metronormativity

English

Etymology

metro- +‎ normativity

Noun

metronormativity (countable and uncountable, plural metronormativities)

1. (LGBT) The assumption that urban cities are preferential homes for all Queer people over rural spaces.
   • 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.

   • 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.

Related terms

• metronormative