To be Queer and Lebanese in Montreal: Multiple, Complex and Variable Ethno-Sexual Identities
Drawing on the results of our thesis, this article reports on the ways in which some of LGBTQ+ people from Lebanese descent, living in Montreal and whom are involved in a militant organization for the rights of sexual and racialized minorities, articulate and negotiate their ethno-sexual identifications. Inspired by an intersectional framing that takes into account the overlapping effects of various axes of social structures such as gender, class, sexuality, ethnicity, age, etc., the results of this research suggest, among other things, that there are different ways of representing oneself and being homosexual, and that individuals sharing non-normative sexualities do not necessarily inscribe themselves in the hegemonic gay discourse currently dominant within Western context.