I feel like I'm failing at the game of heterosexuality–when actually, heterosexuality is failing me.
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It was for a good cause — Besides testing my heterosexuality.
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How could I have missed this milestone of compulsory heterosexuality?
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In 2017, he became mayor of Hell and immediately banned heterosexuality.
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Men are also socialized to defend their heterosexuality at all costs.
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In the past that has always tended towards whiteness, men, heterosexuality.
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I internalized the idea that heterosexuality was a rule to follow.
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Heterosexuality is the norm, and people who identify as LGBTQ+ are inferior.
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If only I could un-remember these most foul excursions into heterosexuality.
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"Heterosexuality often presents sex as something that's done to women," she says.
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Sparks's works insist so strongly on their heterosexuality as to burlesque straightness.
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This widespread unsteadiness is not a bug, but an active feature of heterosexuality.
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"Siri, show me heterosexuality," the writer joked above a screenshot of the headline.
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We're all supposed to be fluent in heterosexuality, regardless of our native tongue.
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But it turns out to be an invaluable testament to living through heterosexuality.
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They remain, as Karen Dubinsky puts it, "the greatest theme park of heterosexuality."
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But as sexologists pushed the categorization of homosexuality and heterosexuality, those homosocial spaces disappeared.
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Men are garbage and furthermore don't know how to dress; heterosexuality is a disease.
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Is it possible your heterosexuality is just a phase you may grow out of?
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Principal Jim Bartow said the decision was made to promote "gender equality" rather heterosexuality.
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Curiously though, LaFleur never defines "heterosexuality," relying instead on descriptions of the Buttigiegs's presentation.
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At this point, I'm wondering if heterosexuality is the cause of the Christmas Curse.
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But it has nothing to do with same sex marriage or the destruction of heterosexuality.
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And it's sort of about Meg trying to save her from the specter of heterosexuality.
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The more sex I had with women the more affirmation it was for my heterosexuality.
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Headlines like "Why Pete Buttigieg is bad for gays" and "Heterosexuality Without Women" became commonplace.
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That essay joins meditations on compulsive heterosexuality as among the most poignant in this collection.
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Guys who try to match with Simove are greeted with a brief message about Simove's heterosexuality.
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But back in 2011, press around J. Edgar was careful to note Hammer's heterosexuality — and masculinity.
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It's not beholden to binary principles in the same way we think of heterosexuality or homosexuality.
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While he may be decentered, heterosexuality is not: it is, in fact, what is at stake.
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In response, I tried to take corrective action, to reassure myself of my heterosexuality and masculinity.
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" "Access to 'heterosexual privilege,'" wrote Eisner, "... stops at the moment when their heterosexuality is 'proven otherwise.
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"In Holland, homosexuality is treated the same way as heterosexuality," he noted at one campaign event.
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Men who had a more fluid sense of their own heterosexuality thus had to suppress their desires.
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Ultimately, all weddings are for show: They're often flamboyant displays of — historically — heterosexuality, involving men and women.
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While Hannah is free to embrace her heterosexuality, queer women are forced to retreat from being themselves.
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This is when viewers realize just how heavily our conversations about virginity rest on heterosexuality and fear.
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On the other hand, everyone is at least in some relation to the social norm of heterosexuality.
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The way that guys bond and prove their heterosexuality is through bragging about control of women's bodies.
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Susan Wiseheart came out as a lesbian in 1973, after being "inundated by compulsory heterosexuality" until her thirties.
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My friends were implying that heterosexuality is male attraction to women—and I just don't make the cut.
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Far too many students face abstinence-only curricula that shame anything other than strict heterosexuality and gender conformity.
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The unwavering commitment to tradition has meant balls in Vienna have historically excluded anything that is not strict heterosexuality.
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Sexual identity would be irrelevant to skateboarding if skateboarding wasn't so thoroughly identified with macho toughness and male heterosexuality.
