Heteronormativity

Within interpersonal and family communication, researchers have tended to construct and describe LGBTQ relationships in regards to a heterosexual norm. A review of recent research reveals the conceptual limitations of this framework, “outing” heteronormativity’s influence on our understandings of non-heterosexual relationships. The author outlines the challenges of “queering” interpersonal and family communication research and argues that feminist theory can contribute to this process by (1) revealing the heteronormative assumptions perpetuated by dyadic models of communication, (2) challenging the public/private bifurcation, (3) complicating notions of identity, and (4) emphasizing intersectionality. The article concludes by discussing the implications a feminist queer perspective holds for interpersonal and family communication pedagogies and research.

Der Artikel analysiert diskursive Strategien in aktuellen deutschen Elternzeitschriften. Es wird beobachtet, dass "Mutterschaft" zugleich mit konservativen Geschlechterrollen verbunden ist und in einen individualistischen postfeministischen Diskurs eingebettet ist. Es wird gezeigt, wie die analysierten Texte konservative Modelle von Mutterschaft und Geschlecht, insbesondere in Bezug auf die Mutter-Kind-Beziehung, die Frage der "Kompatibilität" von unbezahlter und bezahlter Arbeit und geschlechtsspezifischen Elternstellungen, in eine modern scheinende Rhetorik einkleiden. Durch die diskursiven Strategien und Allianzen werden die politischen und strukturellen Dimensionen von Care-Arbeit, Geschlechtergerechtigkeit und intersektionalen Aspekten durch den individualistischen Diskurs verdeckt. Diese Entpolitisierung wird ans Licht gebracht und damit Raum für neue feministische Perspektiven der Mutterschaft geschaffen.

Coautoria: Cristiane Terra e Vitor Lages.
Nunca se falou tanto sobre inclusão LGBT e compliance em proteção de dados. Porém, há um longo caminho para a transformação cultural que possibilite sua efetiva inclusão nas empresas, especialmente em conformidade com a Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados (LGPD).
Diante da realidade social cada vez mais complexa em que os dados pessoais, inclusive de identidade de gênero e orientação sexual, são tratados e compartilhados de formas ilícitas e abusivas, é necessário adequar os processos de inclusão à proteção de dados, pois, caso sejam usados indevidamente, pode-se agravar vulnerabilidades e discriminações e causar impactos aos titulares de dados.
Com o objetivo de contribuir para a mudança da cultura cisheteronormativa e ainda incipiente quanto à proteção de dados, apresentamos nesta obra uma base teórica, empírica e prática sobre os dois temas. Na primeira parte, tratamos da inclusão LGBT nas empresas do ponto de vista constitucional, social e econômico, e propomos diversas ações inclusivas. Na segunda, abordamos a adequação da inclusão com a LGPD, com enfoque jurídico-doutrinário.
Afinal, promover inclusão LGBT e proteção de dados são caminhos necessários, vantajosos e associados. Dessa forma, além das sugestões de ações de inclusão, propomos diversas medidas de conformidade para que as empresas adequem a inclusão LGBT à Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados. Adicionalmente, sugerimos ao Poder Público diversas políticas voltadas à empregabilidade LGBT, que fariam enorme diferença.
Prefácios de duas referências sobre os temas: Daniela Andrade e Maria Cecília Gomes.

À venda em formatos físico (no site da editora Dialética https://loja.editoradialetica.com/humanidades/protecao-de-dados-pessoais-inclusao-lgbt-teoria-e-pratica ) e em E-book (pela Amazon e outras lojas virtuais https://www.amazon.com.br/Prote%C3%A7%C3%A3o-dados-pessoais-inclus%C3%A3o-LGBT-ebook/dp/B09HXZSFKV/ref=sr_1_1?__mk_pt_BR=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&crid=3F3ROFKUZHMTX&keywords=inclus%C3%A3o+lgbt&qid=1641960482&s=digital-text&sprefix=inclus%C3%A3o+lgb%2Cdigital-text%2C186&sr=1-1 )

