metronormativity

plural metronormativities

1. countableuncountableThe assumption that urban cities are preferential homes for all queer people over rural spaces.

   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

   The efficient way to tell this story is to consider metronormativity as its overall strategy, i.e. a dominant discourse, that puts urban dwelling gays and lesbians versus their rural counterparts in political orientation.

   2014, Sean Wang, Encountering Metronormativity: Geographies of Queer Visibility in Central New York, Wagadu, pages 91-124