Concept information
Preferred term
heterosexism
Definition
- Heterosexism is an ideological system that privileges heterosexuality while simultaneously stigmatizing, erasing, or otherwise denigrating lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, and queer (LGBTQ) sexuality, relationships, and identities. Whereas homophobia is frequently understood as an individual's expression of sexual prejudice against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, and/or queer people, heterosexism operates at the institutional level. [Source: Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World The Multimedia Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World; Heterosexism]
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/heterosexism
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