Hetero-fascism

Full definition of hetero-fascism

Noun

1. Authoritarian or aggressive support for heteronormativity.
• 1996, 12 January, DAnder9829 username, Re: The Pink Friend of the German Jews: Ernst Roehm the Homosexual, Attempting (and failing) to Expose Homosexuality In The Nazi Party and in the process, exposing Heterofascism in America.
• 2011, Leo Robson, "Hate: a Romance by Tristan Garcia", New Statesman, 17 February 2011:The two eventually fall out, violently and publicly, over Aids, which Willie comes to see as "a moral argument that's trying to police our sexuality", just as Doumé and Leibo fall out over the latter's alleged "heterofascism".
• 2013 December 20 (airdate), Pierce Morgan Live, CNN:Glenn Beck: Do you know what happened last week in Russia? One of their biggest stars on television said that homosexuals should be put into the ovens alive. I didn't think you could make the Holocaust worse, but he's like, "Why the gas chamber? That seems a little too humane. Let's put them alive in the ovens." I said on the air this week, I will stand with GLAAD. I will stand with anybody who will stand up and say that's crazy. That's dangerous. That's hetero-fascism. That's what that is.

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