In order to grasp the definition of heterosexual imagery, one would need to look through the perspective of Ingraham in The Heterosexual Imaginary. According to Ingraham, heterosexual imagery is the way of thinking that “conceals the operation of heterosexuality in structuring gender and closes off any critical analysis of heterosexuality as an organizing institution” (Ingraham 1994: 203). It starts off with ideology which is a structure of ideas that forms the base of our society to help us explain how things should be. However, ideologies becomes imaginary because it becomes a depiction of how reality is which becomes common sense and then invisible to people. Heterosexual imagery becomes important to queer theory because it reinforces that
