straight supremacy

English

Etymology

By analogy with white supremacy.

Noun

straight supremacy (uncountable)

1. An ideology or system that holds that straight sexual orientation is superior and privileges straight people.
   • 1997, Scott Tucker, The Queer Question: Essays on Desire and Democracy, South End Press, →ISBN, page 190:

     Straight supremacy is not just a personal problem; the problem is a system of power and privilege that straight folks can also choose to resist. The notion that queers seek “special rights” obscures the real power now being exercised to preserve special and exclusive rights for 'one man and one woman'.

   • 2011 September 1, Tim Wise, White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son, Catapult, →ISBN:

     We live not only in a racialized society, but also in a class system, a patriarchal system, and one of straight supremacy, able-bodied supremacy, and Christian hegemony. These other forms of privilege, and the oppression experienced by those who can't access them, mediate but never fully eradicate something like white privilege.

Synonyms

• hetero-supremacy
• heterosupremacy

Coordinate terms

• cissupremacy
• white supremacy

See also

• cisnormative
• cisnormativity
• heteronormative
• heteronormativity
• homophobia