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Queer women love Practical Magic for its queer potential breaking through a sad reality: that heterosexuality is a curse.
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" Chu's penchant for hot takes is evidenced by a point she makes elsewhere in our conversation: "Heterosexuality is bad.
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The same culture that produced the Down Low and expectations for rigid heterosexuality among black men in the church.
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It claims on its website that heterosexuality, the nuclear family and Western civilization, among other institutions, are under attack.
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We need more asexual characters, but also more variety in stories that move away from heterosexuality being the baseline.
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He converts dozens of "gynanders"—Péladan's preferred term for lesbians—to heterosexuality after he magically generates replicas of himself.
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The gym is the perfect place to awaken my latent heterosexuality, because it's is packed with half-naked, sweaty men.
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Although heterosexuality is assumed to be a hard boundary, it is equally fluid, if not more so, than other identities.
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This can be both invalidating and offensive to LGBTQ people because it assumes heterosexuality as the standard state of being.
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Okay: In 1955 it published "The Crooked Man" by Charles Beaumont, a story about a dystopia where heterosexuality was taboo.
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The question that Huw and I end the first season with is: What route out of heterosexuality do we take?
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In this spirit I would like to consider frankly an aspect of the debate not adequately covered so far: heterosexuality.
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Many things about heterosexuality may not be ideal, but these are on the whole good people who deserve our support.
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Giving up on the promise of heterosexuality does make a sort of sense (if joining a murder cult doesn't quite).
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If you can't cook to save your life, then you might as well resign yourself to a life of heterosexuality.
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It is overlaid with and shaped by the equally structuring forces of racism, and capitalism, and ableism, and cis-heterosexuality.
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" And in "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence," from 1980, she offers an evergreen explanation of how "the destruction of records and memorabilia and letters documenting the realities of lesbian existence" serves as "a means of keeping heterosexuality compulsory for women, since what has been kept from our knowledge is joy, sensuality, courage and community.
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He even attended a now infamous sleep-away camp where other boys and men like him attempted to 'heal' into heterosexuality.
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The Buttigiegs's successful embrace of such tradition does not relegate them to some sphere of heterosexuality; it instead evinces this progress.
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The faith the Pences profess does, indeed, oppose equality for gay people and regard everything outside of heterosexuality aberrant and sinful.
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Not only does it make them feel like their heterosexuality is compromised, but look at slut-shaming: what makes a woman impure?
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For centuries, this show reminds us, "great art" has privileged the male view of the female body, establishing heterosexuality as the norm.
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Homophobia is often thought to be the bedfellow of masculinity and men who do not abide by the strict rules of heterosexuality.
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My modest early-20s partier window has long since passed, and I can't help but feel that I wasted it on heterosexuality.
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Traditionally, targets of the witch hunt didn't conform to strict norms associated with gender or heterosexuality, whereas Trump strongly adheres to both.
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Rather than a disingenuous, heterosexuality-preserving workaround, the notion of "just dudes being dudes" is, perhaps accidentally, the seed of male-male desire.
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On the other hand, there are still cultural norms that we've regrettably inherited from heterosexuality, one of which is the couple form itself.
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All of that is less a convincing case for her convoluted heterosexuality than for her culture's harsh assessment of the possibilities of lesbianism.
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Maria's curse, then, dooms her descendants to the pitfalls of heterosexuality even as it spares them from a lifetime of living with men.
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Sex here is still an act between a woman and a man, underscoring old ideas and not just of heterosexuality and "heteronormative" politics.
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Luckily, an archaeologist, Dr. Jenny Halsey (Annabelle Wallis), is on hand to explain what it's all about and also to affirm Nick's heterosexuality.
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Heteronormativity here means emphasizing the unspoken normality of heterosexuality, setting it as a baseline from which everything else is judged by its distance.
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Sedgewick was one of the first to advance that it was limiting to define sexuality in the binary opposition of heterosexuality and homosexuality.
