By heterosexism, I mean the complex of attitudes, beliefs, and assumptions that uphold sexual desire, sexual acts, romantic attraction, or intimate attachments between individuals of different sex-gender as normal, preferred, or prevalent compared to sexual desire, sexual acts, romantic attraction, or intimate attachments between individuals of the same sex-gender.

I use heterosexist to describe ideas, institutions, groups or individuals expressing the attitudes, beliefs, and assumptions that uphold sexual desire, sexual acts, romantic attraction, or intimate attachments between individuals of different sex-gender as normal, preferred, or prevalent compared to sexual desire, sexual acts, romantic attraction, or intimate attachments between individuals of the same sex-gender.