Resumo: O presente ensaio faz um exercício de reflexão sobre a construção das identidades e diferenças, problematizando como o eu se constrói a partir de um outro e o que ocorre quando no processo de formação do sujeito há um desejo não de reconhecimento, mas de eliminação do outro. Em seguida, apresenta brevemente as noções de estigma, anormalidade e abjeção como forma de compreender os processos de negação e não reconhecimento de sujeitos, bem como aborda a luta por reconhecimento empreendida por sujeitos historicamente construídos como outros. Por fim, é feita uma reflexão sobre as políticas de eliminação do outro, trazendo o conceito de necrobiopoder para argumentar que o Estado e a sociedade põem em ação técnicas de fazer viver, fazer morrer e fazer matar a própria população, sendo essas duas últimas, em especial, direcionadas a sujeitos tidos como subalternos, abjetos, estigmatizados, monstros e anormais. Os debates suscitados apontam para a necessidade de questionar sobre qual o lugar que a diferença e o(s) outro(s) ocupam nas relações sociais e o que conta ou pode contar como humano em nossa sociedade. Palavras-chave: Identidade. Diferença. Reconhecimento. Necrobiopoder. Abjeção.

Polyamory. Loving More than One A biographical portrait of non-monogamous relationship cultures In the mainstream of academic Psychology, the concept of the monogamous relationship between two people is rarely called into question. The work at hand will fill a gap in this respect and should be understood as a contribution toward establishing academic openness to the concerns of polyamorous human beings. Interviews were conducted over Skype as the method of compiling data and their phenomenological premises as well as those of interaction and communication theories were reconstructed according to the narrative data analysis of Schutze (1983). The biographies of one woman and one man stand in the forefront. It holds true for both interview partners that they oriented themselves toward a monogamous relationship model and processed the same during biographically significant phases of their early adulthoods. In both cases – more noticeably in the man’s than the woman’s – the biographical...

Donald Trump slash fic is a sobering example in the survey of American politics and fan work. From Archive Of Our Own’s “Donald Trump – Fandom” to inclusion as op-eds in the New York Times, these visceral and contemporary works comprise an anti-fandom that uses the rhetoric of fan culture to stake its claims against him. Many of these claims center and transform his heteromasculinity, particularly using humiliation to depower him—as a queer (not-straight) thing (non-man), adopting the more institutional US political practice of using heteronormativity as a measure of patriotism and worthiness of human rights that has become more overt in the post-9/11 era. While depictions of the “tangerine flesh” “misshapen body” do not complete the xenophobic mold of the “monster terrorist fag,” these fic complicate preceding claims of slashing queerness and queering gendered spaces and affirm the view of a reflective relationship of fan work and cultural narratives. From the mainstream to the subcultural level, fan-citizens are creating narratives of resisting Trump while throwing into question the possibilities of fan practices in queering either national sexual politics  or sexual politics among the refuge of fans.

Med afsæt i hovedpersonen fra tredje sæson, Isak, ser artiklen nærmere på homoseksualitet og maskulinitet. I artiklen introduceres og anvendes centrale queer teoretiske begreber som ’homosocialitet’ og ’heteronormtivitet’. Der vises hvordan fællesskaberne i serien er bygget op omkring stærke homosociale bånd funderet i en heteronormativ antaget fælles tiltrækning af og orientering imod ’det modsatte køn’. Der argumenteres for, at Isak vægrer sig ved at springe ud som homoseksuel fordi dette potentielt afmaskuliniserer ham og udgrænser ham fra det maskuline homosociale fællesskab. Hovedpersonen i tredje sæson, Isaks, (homo)seksualitet fungerer som et plotdrive, der holder seeren fanget i spænding og indlevelse, og samtidig tilbyder serien også på opdragende vis seeren et indblik i hverdagsheteronormativiteten in-og eksklusionsmekanismer.

El presente trabajo es parte de mi tesis de maestría en Educación Física en la Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brasil, en la que me propongo indagar sobre los juegos infantiles desde una perspectiva de género y diversidad sexual. El trabajo de investigación fue realizado en un barrio de la ciudad de Montevideo, capital de Uruguay. Entreviste a personas adultas sobre qué percepciones tienen y a qué juegos juegan con niñas-os menores de 10 años de edad. El trabajo se propone preguntar si los juegos infantiles no reproducen patrones de desigualdad de género, así como heteronormativos.

The aim of this minireview is to analyse the existing Czech research in the field of Queer Linguistics with the use of the meta-linguistic perspective. After a short introduction of Queer Theory ideas and ideas of Queer Linguistics focusing on the terms queer and heteronormativity, the author deals with the Czech denomination of this field. Against the backdrop of the state of Czech Gender Linguistics, additional circumstances of the current state of Czech Queer Linguistics are presented. Those include (apart from the unavailability of relevant literature in Czech libraries) a limited number of experts dealing with the topic, offering queer-linguistic lectures and seminars at Czech universities. In the next part of the article, the existing publications dealing with various topics from the field of Czech Queer Linguistics are analysed. In the final part of the article, some topics which may extend the publication basis of the field are outlined as they also may help to reflect the current social topics in the Czech Republic.