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Heterosexuality is seen as neutral and harmless, while queerness of all varieties is considered obscene — and not just by people who are openly bigoted.
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What made Disco Demolition Night infamous was that it seemed to symbolise the rage of white, male heterosexuality against black, Latino and gay culture.
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They just hated anything that they thought was "aping heterosexuality," as they'd put it—butch and femme, fantasies that involved anything masculine, power play.
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The Angels viewed themselves and their aggressive behavior as so hyper-masculine that no behavior, no matter how homoerotic, could erase their inherent heterosexuality.
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Who better to embody compulsory heterosexuality than an officer of the law, and who better to represent a heightened risk factor for domestic violence?
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At the risk of sounding overly PC, however, her phrasing and eagerness to lump her heterosexuality into her national identity feels insensitive and tone-deaf.
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For decades, Kinsey's most radical conclusion has been ignored in the name of reinforcing strict categories of homosexuality, heterosexuality, and (when it's actually acknowledged) bisexuality.
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This particular focus stemmed from the fear, particularly among white southern evangelicals, of disturbing an old order based on white supremacy, heterosexuality, and female domesticity.
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Nicolosi found an eager audience for his claim that heterosexuality and traditional gender conformity were not only superior, but that deviations from them were pathological.
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Catering to the male gaze, professional female athletes were taught to portray a traditionally feminine exterior and to play up the perception of their heterosexuality.
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A 2013 study in the Journal of Communication and Sport noted that media portrayals of female athletes emphasized femininity and heterosexuality as opposed to athleticism.
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It makes me laugh now, to think of how disconnected I was from my feelings, how thoroughly I had conditioned my mind to imagine only heterosexuality.
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The Straight Pride event says it aims to celebrate heterosexuality in a city that's believed to have one of the largest LGBTQ communities in the nation.
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MK: Just as we want to interrogate whiteness, we want to interrogate heterosexuality and masculinity because they are the norm against which everybody else is measured.
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" Heteropessimism "generally has a heavy focus on men as the root of the problem," and its performances "are rarely accompanied by the actual abandonment of heterosexuality.
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By doing this, transitioning can be positioned as a form of "conversion therapy," whereby a lesbian is forced into a male identity and de facto heterosexuality.
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But while the women whom Diamond studied had corresponding changes in their sexual identity, almost all of these men fit their behavior into the framework of heterosexuality.
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She writes that she often felt like she "wasn't cut out for heterosexuality," but really she couldn't find anyone she liked more than she liked being alone.
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In just a few years, thanks in good measure to these galas, City Ballet audiences have become accustomed to same-sex pairings amid ballet's more institutionalized heterosexuality.
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Which I get, since we're not taught to have sexual identity outside of basic heterosexuality, and definitely not supposed to talk about how we want to bang.
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Jennifer Beals in The L Word: Generation Q. So how are we actually supposed to deal with the myriad pitfalls of heterosexuality without writing it off altogether?
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And any deviations from "normal" monogamous heterosexuality — often a husband lacking in devotion, or having affairs — inevitably become the cause for sensationalist mini-panics and media tut-tutting.
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For example, men who "liked" the cosmetics brand MAC were slightly more likely to be gay; one of the best indicators for heterosexuality was "liking" Wu-Tang Clan.
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Where the pop man's burden was to present thwarted desire through the lens of male heterosexuality, pop music today more often focuses on female empowerment and individual growth.
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For some conservative Americans, the court ruling represented something more sinister — an abdication of the government's duty to promote heterosexuality as a sexual norm fundamental to American society.
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She conflates their traditionalism—their masculinity, outfits, and sexual modesty—with heterosexuality itself, reflecting a surprising indifference to the fact that queer people were long denied these traditions.
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You can think of the model of compulsory heterosexuality, in which the only kind of sex that's permissible or the only sex one can contemplate is straight sex.
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Spike Jonze's projection of our intensified personal relationships with virtual assistants assumes that gender, heterosexuality, and feminized affective labour will continue to exist even beyond human and corporeal relationships.
