Homonormativity 101: What It Is and How It’s Hurting Our Movement
This is an excerpt from an article that is very important regarding the queer movement and the shaming for non-normativity. The full article is here: http://everydayfeminism.com/2015/01/homonormativity-101/
“Homonormativity is a word that addresses the problems of privilege we see in the queer community today as they intersect with White privilege, capitalism, sexism, transmisogyny, and cissexism, all of which end up leaving many people out of the movement toward greater sexual freedom and equality.
As social attitudes change around queer relationships, we’re seeing more representations of queer people in the media, though this representation is incredibly limited.
Turn on the TV or flip through a magazine – for each of the few times that you’ll see a queer person, they’ll more than likely be a cisgender, gender-normative, White, middle class, gay-identifying person.
From the television shows Modern Family and The New Normal to TV personalities Anderson Cooper and Neil Patrick Harris, the voices that are given space and visibility tend to be those of a particular class, of a particular gender expression, and of a particular race.
The kinds of queer relationships we see represented in the media are also limiting, in that they tend to mimic heteronormative binary gender expressions.”
Leave Shame Behind 