Metronormativity

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The assumption that urban cities are preferential homes for all Queer people over rural spaces. countable, uncountable

    "Metronormative thinking links welcoming, safe, and liberated with the city and dangerous, homophobic, and closeted with the rural."

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"Metronormative thinking links welcoming, safe, and liberated with the city and dangerous, homophobic, and closeted with the rural."

Etymology

From metro- + normativity.

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