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{{quote|''"Through this material, today's youth can be stimulated to sexual activities for which he has no legitimate outlet. He is even enticed to enter the world of Homosexuals, Lesbians, Sadists, Masochists, and other sex deviants. The psychiatric terms for these ''unnatural'' sex acts are unknown to most ''decent'' adults in our country. But through these solicitous materials, these abnormalities are corrupting the minds and the hearts of our children. Perversion for profit!"''|'''George Putnam''', arguing for censorship in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgxEh-F_Cf8 Perversion for Profit (1965)]}}
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{{quote|''"Homosexuality is a mockery of the natural order. In that respect it is very much like sorcery. We, the Knighthood, are opposed to anything that is against the natural order!"''|'''[[Well-Intentioned Extremist|Orransong]]''' from [[Flipside]], shortly before he gets punched out.}}
 
Ranging from physical violence to political hate-mongering in their war against sexual minorities, characters cast in the role of [['''Heteronormative Crusader]]''' are a diverse lot. They can be anything from specialized [[Moral Guardians]] or [[Principles Zealot|Principles Zealots]]s, to any bloodthirsty mob equipped with [[Torches and Pitchforks]]. Sometimes it is ideologues from one of the first two groups who use hate-mongering [[Enemy Mine|to bring decent people under their influence]] by turning them into the third group. Might use [[Pitying Perversion|a bad kind of pity]] as one of their primary weapons, trying to impose [[Internalized Categorism|a negative self-image]] on the non-normative characters.
 
In fiction, the wars on homosexuality and sadomasochism is more and more often played for laughs or as a way of highlighting [[Politically-Incorrect Villain|how unsympathetic the antagonist is]]. Such an antagonist is likely to either be a [[Straw Hypocrite]], who uses a rival's sexuality as an excuse to attack him, or a hypocrite of the [[Sex Is Evil and I Am Horny]] kind.
 
The latter kind is often a more or less [[Noble Bigot|sympathetic]] [[Anti-Villain]] or [[Anti-Hero]], maybe even [[Troubled Sympathetic Bigot|a victim of his own prejudice]]. Might [[Played for Laughs|perceive]] all homosexuals and kinky people as parts of [[Everyone Is Satan in Hell]], or passionately feel that every woman ought to be a [[Housewife]]. If a [['''Heteronormative Crusader]]''' of this particular kind is female, she's very likely to also be a [[Stepford Smiler]]. If religious, the character is likely to be sufficiently [[Wrong Genre Savvy]] to believe himself to be a [[Soulsaving Crusader]]. In certain works, the character might even be right.
 
For a character to be a heteronormative ''crusader'', it's not enough to have [[wikipedia:Heteronormativity|heteronormative]] values at a [[wikipedia:Heterosexism|heterosexist]] level. The character must also be aggressive, open or confrontative about these values. Indirect or mild sign of having a heteronormative worldview is not enough. The character may:
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* Condemn male asexuals for "[[A Man Is Always Eager|not being real men]]." Women, on the other hand, [[My Girl Is Not a Slut|are expected]] to be asexual [[Sex Is Evil and I Am Horny|but]] [[Lie Back and Think of England|have sex with their man anyway]].
 
Note that a [['''Heteronormative Crusader]]''' is not necessarily unsympathetic. In some works, a father who disowns his child for being homosexual or otherwise "perverted" is likely to be [[Troubled Sympathetic Bigot|heartbroken]] rather than villainous in spite of being totally misguided in his judgement.
 
Depending on the setting, compare ''or'' contrast [[Windmill Crusader]]. Same goes for [[Soulsaving Crusader]]. If a character goes [['''Heteronormative Crusader]]''' against ''himself'', it's usually [[Internalized Categorism]] or [[Boomerang Bigot]]. In many settings, a [['''Heteronormative Crusader]]''' is likely to resort to [[Activist Fundamentalist Antics]].
 
See also [[Armoured Closet Gay]], which a Heteronormative Crusader is sometimes revealed to be. Today in the LGBT community and their close straight allies, it has actually become ''common wisdom'' that Heteronormative Crusaders are likely to be gay, because their extreme personal insecurity is a heavy [[Gaydar]] trigger. This is not to say that every Heteronormative Crusader is gay, but that it's increasingly anticipated by a gay audience. And [http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/04/120406234458.htm scientific studies have shown that homophobes are more likely to also be having same-sex attractions].
 
This trope is practically absent in [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] (as their absence in this page's examples demonstrates), where the cultural priorities are fundamentally different -- adifferent—a person's sexual orientation and its perceived rightness is rendered almost completely moot by the more commanding question of [[Confucius|filial piety and societal expectations]]. As such, the depiction of various sexual orientations has less stigma and more acceptance as simple [[Truth in Television]], because ultimately love and chemistry do not ''necessarily'' have anything to do with a socially-acceptable traditional Japanese marriage.
 
