Within academia, queer is defined against not just heterosexuality but heteronormativity, allowing queerness to be identified in people’s behaviors rather than just their gender/sexuality identities.

Queer (in academia)

The attitudes and structures in society that position heterosexuality as the “normal”.

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Romantic and/or sexual attraction only to people of the “opposite” sex or gender.

Heterosexuality

Warner, Michael, ed. (2011). Fear of a queer planet : queer politics and social theory. University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 978-0-8166-2334-1. OCLC 934391034. 

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