metronormative

English

Etymology

From metro- +‎ normative.

Adjective

metronormative (comparative more metronormative, superlative most metronormative)

1. (LGBTQ) Of or pertaining to the ideals and narratives that assert that all Queer people live more prosperous lives in urban cities over rural places.
   • 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."

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

     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.

   • In plain sight an exploration of gay rights, LGBTQ women, and rural place:

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

Derived terms

• metronormativity