'''[[No Real Life Examples, Please|No Real Life examples]].''' They would only be [[A Worldwide Punomenon|Flame]] [[Flame Bait|Bait]].
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* [[Played for Laughs]] and for [[Fetish Fuel]] in ''[[Small Favors]]'': Only naughty people are into BDSM, and they deserve to be [[Spank the Cutie|severely punished]] for it!
* ''[[Chick Tracts]]'': Several tracts are about homosexuals being possessed by demons or generically evil. Sometimes fetish clothes and BDSM tools are used to show just how "evil" the gays are. Heterosexual BDSM doesn't seem to exist in the world of Chick.
** He really went overboard with this trope in the [[Author Tract|tract]] called [http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1070/1070_01.asp Uninvited]: The tract feature [[Heteronormative Crusader|a nurse who harasses dying AIDS-patients for their "crime" of being gay]]. Of course, [[Soulsaving Crusader|her actions are fully justified within the verse of the tract]], since this is an [[Anvilicious|anviliciouslyanvilicious]]ly bigoted [[Author Tract]]. The real kick? It turns out that all the homosexuals became homosexuals because they was sexually molested as children. More to the point, when a child gets sexually molested, she automatically becomes unclean, possessed by a demon of defilement. The trope [[Defiled Forever]] is played straight for everyone who isn't both [[The Fundamentalist]] ''and'' a Christian. Averted for all characters who are (or become) [[Holier Than Thou]]: [http://www.cafepress.co.uk/thegamer.17703956 Jesus Saves, everybody else takes 5d6 points of damage].
* ''[[Mary Worth]]'' is rather infamous for this - anyone young who isn't married to someone of the opposite gender is quickly paired up by Mary.
* [[Bitchy Bitch]]: One of the coworkers is a evangelical homophobe - who's prejudice only serves to infuriate Midge further.
* [[Bitchy Butch]]: They are ''everywhere'' (but only some of them are real - others are [[Windmill|Windmills]]s in Butchy's own mind).
* ''[[City of Dreams]]'': The white prince, trying a little bit too hard at the [[Knight in Shining Armor]] routine and coming up as nothing more than a selfish, conceited, jealous, self-righteous, patriarchal... well, you get the idea.
* [[DC Comics]] have been dropping clues about this over the last five years or so, with the accompanying crusaders. Probably most notable was Vandal Savage attempting to force Scandal, his openly lesbian daughter, to have sex with a suitable man to produce an heir. In a more general sense, Brad Meltzer has hinted more than once that there's a homosexual underground within the DCU villain community, and that being outed would result in being killed by some of the more dangerous racist villains. [[Joker Immunity|Unless you're so incredibly scary that even manly macho men are terrified of you, that is.]]
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** Consider that normal Klingon sex is pretty kinky and violent by human standards. Or from Worf's perspective, human sex is pretty gentle.
* Parodied [[Up to Eleven]] in one of the most popular episodes of the Swedish comedy show Grotesco have a protestant preacher blaming "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmlhUn8TvT0&feature=related bögarnas fel]" ( = "the gay's fault") for everything bad including earthquakes, going beyond Westboro Baptist Church style by even blaming the war in Afghanistan and the dictatorship in Iran on the gay men. He is quickly joined by a Muslim, a Jew and a Catholic nun, who all agree that "crazy fundamentalism" and all conflicts throughout history (including all religious wars - ''especially'' all religious wars) are indeed the gay men's fault.
* While the Inside Scoop episode [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GEI7HKE_D4 Ban Left Marriage] in itself is pure [[Windmill Crusader]], it's also a parody of [[Heteronormative Crusader]].
* In the ''[[Criminal Minds]] episode "In Heat", {{spoiler|1=the UnSub was a gay man motivated by the abuse his Heteronormative Crusader father subjected him to. [[Internalized Categorism|He became convinced that he was "dirty"]], and began killing men and stealing their identities to escape his own.}}
* The ''character'' [[Stephen Colbert]] strays into this not infrequently.
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* [[Penny and Aggie]]'s [[Church of Happyology|Xena]] starts a loud rant about "sexual perverts" needing to be "quarantined" at Aggie's mere mention of having gay friends (Ironic since Fred had mistaken Xena for closeted) .
* Homosexuality is one of many, many things that [[The Fundamentalist|Seymour]] from ''[[Sinfest]]'' (seen in the page picture) considers inexcusable.
* This [[Non-Indicative Name|may be]] the character type of [[Morally-Ambiguous Doctorate|Doctor]] Heteronormative, the "[[Big Bad|main]] [[Buffy-Speak|villain dude]]" from one of Jimbo's [[Romance Novel|Romance Novels]]s in ''[[Questionable Content]]''.
 
 
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