1. Any time left over was spent on the heterosexism we were experiencing from heterosexual women at the conferences.

2. It acknowledged the deep-rooted nature of heterosexism and made a commitment to fight that.

3. Such pacts of silence with heterosexuals inevitably work against the challenges to heterosexism being made by lesbians.

4. We'd been playing safe for our own survival, and scores of heterosexuals went unchallenged in their continued acts of heterosexism.

5. For all these reasons, their fears in this respect as youth workers are based on the realities of heterosexism.

6. But if it was difficult to keep racism on it, it was impossible to even breathe the word heterosexism.

7. Ifthey identify as a member of their ethnic or racial group, theymay face rejection due to heterosexism or homophobia.