Friends on Purpose: The Queer in Friendship

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This analysis reveals how queer friendship disrupts normative intimacy hierarchies, highlighting its radical potential.

Queer friendship challenges traditional intimacy frameworks, redefining relational bonds beyond family norms.
It critically engages with concepts like amatonormativity, showing how friendship can still reflect institutional pressures.
Using autotheory, the article seeks a suitable language for describing non-institutionalized intimate relationships.
Friendship is presented as a chosen practice, opening avenues for relating that resist normative values and structures.

Madeleine Häusler (2025) studied this question.

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This analysis reveals how queer friendship disrupts normative intimacy hierarchies, highlighting its radical potential.

Queer friendship challenges traditional intimacy frameworks, redefining relational bonds beyond family norms.
It critically engages with concepts like amatonormativity, showing how friendship can still reflect institutional pressures.
Using autotheory, the article seeks a suitable language for describing non-institutionalized intimate relationships.
Friendship is presented as a chosen practice, opening avenues for relating that resist normative values and structures.

Madeleine Häusler (2025) studied this question.

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