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metronormative

adjective

Of or pertaining to the ideals and narratives that assert that all queer people live more prosperous lives in urban cities over rural places.

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Meanings

adjectivemetronormative (comparative more metronormative, superlative most metronormative)

comparative more metronormative · superlative most metronormative

Of or pertaining to the ideals and narratives that assert that all queer people live more prosperous lives in urban cities over rural places.
Metronormative thinking links welcoming, safe, and liberated with the city and dangerous, homophobic, and closeted with the rural.
In plain sight an exploration of gay rights, LGBTQ women, and rural place
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Metronormative narratives treat rural regions as a spatial closet out of which LGBTQ+ people must emerge by moving to the city and realizing “the full expression of the sexual self."
2020, Maxwell Cloe, Metronormativity
Metronormative narratives treat rural regions as a spatial closet out of which LGBTQ+ people must emerge by moving to the city and realizing “the full expression of the sexual self."
2020, Maxwell Cloe, Metronormativity
Metronormative thinking links welcoming, safe, and liberated with the city and dangerous, homophobic, and closeted with the rural.
In plain sight an exploration of gay rights, LGBTQ women, and rural place

Origin

From metro- + normative.

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APA

metronormative. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/metronormative

MLA

“metronormative.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/metronormative. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “metronormative,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/metronormative.

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