straight supremacy
English
Etymology
By analogy with white supremacy.
Noun
straight supremacy (uncountable)
- An ideology that holds that straight sexual orientation is superior to all others.
- the notion that straight supremacy is perhaps a clearer term that homophobia because many straight people do not hate or fear gay people (as the word roots of homo- + -phobia might connote) but nonetheless consider straight orientation to be superior somehow (morally, culturally, or otherwise)
- A situation in which straight people are privileged over other people in society.
Synonyms
- hetero-supremacy
- heterosupremacy
See also
- cisnormative
- cisnormativity
- heteronormative
- heteronormativity
- homophobia