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More than witchcraft, what makes the Owens women different from the other townswomen is that Owens heterosexuality has an escape clause—which is perhaps why the townswomen envy them.
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But, as the response to the book has shown, there can be no homosexuals in a reality-obliterating Arab world, where "real" manhood is defined by a chauvinist heterosexuality.
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"Being a woman, I only really have access to the equipment, what, 30, 45 minutes a week?" she says, discussing her efforts to convert a gay man to heterosexuality.
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At its core was a desire to root out the cause of sexual orientation and then through various means, including hypnosis and electric shock treatment, steer the patient toward heterosexuality.
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Rather, I mention it as a reminder to myself, and to you, of an unfortunate yet undeniable fact: Heterosexuality is an overwhelmingly common trait for our so-called gay icons.
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This means I've never had The Haircut so many other queer women have where, I'm told, it feels like you're freeing yourself from the shackles of enforced femininity and heterosexuality.
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I know it's just for content, but I can't help but feel like an accidental competition winner who is—on a side note—also venturing into both polyamory and heterosexuality.
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How long have we been subjected to that subjective phrase, championed by Republicans who equated it with heterosexuality, fecundity and Christian piety — and who appointed themselves the custodians of those?
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At its core was a desire to root out the cause of sexual orientation and then through various means, including hypnosis and electric shock treatment, steer the patient towards heterosexuality.
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And throwing hot people together inevitably results in some onboard romances, which are a big source of the drama, as the show chronicles what happens when heterosexuality takes to sea.
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" They reference Adrienne Rich's work on compulsory heterosexuality to point out that "womanhood is often imagined as something that follows from men, rather than existing apart from or alongside them.
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The guitar and her cracking vocals take the whole notion of a woman's place in the world, not to mention this normalized ideal of heterosexuality, and flip them on their head.
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It doesn't diminish the memory of the game but it helps me answer questions as to why I reacted certain ways with my girl friends or never challenged heterosexuality until college.
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He's not a bad man; if anything, he's a victim as much as any of the teenagers he's responsible for, doomed to perform heterosexuality under a thin veneer of forced happiness.
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The story operates entirely within the confines of heterosexuality, and ends with the two women forming a nuclear family of their own just like their parents and their parents before them!
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" The LGBTQIA Resource Center at UC Davis defines heterosexuality as a "sexual orientation in which a person feels physically and emotionally attracted to people of a gender other than their own.
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This film is off the charts when it come to "Biblical heterosexuality, or else punishment": Not content to torment the unfaithful, this Krampus goes after the recently divorced and their offspring.
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In many African countries, societies were built differently, nuclear families were not the normal constellation in which children were raised, gender was not binary, cisgenderism and heterosexuality were not the norm.
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The actor told told Hollywood Life last week that he is "fighting... pretty heavily" to write Jughead as asexual in the future of the show, despite his apparent heterosexuality in season 1.
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Queerness, unlike heterosexuality or whiteness or being able-bodied, is not a neutral state, and as such seems to command some contextualizing energy in order to justify its presence within narrative spaces.
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As I wrote then, I'm used to seeing shows tease a flirtation between two characters of the same sex only to have them veer right back into the familiar embrace of heterosexuality.
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This shift was influenced by the rise of feminism and LGBT rights, which made the cultural ideal found in Playboy seem quaint in its unquestioning acceptance of heterosexuality and traditional gender norms.
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It's a balancing act between recognizing the abuses and struggles a public figure like Swift experiences and not ignoring people who don't have the privileges of whiteness or heterosexuality or non-disability.
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The 23-year-old star's ousting came after he outlawed heterosexuality in the unincorporated community of 72 people — a move the openly gay Daniel said he modeled after President Donald Trump's Muslim ban.
