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Heterosexism
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Heterosexism
The belief that heterosexual activities and institutions are better than those with a genderless or homosexual orientation
heterosexism
Psychology The belief that heterosexual activities and institutions are better than those with a genderless or homosexual orientation. See Homophobia.
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But underneath the patina of Luscher's veneration of masculine ideality--"authentic manhood"--and equivocation--"measure of control"--lie the story's governing rhetoric of patriarchal black masculinity founded on heterocentrism and an attendant blight, homophobia.
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