queernormative

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English

Etymology

From queer +‎ normative.

Adjective

queernormative (comparative more queernormative, superlative most queernormative)

  1. Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting queernormativity.
    • 2017, Jason Orne, Boystown: Sex and Community in Chicago, page 233:
      If queernormative spaces keep people constantly on guard, fearful others will attack them for a wrong move, then those spaces will be alienating, even for those who stay within them.
    • 2020, Kaustav Chakraborty, Queering Tribal Folktales from East and Northeast India, page ix:
      Apart from rediscovering/decolonising the queernormative heritage of the Indian Indigenous past,
    • 2020, Alex Stitt, ACT for Gender Identity: The Comprehensive Guide, page 202:
      Defying this, Western queer culture actively defuses from cisnormative values, yet in so doing may also fuse with their new, queernormative value constructs.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:queernormative.