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This photo, currently on display at The Photographers' Gallery in the exhibition Feminist Avant-Garde of the 21s, is an ironic imitation of the presumed masculinity and heterosexuality of the abstract expressionist gesture.
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When we learn about sexual pleasure via mainstream pornography, we're taught that sexual pleasure is wordless-yet-seamless, limited to heterosexuality, penetration and scenes like pizza deliveries, locker rooms and high rise offices.
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As a homosexual woman living in a time and place where heterosexuality is seen as the norm, "Hively represents the ultimate case of failure to conform to the female stereotype," the opinion reads.
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The emphasis on heterosexuality and gender conventionality continued in books like 1969's Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) and 1972's The Joy of Sex.
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Jason, a portrait of mildly grungy lower-middle-class heterosexuality, told me something right away that I hadn't grasped when setting up the meeting: The park's restroom was one of his favorite cruising spots.
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In July 2018, the Indian Psychiatric Society (IPS) declared homosexuality was not an illness, partially in hopes of deterring psychiatrists from use of "conversion therapies" on LGBT+ patients aimed at "converting" them to heterosexuality.
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The survey polled over 1,000 people between the ages of 13 and 26 in the U.S. and UK, and found that 57% said that they did not fit into the traditional definition of heterosexuality.
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With big eyes and high cheekbones, Hannah's androgynous beauty attracted the attention of the city's prominent women and gay men, who didn't let his resolute heterosexuality get in the way of their relentless pursuit.
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We need to accept that trans women are real women, that liking them doesn't make us gay, and we also need to end social messaging that idealizes heterosexuality, telling men to be straight— or else.
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Elise, a student in the class, took a photo of her professor's list of questions and tweeted it: The questions, which her professor put in a Powerpoint slide, read: — What do you think caused your heterosexuality?
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In particular, scholar Michel Foucault viewed the rise of identity markers as "a way for science to be like, 'heterosexuality is right,' and we're gonna label all these other sexual identities as well, as deviant sexualities."
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Roman masculinity was a lot like the worst version of present-day toxic masculinity, with the act of penetration itself standing in for today's aggressive performance of heterosexuality: A Roman man penetrated others regardless of gender.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - England's schools could for the first time treat LGBT life the same as heterosexuality in a radical shift that campaigners say would transform the lives of children struggling with their sexuality or gender.
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However, if things continue to spiral toward heterosexuality in season three, or if fans consistently feel shafted, used, or baited by the show, a zealous backlash from the LGBTQ community wouldn't be surprising given this latest outpouring.
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Some have claimed that city social workers occasionally (and unofficially) refer youth to therapists who practice gay conversion therapy, which attempts to convert people to heterosexuality through shame-driven tactics that can leave patients deeply psychologically damaged.
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Commercial imagery featuring LGBTQ people often strives to uphold traditional narratives around gender and heterosexuality by emphasizing how "normal" we can be, going back to the earliest TV ads featuring gay men and lesbians in the '90s.
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This is so often how we present heterosexuality: men as sexual bloodhounds always sniffing out another lay (no matter how old they are, no matter whether they're in their place of employment), women as objects of desire.
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The idea was popularized by American activist Tony Porter and outlines stereotypical expectations of male behavior, such as heterosexuality, not expressing weakness or fear, being tough and aggressive, not asking for help, and viewing women as objects.
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Gay families may be forced through exposure to straight families in the schoolyard to explain sexual intercourse at a time before any of them feel ready, especially as some parents flaunt their heterosexuality for all to see.
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Because she didn't identify as male anymore, she suggested, she could "conceive of women as possible romantic or sexual interests" without having to stomach her "disgust at male heterosexuality" or having to view herself as complicit in it.
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This is still a show about a man whose heterosexuality gets so twisted that he puts on his mother's clothes and kills women when he's attracted to them, and there's only so much room to maneuver within that.
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It's disappointing that these workers fail to realize is that heterosexuality and cisgender are just as much orientations and gender identities as any other, but this attitude is also damaging to the work lives of their LGBTQ colleagues.