The process of informed consent is fundamental to basic scientific research with human subjects. As one aspect of the scientific enterprise, clinical drug trials rely on informed consent documents to safeguard the ethical treatment of trial participants. This paper explores the role of heteronormative assumptions within this process, postulating the ways in which the biomedical texts that make up the informed consent process may render gay, lesbian, and non-binary gender-identifying participants discursively invisible. We argue that trial criteria and informed consent practices may reproduce a binary sex and gender system in which ‘male’ and ‘female’ subjects are presumed to identify as heterosexual and engage in procreative sex. This binary is not one of equivalence as female subjects who are able to have children may be wholly excluded or excessively controlled in studies while male subjects are merely admonished to use medically sanctioned birth control methods. Furthermore, we claim that the assumption of procreative heterosexual behaviors may pervade the informed consent process and the mundane practices of biomedical research more broadly. Given that these assumptions have important implications for risk and inclusivity in clinical trials, in the last part of this paper we outline directions for future research on the reproduction of heteronormativity in scientific discourse and practice.

Keywords: heteronormativity, biomedical research, clinical trials, gender binary, scientific discourse.

This seminar paper deals with the issue of heteronormativity in translations of homoerotic elements in Shakespeare’s plays and sonnets. The analytical part deals with extracts from three of Shakespeare’s plays: The Merchant of Venice, As You Like It and Twelfth Night, as well as four of his sonnets: Sonnet 20, Sonnet 53, Sonnet 87 and Sonnet 126. It analyses only those plays and examples regarded as homoerotic in the source language, which are then compared with their Slovene translations. The paper deals with the influence of the source language on the translation, the influence of heteronormativised translations on the future development of Slovene linguistic manuals as well as the influence the translation has on the whole play and on the reader. For the plays I chose the translations of Oton Župančič, and for the sonnets, the prize-wining translation of Janez Menart. This paper aims to determine to what extent the translations are consistent regarding content and style.

When the issue of basic income is discussed from feminist perspective, it seems that it is usually done so focusing on gender role and gendered division of labor. As the issue of gender role and gendered division of labor in this regard is mainly discussed in the frame of heterosexual couple, usually, in marital relationship, it often leaves out women who do not follow conventional type of relationship such as lesbian, single woman with no intention of marriage, sex worker, teen age who live independently, single mother and so on. When one examines the potential of basic income for the women's liberation, those women's subject position should also be taken into serious consideration. It is more so because, in South Korea, firstly the marriage rate gets lower, secondly, types of relationship gets changing over time, and thirdly, heterosexual marriage system is an apparatus which sustains current gender norms and hierarchy on one hand, hierarchy of sexuality on the other hand. This paper argues that the feminist proponents of basic income should discuss the issue beyond heterosexual marriage system and heteronormativity which assumes binary gender identity and role as well as heterosexual relationship and marriage. This paper examines the changing demography in terms of marital status, family structure, life expectancy in relation to work and income in South Korea and argues that basic income will play a critical role in reforming the way people relate themselves to others in general and gender relation in particular.

While "no means no" considers sex as consensual until someone says no, "yes means yes" defines sex only then as consensual when all parties have explicitly agreed. Consent is thus positively determined by the presence of a yes and no longer negatively determined by the absence of a no. "Yes means yes" thus not only sets the limit as to when sex becomes sexual violence, it also tells us how morally "correct" sex should look like. In the first part I will give an insight into debates about affirmative consent in the US and Germany. In the following, I will work out how affirmative consent misjudges the subjectifying functioning of sexual power relations. I will show that the understanding of affirmative consent is based on a gendered giver-receiver grammar of consent, which stabilizes heteronormative notions of female sexuality as passive and male sexuality as active. Based on the results of conversational analytical studies on sexual communication, I will argue that the politics of affirmative consent underestimates the internalization of heteronormative discourses in sexual subjects.

