This erasure can be found in a number of written and oral texts, including popular and scholarly texts.
In academia and media
Queer historian
Gregory Samantha Rosenthal refers to queer erasure in describing the exclusion of LGBT history from public history that can occur in urban contexts via gentrification.[4] Rosenthal says this results in the "displacement of queer peoples from public view".[5] Cáel Keegan describes the lack of appropriate and realistic representation of queer people, HIV-positive people, and queer people of color as being a type of aesthetic gentrification, where space is being appropriated from queer people's communities where queer people are not given any cultural representation.[6]
Erasure of LGBT people has taken place in medical research and schools as well, such as in the case of
academia can be places where visibility is produced or erased, such as the exclusion of gay and bisexual women in HIV discourses and studies or the lack of attention to LGBT identities in dealing with anti-bullying discourse in schools.[citation needed
Straightwashing is a form of queer erasure that refers to the portrayal of LGBT people, fictional characters, or historical figures as heterosexual.[7] It is most prominently seen in works of fiction, whereby characters who were originally portrayed as or intended to be homosexual, bisexual, or asexual are misrepresented as heterosexual.[8][9]
In its most extreme form, bisexual erasure can include the belief that bisexuality itself does not exist.
hypersexual erases the sexual agency of bisexuals, effectively erasing their true identities as well.[15]
Bisexual erasure is often a manifestation of biphobia,[10][11][12] although it does not necessarily involve overt antagonism. Erasure frequently results in bisexual-identifying individuals experiencing a variety of adverse social encounters, as they not only have to struggle with finding acceptance within general society but also within the LGBT community.[16] Bisexual erasure is a form of stigma and leads to adverse mental health consequences for people who identify as bisexual, or similar, such as pansexual.[17][18]
Homosexuality erasure
Gay erasure
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lesbian women or relationships in history, academia, the news media, and other primary sources.[19][20] Lesbian erasure also refers to instances wherein lesbian issues, activism, and identity is deemphasized or ignored within feminist groups[21] or the LGBT community.[19][20]
transfeminist book Whipping Girl. Serano says that transgender people are "effectively erased from public awareness" due to the assumption that everyone is cisgender (non-transgender) or that transgender identification is rare.[22] The notion of transgender erasure has been backed up by later studies.[23]
Aspec and agender erasure
Aromantic erasure
See also:
Aromantic § Discrimination and cultural erasure
Aromantic people are often erased due to the societal expectation that everyone prospers with an exclusive romantic relationship, something that Elizabeth Brake has coined as the term amatonormativity. Aromantic people face continued pressure and prejudice to conform to the "social norms" and form a permanent romantic relationship such as marriage.[24][25]
Asexual erasure
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Asexual erasure
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Intersex erasure
intersex activist community which campaigns for intersex human rights, and against intersex medical interventions which they see as unnecessary and mistreatment.[29]
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