Heteronormativity Hurts in the Classroom. Once, while at an educational event, I spoke on a panel with an elementary-school teacher who had two decades’ worth of experience.

Heteronormativity, a largely outdated but still deeply rooted concept, imposes a one-way sexuality that is purely reproductive and deeply restrictive. It shapes expectations, marginalizes ...

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Heteronormativity is both a form of and fuels things like homophobia, transphobia and gender identity-based discrimination. Sometimes heteronormativity as seen in the law, ...

Editor's note: The following column first appeared in City Journal. San Diego public schools want to overthrow "heteronormativity" and promote "genderqueer," "non-binary," "pansexual," and "two ...

I knew Georgetown University from the start was not established for students like me: a person of color, female and queer. After all, it wasn’t until 1969 that the university was fully coed. The ...

Heteronormativity is pervasive in contemporary societies and is easily visible in social norms about gender relations, gender roles, sexual attraction and kinship and family.

The idea of queer tango may seem odd to those familiar with the traditional heteronormativity of the dance form, but it has become a bona fide movement, with dancers from Buenos Aires to Berlin. Queer ...

Whether or not you’ve heard the term “queer theory,” it’s likely to have impacted some aspect of your life. Click through to learn what queer theory is, how it's used, and who has been ...

Seattle Seattle school district teaches young kids how 'people get pregnant,' trades ‘male’ for ‘person with sperm’ Seattle sex ed curriculum tries to dismantle 'heteronormativity,' 'toxic ...