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Other attempts to convert LGBT people to heterosexuality throughout history have included methods like lobotomy, electroshock to the hands, head, and genitals, testicle transplants from dead straight men, "bladder washing," castration, female circumcision, nausea-inducing drugs, and beatings.
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In 1932, Helene Deutsch published her study "On Female Homosexuality," which recounted Deutsch's attempts to instill heterosexuality in a lesbian, only to find that her patient had begun a relationship with another woman while the study was ongoing.
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In comments that baffled much of the women's basketball world, Wiggins claimed she was forced into early retirement due to a lack of fan support and hostility toward her within the league that she attributed to her heterosexuality.
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Throughout history, different societies in divergent cultural periods have explored gender and sexuality in ways that deviate from the standardized idea of male and female as sole gender roles and heterosexuality as the only acceptable form of sexual behavior.
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The term comes from adding the prefix "pan," which means all, to sexuality, suggesting that people who identify as pansexual are not restricted in their sexuality to those of the opposite gender (heterosexuality) or to the same gender (homosexuality).
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So, as a way to counter that, and prove their masculinity, at a time in which heterosexuality was becoming a characteristic of masculinity itself, many fraternities changed their recruitment practices to recruit men who were good at seducing women.
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And yet, Greta LaFleur, a Yale professor of American Studies who also directs the university's graduate program in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, recently penned a Los Angeles Review of Books essay titled "Heterosexuality Without Women" deriding the couple.
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Platforms that show something different and real—something that centers bodies and experiences outside the model pool of youth, thinness, and heterosexuality, ideals that production studios and porn monoliths have coveted for so long—will only increase in demand.
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But still, it turns out that the pressures from a minority subgroup to be sufficiently "queer" (whatever that really means) didn't hold nearly so much sway over my choices as the enormous and practically incalculable pressures of compulsory heterosexuality.
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The same unstable heterosexuality is found across communities, although similar phenomena in communities of color — such as black men who have sex on the "down low," which, public health research stigmatizingly suggests, exacerbated the AIDS crisis — are taken less seriously.
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While bisexual women are often stereotyped as sleeping with women for male attention, or just going through a phase en route to permanent heterosexuality, the opposite is presumed of bisexual men: that they are simply confused or semi-closeted gay men.
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Cunanan does not always deny that he sleeps with men ("I tell people what they want to hear," he informs a friend), but he is clearly troubled by the dominance of heterosexuality and the shame of his own sexual subversions.
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"I think trying to find a connection of any kind between sexuality and genetics is absurd and rooted in the thinking that any sexuality outside of heterosexuality is 'abnormal,'" Kristin Russo, cofounder of LGBTQ+ advice site Everyone Is Gay says.
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By allowing students, as Bryant says, to engage with others in an environment where heterosexuality is not a prerequisite for human interaction, students may be afforded the space to develop broader understandings of human sexuality and interpersonal relationships that supersede heteronormativity.
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We now know that many boys who descend on their schools with guns are motivated by fears that they are perceived as homosexual and that attacking suspected or known homosexuals is a way for boys to demonstrate heterosexuality to their peers.
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The book proposes to advise a young reader how to navigate the political and practical problems of female heterosexuality, but ends up eviscerating Roberson's own difficult romantic experiences and celebrating the sense of self she has won while on that journey.
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Sprouting from the radical feminist movement within the 1970s second wave, political lesbianism is related to lesbian separatism, and promotes the idea that a woman can break from heterosexuality and simply refuse to incorporate sex with men into their lives.
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It's really important not to get too pulled into the view that men have always hated women there will always be this war of the sexes that, best case scenario, gets temporarily resolved in the depressing truce of conventional heterosexuality.
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The dark side of her continual remaking was the harshness with which she would disavow herself, and others by proxy: trying as a young woman to fellate her way into heterosexuality and—as an older writer—vehemently disowning her earlier work.
