Sentence:  <WSD>Homonormativity</WSD> is largely a product of tolerance and, as Brown tells us, tolerance, among other things, exists in the social realm to cover over inequitable particularities in the legal sphere. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  The assumption that sexual and romantic attraction and activity between people of the same sex is normal, especially in a culture which also treats opposite-sex activity as normal, and which assumes all people are either male or female in both sex and gender.