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compulsory heterosexuality

Noun

Meaning

compulsory heterosexuality (uncountable)

(LGBT, feminism) The idea that heterosexuality is often assumed and forced upon individuals regardless of their own sexual orientation by a patriarchal and heteronormative society.

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Examples

We can not live as disposable people. The broader community, which has firmly established compulsory heterosexuality as the law of the universe, has to get over its problem with us. Jeffrey Montgomery

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