WMST 1000Y Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Neoliberalism, Heteronormativity, Dyke March

• School: Trent University
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: WMST 1000Y
• Professor: Funke A

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Queer: non-normative, especially in terms of gender and sexuality. Why would we want a queer world: liberates lgbtq people from marginalization, disenfranchisement, oppression, and. Violence: challenges the normative frameworks that determine personal, social, and political. Assimilationist: rights and recognition based approach, homosexuals are just like heterosexuals , advocate for the right to participate in existing institutions, such as marriage, the military, anti-discrimination policies and laws, rights to housing and healthcare, and social/sexual morality. Bathhouse raids: bath house is an institution where men go to have sex with men. Europe, and the attending employment benefits that would accompany recognizing same- sex relationships, was a fight that would benefit mostly white, able-bodied, middle class, urban gays and lesbians. Pride, assimilationism, and liberationist: pride began as a parade protest to homophobia and heterosexism. In the seventies, most cities called these parades gay liberation marches, gay.