The models we have, and the standards we are expected to maintain, come to us via heterosexuality as a normative state. Heterosexuality–whatever the current version of that concept happens to be–is unremarkable because it is the standard by which everything else is measured. That is heterosexual privilege.

The models we have, and the standards we are expected to maintain, come to us via heterosexuality as a normative state. Heterosexuality–whatever the current version of that concept happens to be–is unremarkable because it is the standard by which everything else is measured. That is heterosexual privilege.

– Hanne Blank –

Straight: The Surprisingly Short History Of Heterosexuality

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