heterosexualism

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Discrimination against non-heterosexual people on the basis of their sexual orientation.

   • What I fear is the normalization of homosexual behavior, which otherwise stands as a challenge to heterosexualism—the belief that all sexual behavior should be procreative or at least not preclude the possibility of babymaking.
   • The organization is no longer a coalition against racism. It's now a coalition against racism, sexism, classism, militarism and heterosexualism.
2. 2

   The state or existence of heterosexuality, including the traditional gender roles that…

   The state or existence of heterosexuality, including the traditional gender roles that accompany it.

   • The moral fabric of American family life centered on the suburban "split level family" of the suburbs, upholding the values and beliefs of heterosexualism, as pictured in the novels of Edmund White and other recent gay writers.
3. 3

   Synonym of heterosexuality.

   • My viewpoint is one that bears directly against the view of gays and bisexual people that homosexuality is entirely normal, an equivalent substitute for heterosexualism and - as some argue - the real McCoy.
   • To keep the condition of transsexualism, and the orientation of either heterosexualism and homosexualism separate, try likening the subject to a two-layer sandwich.

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