Butler sees deviant sexualities more generally as involving this same process of denaturalizing, as parodic subversive repetitions which displace rather than consolidate heterosexual norms.

We have refused to repress our desires, in spite of enormous pressure to conform to heterosexual norms.

An in-your-face spectacle, it deliberately presented behavior designed to flout conventional, heterosexual norms.

As Ryan states: "It is only the laborious imprinting of heterosexual norms that cuts away those potentials and manufactures heterosexuality as the dominant sexual format."

But emerging in less inclusive times, these singers only suggested alternatives to heterosexual norms without being explicitly "out."

She puts particular emphasis on the breaking of heterosexual and possessive sexual norms, urging her comrades to join "The Homosexual Intifada".