El sistema heteropatriarcal ha determinado cómo ha de desarrollarse la estructura de la sociedad y las relaciones entre personas con identidades diversas, además de establecer desigualdades sociales. Ello ha condicionado la forma en que la arqueología como disciplina se ha aproximado al estudio de las sociedades del pasado, tanto en sus cuerpos teóricos como metodológicos. Dado que las identidades son construcciones sociales flexibles y variables, se hace necesario revisar y deconstruir esos paradigmas a fin de lograr interpretaciones no sesgadas. El estudio de las actividades de mantenimiento en la Prehistoria constituye la mejor forma de aproximarse a la deconstrucción del sesgo androcéntrico en la tradición historiográfica.

ABSTRACT The heteropatriarchal system has determined how the society's structure must develop as well as the relationships between people with diverse identities, besides establishing social inequalities. That has conditioned the way archaeology has approached as a discipline to the study of past societies both in the theoretical and methodological corpus. Given that identities are flexible, variable social constructions, it is necessary to look over and deconstruct these paradigms in order to achieve non slanted interpretations. The study of maintenance activities in Prehistory constitutes the best way of approaching the deconstruction of the androcentric bias in historiographical tradition.

Summering in Asbury Park in 1908 enabled Alice Ramsey to hone her motor skills as she drove 6,000 miles of Monmouth County roads. She developed skills to care for and maintain the car, with few services available to her. Her winning performances in endurance runs on Long Island and between New York City and Philadelphia caught the eye of a Maxwell-Briscoe car promoter who invited her to undertake a sponsored trip across the country. When she crossed the country in 1909, only a tiny percentage of women drove; there were few formal roads and very little guidance on how to navigate. While she was known throughout her life as Mrs. John R. Ramsey and had two children, after her husband's death in 1933, Alice Ramsey, under cover of her married name and her identity as mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother, lived for 50 years with women she loved. Her wealth, presumptive heterosexuality, and notoriety as an automotive pioneer led newspapers and magazines in the 1960s and 1970s to cover her unconventional life. Heralded automotive pioneer Alice Huyler Ramsey, who drove from New York City to San Francisco in 1909, captured the imagination of Americans. With her jaunty cap and pluck, she charmed the public then and now with her fortitude, absolutely demanded by the trip. Her life's journey, however, proved to also be a remarkable one. Hidden until now by the cover of heterosexuality and maternity, and with the protection of socioeconomic standing, Mrs. John Ramsey lived with and loved two women. While her matrimonial name and role as a mother gave the public social assurances, her consistent behavior suggests her commitment to and public acknowledgment of her long-standing relationships with women.

Drawing on Cherríe Moraga's semi-autobiographical writings and varied scholarly work, this article contends that in her play, The Hungry Woman: A Mexican Medea (2001), she not only critiques patriarchal heteronormativity, but she goes further by naming the necessary elements for a society in which her "Queer Aztlán" (1993), would be possible. Through a close reading of The Hungry Woman: A Mexican Medea (2001), this article demonstrates that the play not only focuses on the necessary deconstruction of patriarchal nationalism, but it also offers the unexpected seeds of change, found in the secondary character of Luna. By shifting our focus onto this character, we may better appreciate Moraga's forward thinking and the kernels of "Queer Aztlán" expressed in this play.

At the opening of South Africa’s first democratic parliament in 1994, newly elected president Nelson Mandela issued a clarion call to an unlikely group: white Afrikaans women, who during apartheid occupied the ambivalent position of being both oppressor and oppressed. He conjured the memory of poet Ingrid Jonker as ‘an Afrikaner and an African’ who ‘instructs that our endeavours must be about... liberation'. More than two decades later, the question is: how have white Afrikaans-speaking women responded to the emancipating possibilities of constitutional democracy? With Afrikaner nationalism in disrepair, and official apartheid in demise, have they re-imagined themselves in opposition to colonial ideas of race, gender, sexuality and class? Sitting Pretty explores this postapartheid identity through the concepts of ordentlikheid, as an ethnic form of respectability, and the volksmoeder, or mother of the nation, as enduring icon. Issues of intersectionality, space, emotion and masculinity are also investigated.
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Malgré la prolifération de recherches sur le genre, de débats sociétaux virulents, de luttes pour la reconnaissance où les enjeux identitaires se doublent d’enjeux citoyens, les sciences sociales demeurent peu bavardes sur l’hétérosexualité. À partir d’une étude qualitative sur les conduites sexuelles et la construction des masculinités chez une population de jeunes Marocains, musulmans, immigrés en Europe, cet ouvrage analyse les discours, les pratiques et les manières d’être en relation qui instituent l’hétérosexualité comme la norme socialement juste et convenable.