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These jazz-age aristocrats were designated "bright young things" by the media, and the fact that they transgressed the strict bounds of heterosexuality was, due to their wealth and connections, considered if not entirely permissible, a charming function of youth.
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Murphy might have famously said that Murder House was about "a marriage," but it was really about the idea of marriage and heterosexuality that pop culture feeds to us, filtered first through horror films and then through Murphy's unique sensibility.
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Sedgwick argues that men, desperate to prove their heterosexuality but trapped in a culture that does not allow them to engage emotionally or authentically with one another, use women as "conduits": safe outlets for them to express their desire for one another.
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The woman, who aspirationally dubbed herself "Radical," wrote in to ask how she could meet more bi men and bi-curious gays so that she might sidestep heterosexuality while still fucking men, fulfilling her thoroughly straight desire in the gayest way possible.
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"The wedding dress is about our inappropriate social priorities," said Dr. Chrys Ingraham, a professor and coordinator of sociology at the State University of New York at Purchase, in Harrison N.Y., and the author of "White Weddings: Romancing Heterosexuality in Popular Culture" (Routledge).
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But her application of it seems contradictory, especially when she assumes "heterosexuality" is bad, and, earlier in our conversation, Chu observed, "Queerness is used in certain academic circles as a master term for subversion or resistance"—pretty much a leftist moral currency.
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"If you go back in time to the genesis of sexual categories, all of the sexologists are really concerned that heterosexuality is fragile, that it needs to be promoted and kept safe and made to happen, because otherwise it won't [be]," said Hugh Ryan.
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When the season starts, the great shock of Robert and Sol's long-term secret relationship has been replaced by a host of other concerns: Robert's health, Sol's one-off relapse into heterosexuality, Brianna and Frankie's blooming business relationship, and Grace and Frankie's romantic futures.
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The Nashville Statement, released by the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood on Tuesday, says that only heterosexuality is permissible, calls people born with intersex conditions "disordered," derides transgender identities as "transgenderism" and makes clear that anyone who is an L.G.B.T. person is immoral.
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Steeped as I was in a world insisting on heterosexuality as the norm — even when it made me, my now-divorced parents, and most of my friends profoundly unhappy — I hadn't previously realized (or dared to believe) that lesbianism was an option for me.
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It doesn't bode well that the movie initially seems more interested in Fred than in Charlotte, an apparent imbalance that suggests this will be another weak chuckle-fest in which the female lead is a convenience or decoration, on hand mainly to vouch for her guy's heterosexuality.
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The relationships in Sirens, Shadowhunters, and BoJack Horseman are all incredible stories on their own, but when these are the most prominent examples of asexuality in media, it creates a false and damaging narrative that asexuality is heterosexuality-lite, instead of being a completely separate experience.
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In the years before same-sex marriage was legalized, some gay men and women considered weddings to be the ultimate celebration of heterosexuality itself, leading them to feel awkward, and sometimes unwelcome, when invited to a straight couple's nuptials, argued Bob Morris, a longtime Styles contributor.
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Of course, just because I learned that masturbating was okay doesn't mean I was free from any further sexual guilt — even as an adult, I would face slut-shaming, judgment about my thoughts on monogamy and heterosexuality, and a sense that I should be feeling bad about feeling good.
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" Though there are verses in the Qur'an that acknowledge sexualities other than heterosexuality—MPV employs them in its work—Aslan said such arguments require the belief that scripture is "living and breathing, reinterpreted every generation" and not an ahistorical document "without context, fixed in place for all time.
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This "internalized homophobia," or the mental distress that L.G.B.T. endure as a result of an involuntary belief that heterosexuality is the "normal way to be" perpetuates stereotypes, violence and negative sentiment toward the L.G.B.T. community from both gay and straight people, and has detrimental effects on mental health.
