Homofobia z perspektywy queer
Homophobia from a Queer Perspective

From Revulsion to the System of Sexual Segregation

Author(s): Jacek Kochanowski
Subject(s): Gender Studies, Sociology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: heteronormativity; homophobia; ideology; queer; sexual segregation
Summary/Abstract: This paper analyzes the concept of homophobia from the perspective of social queer theory. The introduction to the analysis of the notion in question is a consideration of biphobia and transphobia. Subsequently, the author characterizes homophobia as a cultural and social phenomenon, using categories such as the center and the margins, visibility and phallogocentrism. Kochanowski identifies the sources of homophobia in the mechanisms of power which impose mandatory heterosexuality, and draws attention to its consequence: gender and sexual segregation. On the basis of the presented characteristics, the author formulates the definition of homophobia as a set of meanings and social practices connected with those meanings, related to defending and maintaining the system of obligatory heterosexuality. The specific contexts of homophobia occurrence are also mentioned – the political context (political homophobia) and the state context (institutional homophobia).

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