Comment le pouvoir de l’hétéronormativité se manifeste-t-il ? Comment est-il produit chez ceux qui se conforment à son ordre ? L’auteur analyse l’hétéronormativité comme un processus de socialisation historiquement et culturellement situé qui, par des pratiques, des interactions et des échanges verbaux entre individus, les amène à se construire, à se raconter et à se rendre compréhensibles aux autres autant qu’à eux-mêmes.

Heteronormativity --and its hegemonic status as a normalising and oppressive discourse --is reinforced through institutions such as the educational system. Heteronorms privilege normative gender and sexual identities while marginalising queer identities and the individuals that identify with them. As the current educational institution

Over the past fifty years, children’s picture books have made great strides toward literary equity by including more perspectives from and stories about marginalized groups, such as those whose gender identities do not conform to heteronormative standards. While texts featuring gender-variant male characters engage in topics that are far too often shoved into the proverbial closet, what is yet to be determined is the degree to which they adequately reflect the complexity of (gender) identity and to what extent such picture books can counter narratives related to traditional ‘‘masculinity.’’ The purpose of this paper is to critically examine picture book representations of gender variance, as exhibited by male characters, in order to determine the books’ potential for exploring issues of social justice with elementary-age students. This study utilizes a critical multiculturalist lens to challenge the ways in which gender variance is represented in children’s literature and the reasons that young gender-variant male protagonists achieve—or do not achieve—communal acceptance.

Im Rekurs auf Kimberlé Crenshaws Konzept einer "political intersectionality" und Erkenntnissen aus den post-/dekolonialen Queer Studies diskutiert dieser Beitrag die komplexen Verstrickungen von Rassismus und Hetero-/Homonormativität. Ausgehend von dem ‚Phänomen' Alice Weidel und einer nur scheinbaren Widersprüchlichkeit zwischen Rassismus/rechter Politik und LGBTIQ*-Kämpfen wird gezeigt, in welcher Weise durch eine zunehmende Auslagerung von LGBTIQ*-Feindlichkeit auf (vermeintlich)  fremde Körper, andere (Welt-)Regionen und Kulturen sowie in ein temporales Früher, rassistische Deutungsmuster und Grenzziehungen im Rahmen aktueller LGBTIQ*-Politiken (re-)produziert werden.

Nesse estudo intencionamos mostrar a função dos meios de comunicação voltados para o público LGBT no Brasil como aparato que possibilita a repetição e reprodução das normas garantindo eficácia dos atos performativos e da heternormatividade, mantendo as identidades hegemônicas privilegiadas, estabilizando-as e padronizando-as.

Drawing upon the example of Australia’s first female Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, and her de facto partner, Tim Mathieson, this chapter considers the ways in which concerns around the ‘legitimacy’ of this relationship worked in tandem with other deeply embedded discourses about the ‘illegitimacy’ of her leadership within the Australian political and media spheres to call into question her credibility as prime minister. If successful leadership is presumed to require a successful relationship (as in a state sanctioned, heteronormative one), what happens when the celebrity political couple is not so easily assimilated into these loaded gendered narratives? Although much has been written about how, as PM, Gillard was subject to intense misogyny from other politicians, journalists and even ‘ordinary’ citizens via social media, this chapter seeks to interrogate what her representation reveals about the operations of contemporary celebrity culture as well as the ongoing privileging of marriage.

This critical content analysis of 116 award-winning English language picture storybooks explores depictions of families in order to identify and question dominant family models.

NOTE: I do not have permission to post the entire article here, but it can be found on Proquest. The Proquest document id# is 2316403191

Heteronormativity is a hegemonic system of norms, discourses, and practices that constructs heterosexuality as natural and superior to all other expressions of sexuality. Queer theorist Michael Warner (1991) coined the term heteronormativity to illuminate the privileging of heterosexuality in social relations, which relegates sexual minorities to a marginal status position. Heteronormativity legitimates homophobia -the irrational fear of gay and lesbian people -and heterosexism -the discrimination of sexual minorities within social relations and structures. Heteronormative standards and discourses that legitimate the discrimination of sexual minorities can be found in most social institutions, including religion, the family, education, the media, the law, and the state. For example, the media often underrepresents lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people and/or presents them stereotypically. In the educational realm, LGBTQ people are often completely erased from sexual health and other pedagogical materials. Sexually marginalized individuals are often denied domestic partner benefits or access to marriage, and they face a host of other discriminatory practices because their relationships are valued less than a heterosexual relationship.

