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“Heteronormativity is more than ideology, or prejudice, or phobia against gays and lesbians; it is produced in almost every aspect of the forms and arrangements of social life: nationality, the state, and the law; commerce; medicine; and education; as well as in the conventions and affects of narrativity, romance, and other protected spaces of culture… . We are describing a constellation of practices that everywhere disperses heterosexual privilege as a tacit but central organizing index of social membership.”

— Lauren Berlant and Michael Warner, “Sex in Public”