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Still, in presenting so many different types of people as desirable on their terms, the show's perspective represents a challenge — not just to the way gender-conforming heterosexuality is normalized in most cultural representations, but also to some of the rampant racial and gendered prejudices of gay hookup app culture.
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I've written angry letters to the editor when news outlets call rape charges a "sex scandal" (rape isn't sex) and blocked countless mouth breathers on Twitter who accuse me of outlawing male heterosexuality (if your masculinity depends on being able to violate my body, it's time to get a new one).
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This year, a trove of both fiction and nonfiction books, like Taffy Brodesser-Akner's novel Fleishman Is in Trouble, about a marriage on the brink, and Lisa Taddeo's Three Women, a report on the sad state of straight romance, explored the rocky terrain of heterosexuality at the end of the 83s.
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Imperial Britain imposed policies to enforce heterosexuality and the gender binary, while simultaneously constructing the racial "other" as not only fundamentally different, but freighted with sexual menace; from there, it's not a big leap to see sexual menace in any sort of "other," and "biological realities" as essential and immutable.
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As evidence that there is still a cultural resistance to using same-sex pronouns in pop music, consider, for instance, the embarrassingly popular practice by which artists "gender-flip" the pronouns in their cover songs to, I guess, preserve their heterosexuality, the way Ryan Adams did on his album-length 1989 cover.
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He also argued extensively for a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage, saying in the conservative religious journal First Things in 2004: By equating heterosexuality and homosexuality, by removing the last vestiges of moral stigma from same-sex couplings, such marriages will lead to an increase in the number of homosexuals.
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We must be fearless in our struggle and our support for those who have been traumatized and victimized, and we must tackle the much bigger problem of the violence inherent in what gets called heterosexuality, but one in which the hetero, the other, of the woman is completely rejected as an equal human being.
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" But Derek Hawkins at the Washington Post provides an anecdote that shows one of Hefner's more progressive views: In 1955, Playboy ran a short story, "The Crooked Man" by Charles Beaumont, that "depicted a dystopian future where homosexuality was the norm, heterosexuality was outlawed and angry anti-straight mobs marched through the street chanting 'make our city clean again!
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But here is the secret, 30 years after Top Gun first buzzed the tower: The most important scene in the film is not the immortal "need for speed" double high-five, or Tom Cruise frenching his way to heterosexuality in blue silhouette to "Take My Breath Away," or even Iceman ambiguously inviting Maverick to be his wingman any time.
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As a boy trying to be seen for his academic talents in a world that expects little more than anger from black boys, as a boy trying to understand his sexuality in a world that sees black men as symbols of hyper-heterosexuality, Moore is constantly forced to choose between safety and identity — often with dangerous consequences either way.
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Sometimes I wonder if I hadn't joined a rugby team my sophomore year and befriended, then later dated, the proudly out queer people I met through the sport, I might have just continued to be shunted along on the conveyor belt of heterosexuality toward my capitalism-approved future as a husband's wife and the mother of his children.
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Him especially.) But the other, more significant reason this scene has whipped the internet into a frenzy is because Marriage Story's release came at the close of another year — another decade — in which mainstream American culture has attempted to wrestle with the dilemma of (white, middle class) heterosexuality and the question of whether it might be an ultimately doomed project.
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In three decades of research, Niobe Way, a professor of developmental psychology at New York University, has observed a striking pattern of behavior among American boys: in early adolescence, they are openly affectionate with one another, speaking freely of love and lifelong bonds; by late adolescence, as they become cultured to project an image of masculinity, heterosexuality and stoicism, they start to distance themselves from their same-sex friends.
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Hell's Angels viewed their freedom to kiss as an assertion of masculinity and the ultimate proof of their confidence in their heterosexuality: "The performative kissing of the 1960 Hell's Angels marks an important moment in straight white male homosexuality, one in which homosexual contact is presented to the public as an expression of such extraordinary hetero-masculine rebelliousness that it defies categorization as gay," Jane Ward writes in her book Not Gay: Sex Between Straight White Men.
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