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Heterosexuality - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Compulsory heterosexuality is the assumption that women and men are innately attracted to each other emotionally and sexually and that heterosexuality is universal, a view that leads to an institutional inequality of power that privileges heterosexual males and denigrates women, especially lesbians. ... In her essay,
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Queer heterosexuality - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Queer heterosexuality describes heterosexual practice that is queer. The concept was first discussed in the mid 1990s, critically within radical feminism
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Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
" Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence " is a 1980 essay by Adrienne Rich, published in her 1986 book Blood, Bread, and Poetry . Rich argues that heterosexuality is a violent political...
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Jonathan Ned Katz is a writer and historian. He is the editor of Gay American History (1976), the Gay/Lesbian Almanac (1994), and The Invention of Heterosexuality (1995).
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If there can be a history of homosexuality, why not a history of heterosexuality? The answer of course is that heterosexuality does have a history, as do heterosexuals, whether they realize it as not. Increasingly this history is being studied.
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We've lusted after former CNN anchor turned Fox Newser Bill Hemmer for – well, for far too long to admit. Our fantasies came crashing down this morning, however, when a reader sent us this very official missive: ... Dear Queerty: So, Bill Hemmer of Fox News Channel made it official ... His co-host of America's Newsroom,
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The argument that homosexuality is optional is as interesting as the argument that heterosexuality is optional. Most homosexuals become aware they have been homosexual as long as they can remember being sexual… which is remarkably similar to what most heterosexuals experience.
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According to this discourse, fear of being called out publicly as a “fag” is the primary driving force behind what Pascoe cleverly calls the display of “compulsive heterosexulity.” Playing on Adrienne Rich’s classic notion that contemporary society functions with a discourse of compulsory heterosexuality,
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In addition to spreading the gospel of Princesshood, Disney is now being accused of elevating heterosexuality to "powerful, magical" heights. ... At a very young age, children are learning that heterosexuality is normal, and homosexuality is abnormal, unusual and unexpected. Something that requires explanation.
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