ABSTRACT
Heteroactivism seeks to (re)assert that the very survival of society requires it to be structured around the supposedly universal and timeless institution of the heterosexual, cisgendered married couple, raising their own biological children. Heteroactivism can be seen as created through transformations and as an ‘effect of the increasing transnational mobility of people, media, commodities, discourses and capital on local, regional and national modes of sexual desire, embodiment and subjectivity’. Heteroactivists may move away from vilifying homosexuals and diminishing their families to focusing on arguments about the best interests of society and children. Heteroactivist resistances, understood through transnationalism remain attentive to the ‘social, cultural and economic conditions of their production in that place, at that time’. Heteroactivism as a transnational phenomenon refuses the presumption of resistances to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender equalities as solely or typically emanating from the diffusion of the US Christian Right.
