Noun: "normalization of queer people, identities, and relationships, especially in a manner that centers or privileges some forms of queerness over others"
2001, Culture of Cities: Under Construction (eds. Meredith Risk & Paul Moore), page 9:
The day of the actual parade is very special due to the fact that for a period of time heteronormativity is not the rule of public space and "queernormativity" takes over.
2014, Tom Boellstorff, "Seeing Like A Queer City", in Queer Cities, Queer Cultures: Europe Since 1945 (eds. Jennifer V. Evans & Matt Cook), unnumbered page:
Queer studies scholars have for some time now developed critiques of homonormativity, which occurs when certain forms of homosexuality get ranked over others and marked for preferential inclusion by the state (in particular, the legally sanctioned couple, the white gay man, the middle class lesbian, etc.). What remains deemphasized in this body of analysis is a discussion of queernormativity: often its very existence is ignored or denied.
2014, Hillery Glasby, "Let Me Queer My Throat: Queer Rhetorics of Negotiation: Marriage Equality and Homonormativity", in Best of the Independent Journals in Rhetoric and Composition 2014 (eds. Brian Bailie & Steve Parks), page 45:
As I attentively plan my upcoming wedding, I can't help but wonder, how might refusing to get married, just to remain radically queer, be understood as queernormativity – the dominant, queer non-status-quo?
2017, Jason Orne, Boystown: Sex and Community in Chicago, page 222:
However, I want to go further to propose that perhaps being in the line of fire, forever managing your words and presence, is part of queernormativity.
2020, Tom Boellstorff, "Preface", in Sexuality and Gender at Home: Experience, Politics, Transgression (eds. Barbara Penner, Ben Campkin, Brent Pilkey, & Rachel Scicluna), page xviii:
The home provides a powerful context from which to challenge what I have elsewhere termed queernormativity (Boellstorff 2007). To assume that the domestic is always already complicit with structures of power is too facile, however reassuring, for an analysis of the home as it intersects with gender and sexuality. Sometimes the home may be normative, sometimes not.
2020, Kaustav Chakraborty, Queering Tribal Folktales from East and Northeast India, page 3:
Upholding queer as quintessentially antinormative, queernormativity often has been regarded as antithetical to queer leftism because of its expected alignment with right-wing politics (Lamont, 2017: 634).
2020, Ellen Lamont, The Mating Game: How Gender Still Shapes How We Date, page 113:
Queer spaces often give rise to a “queernormativity” premised on an “alternative respectability” that dictates how to be the “right” kind of queer.
2022, Aneesh Barai, "'The Earth is my home too, can't I help protect it?': Planetary Thinking, Queer Identities, and Environmentalism in The Legend of Korra, She-Ra, and Steven Universe", in Fantasy and Myth in the Anthropocene: Imagining Futures and Dreaming Hope in Literature and Media (eds. Brian Attebery, Marek Oziewicz, & Tereza Dedinová), page 122:
Maya Gittelman (2020) talks about She-Ra in terms of “inherent queernormativity” (n.p.), to examine how the world it presents is fundamentally different in its attitude to relationships from the norms of our own.
2022, Oliver Davis & Time Dean, Hatred of Sex, unnumbered page:
For example, the anthropologist Tom Boellstorff, building on Wiegman's argument in Object Lessons, cautions against what he calls “queernormativity” in sexuality studies.
2022, Amy L. Stone, Queer Carnival: Festivals and Mardi Gras in the South, page 23:
It does not fit neatly into what Jason Orne refers to as queernormativity, the reliance on the right phrases to signal queer virtue.
