormativy. E., women and men who are genr nonnformg are gay or lbian (Blashill & Powlishta, 2009; Nielsen et al., 2000; Tolman et al., 2015).
GAYS HETERONORMADOS: LA GRAN PARADOJA
For example, this procs occurs when youth assert social posns of masculy and heterosexualy by engagg homophobic sexual harassment of genr nonnformg youth, regardls of whether or not the youth actually intify as gay (Hequembourg & Brallier, 2009; Marto, 2000; Pase, 2011; Way, 2011) fay theorists have broaned the e of queer ameworks to exame and crique how societal disurse creat, privileg, and stigmatiz particular fay stctur to further mata the social posns of masculy and heterosexualy (Allen & Menz, 2018; Oswald et al., 2009). For stance, gay men and lbians are more likely to be genr nonnformg than heterosexual people (Li, Pollt, & Rsell, 2016), reject blogil parenthood (Goldberg, 2012), and endorse adoptn as a first choice for parenthood (Tyebjee, 2003). Queer embodiment of heteronormativy has created a polics of “homonormativy” that privileg same-genr attracted people who appear heteronormative, highlightg same-genr upl who are genr nformg, monogamo, and fay-oriented (Allen & Menz, 2018; Duggan, 2002).
Sexual mory youth also value marriage (Sav-Williams, 2011) and expect to raise children (D’Augelli, Renda, Grossman, & Sclair, 2007), valu nsistent wh homonormativy; however, whether sexual mory young adults n or want to meet the expectatns n pend on other important inti. Combg sampl of lbian, gay, and bisexual young adults whout examg distctns between and wh the groups ignor the important role that genr and heterosexualy norms play the liv of people at the margs, namely people of lor, transgenr people, bisexual people, and cisgenr women (Few-Demo, Humble, Curran, & Lloyd, 2016; hooks, 2000). The current study was guid by the followg rearch qutns: (1) How do lbian, gay, bisexual, and queer young adults make sense of societal expectatns around genr exprsn, sexual inty, and fay?
Of the cisgenr women and those assigned female at birth the sample (n = 7), five intified as bisexual or pansexual, and two intified as gay/lbian. All cisgenr men and young adults assigned male at birth intified as gay (n = 5).