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HETERONORMATIVY THE LIV OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND QUEER YOUNG PEOPLE
Sexualy and Queer GeographiKath Browne, Andrew McCartan, Internatnal Encyclopedia of Human Geography (Send Edn), 2020Challengg HomonormativyAlongsi queer approach that suggt inti and bodi were not fixed but ntually re-ma, geographers have ntend that space is not simply the ntaer which thgs happen, but is actively produced through the actns that take place. Such geographil rearch on sexuali also examed the spatial practic of disptg heterosexual space, such as Lbian, Gay, (Bisexual and Trans) Pri events, where the streets are temporally “queered” exposg the normativy of heterosexual space. Yet scholars such as Farhang Rouhani urge nsiratns that both regnize the limatns and ntue to explore the possibili of anarchist and queer full chapterURL: and HomophobiaJodi O'Brien, Internatnal Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavral Scienc (Send Edn), 2015HomonormativyIn their 1997 book, Homoenomics, Amy Gluckman and Betsy Reed scribe the ‘gay media marketg moment’ as a perd the early 1990s the US durg which advertisers regnized that a certa class of people, namely urban gay whe men, were likely to have more discretnary e than the average married man.
Together, both functn to rescribe culturally acceptable forms of gayns that renr s associatns wh whens, genr appropriate behavr and (US fluenced) middle-class stat visible and as homophobia is a culturally learned prejudice, people learn to regnize the ‘acceptable’ homosexual based on cultural rmatn – specifilly portrayals popular culture. But paradoxilly, this has rulted a form of homonormativy that will likely unrsre and crease prejudice toward those whose liv do not reflect Wtern, middle-class, mastream, nuclear fay valu (whether same or differently genred marriag). In short, we mt plite the ia of ‘gayns’ masqueradg as a master stat that prumably transcends other forms of difference; as a kd of ‘one size fs all’ form of discrimatn that is too often applied universally and full chapterURL: Theory/Queer GeographiK.
Here, the term ‘queer’ qutng hetero/homonormativi n harbor a variety of sexual and polil articulatns cludg lbians, gays, bisexuals, bois, grrls, tranny-boi's, transwomen, transgenrists, transsexuals, transvt, cross-drsers, and drag queens. •Social workers policy-makg settgs who are workg to tablish legal and social equaly for sexual and genr mori will want to be mdful of the recent bate about ‘homonormativy’, an approach where the “rolutn of the ‘problem’ of homosexualy is found through gradual legal and civil chang rultg assiatn” (Hicks, 2008: p.