This feminist event is for all women who denounce the escalating violence and oppression that mark the 21 st Century, who rage against the continued exclusion and silencing of women throughout the world, and who are convinced that a strong feminist response is essential for the creation of a fairer future.

Thematic Analysis (TA) is an accessible, flexible, and increasingly popular method of qualitative data analysis. Learning to do it provides the qualitative researcher with a foundation in the basic skills needed to engage with other approaches to qualitative data analysis. In this chapter, we first outline the basics of what TA is and explain why it is so useful. The main part of the chapter then demonstrates how to do thematic analysis, using a worked example with data from one of our own research projects—an interview-based study of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transsexual (LGBT) students’ experiences of university life. We conclude by discussing how to conduct thematic analysis well and how to avoid doing it poorly.

While empirical studies on LGBT individuals coming out to their parents are common in Western societies, these studies are rare in non-Western societies. This article attempts to fill that void by shedding light on the experiences of Japanese individuals coming out to their parents. The coming-out narratives of Japanese LGBT individuals (N = 43) were examined. This study revealed three important findings. (1) Similar to the findings of studies in Western societies, Japanese LGBT individuals typically consider coming out to their fathers considerably more difficult than coming out to their mothers. Moreover, many study participants expressed the absence of a significant relationship with their fathers, even before coming out—making coming out to their fathers unnecessary. (2) Similar to the findings in previous studies, Japanese mothers' responses are often reactionary and abusive; in fact, a disproportionate number of Japanese lesbian, bisexual female, and transgender Female-to-Male/X-gender individuals reported their mothers' markedly negative, personal responses, illustrating why some were reluctant to come out to their mothers. (3) By contrast, Japanese gay and transgender Male-to-Female/X-gender individuals reported their mothers' responses were comparatively undemonstrative. Also, they typically attribute their mothers' negative responses to the fact that mothers are the solo overseers of heteronormative norms at home. Overall, Japanese LGBT individuals' experiences reveal the gendered effects of Japanese sociocultural configuration, as well as the Japanese cultural implication of disclosing one's sexuality.

This study aims to address the view that sexuality can be identified through linguistic features. By removing visual evidence and solely providing audio data, listeners are asked to rate self-identified heterosexual and homosexual males on a range of various personality traits, across four different genres. This study highlights that people are unable to identify sexuality correctly based upon audio input alone, yet that stereotypical links are still evident within perceptions of the sexuality spectrum. Further investigation is required in order to establish if the same results can be seen within other members of the LGBTIQ community.

La autonomía tiene bastante influencia de la heteronomía aún. La heteronomía moldea a la autonomía. No es posible situarlas en esferas de injerencia del todo separadas, más bien se asemejan a un diagrama de Venn, en el cual se intersectan ambos conjuntos, generando un híbrido o área gris que manifiesta ambigüedad y vaguedad desde un punto de vista fáctico a través de las corrientes filosóficas relevantes, de las consecuencias de sus postulados y de sus interpretaciones.

As danças de salão são uma manifestação de ócio predominantemente heteronormativa. Neste sentido, este trabalho, que compõe parte de minha pesquisa de doutorado, é uma investigação sobre os espaços de dança de salão queer/gay/livre. A metodologia desta pesquisa é qualitativa. Trata-se de um estudo de caso realizado em três cidades latino-americanas (Buenos Aires, Montevidéu e São Paulo), em que é feita uma triangulação com a informação obtida das observações participantes em aulas e bailes, das entrevistas de profundidade e das teorias do gênero e teorias queer. Os resultados da pesquisa evidenciam que os espaços queer/gay/livres são um importante lugar de encontro e de resistência para as pessoas que questionam a heteronormatividade presente na dança de salão.

In 2015, the New Zealand Ministry of Education released a new
curriculum policy document for sexuality education in all schools
– Sexuality Education: A Guide for Boards of Trustees, Principals and
Teachers. This policy is a rare international example of a curriculum
document that explicitly values diversity, promotes inclusive school
environments, and approaches sexuality education as an area of study
(rather than a health promotion intervention). Since its release, the
document has, however, gained little attention either of a scholarly
nature or in terms of dedicated implementation in schools. One
exception is a recent article in this journal by Sarah Garland-Levett,
which raises some interesting and important concerns about the
possibilities of such policy documents. I follow her lead here and
continue the discussion about the place and potential of progressive
sexuality education policy, and offer some thoughts about the content
and intentions of this text.