That simple image… is right at the root of homophobia… The fundamental image of life, of family, of childhood, of survival, is man and woman. Every story, every myth, every image reinforces that. Even images of the real world reinforce that, because statistically heterosexuality is the norm. It’s the default. It’s the icon. Man/man or woman/woman disrupts a fundamental childhood image… That’s why, in this gay lark, I stress visibility… I barely ever do an interview without mentioning being gay, and that’s deliberate. We have to become visible, especially to the young, as part of the norm, then the picture starts to develop and widen.‘
Russell T. Davies, The Writer’s Tale (via viraho)
the moment when the weight of the heteronormative lens became clear to me was when i was watching rtd’s queer as folk and vince goes to a straight bar and ‘game of love’ plays the one that goes ‘The purpose of a man is to love a woman And the purpose of a woman is to love a man’ and it’s so jarring in context because vince is pretending to be straight because he’s in the closet at work it’s such a powerful moment with the pairing of the situation and the song that it’s really when i first understood how deep this goes in our society i still think about that moment (via @butterflydm)
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