Patricia brings up three key points that racism and heterosexism have in common one being that both have “mechanisms”, as the author puts them, to keep racism and heterosexism on a specific hierarchy. Like how you can tell that certain races are confined in certain areas of a state with decreasing levels of education and terrible housing situations, thus embedding the constant growth of a certain social class. Also how there was a lot of pressure for gays and lesbians to stay “in the closet” because society did not accept it as widely as it does now. Another key point she touches on would be the fact that the government has placed a few blinders onto society’s eyes with racism and heterosexism by passing laws to show them the “right way” to
