Hegemony and Heteronormativity

Homonormative Discourses of LGBTQ Activists About Lesbian and Gay Parenting

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3621458
AutoresDiego Lasio (0000-0002-8851-4617, University of Cagliari, autor correspondente), Francesco Serri (0000-0002-9412-3989, University of Cagliari), Isabella Ibba (University of Cagliari), João Manuel De Oliveira (0000-0002-2793-2946, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), Centro de Investigação e Intervenção Social, Lisboa, Portugal)
Ano2019
Volume66
Fascículo8
Páginas1058-1081
Data de publicação2019-07-03
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Homosexuality (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0091-8369 • E-ISSN: 1540-3602
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00918369.2018.1493252
PMID30052152
OpenAlexW2883163205
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas12
Referências citadas55

LGBTQ activists have a crucial role in fighting sexuality-based discrimination. However, homonormativity can lead activists to adhere to hegemonic heteronormativity, thus threatening their efforts to widen the concept of family. Drawing on the Gramscian notion of hegemony, this article analyzes the notion of heteronormativity and its homonormative facet as a form of hegemony that impacts activists, sustaining the premises of heteronormativity and seeking inclusion within such norms. This research investigates the hegemonic heteronormative assumptions that endure in the discourses of Italian LGBTQ activists when they talk about lesbian and gay parenting. Findings highlight the presence of heteronormative traces in their discourses, namely in terms of access to reproduction, the parents' place within the regime of gender, and the right standards for child rearing. Hegemonic heteronormativity appears in multiform ways, and as largely consensual even to those it more directly oppresses, making it difficult to detect and therefore to deconstruct

Heteronormativity · Sexual identity · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Gender Politics and Representation · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy