Des désirs qui orientent : une analyse phénoménologique des identifications et désidentifications lezbiqueer dans l’espace montréalais
Through a critical phenomenological perspective using walking interviews (Ahmed 2006, Lee 2015, Weiss et al., 2019), this thesis explores different meanings associated with the sexual orientations of lesbian, bisexual, queer, fluid and pansexual women in the Montreal context. This approach is based on the experiential sharing of 21 lezbiqueer women with various positionnalities, co-constructing meaning through the trajectories we followed and the photographs submitted by the participants. Sexual identifications questions are linked to spatial questions (Jones and Garde-Hansen 2012, Longhurst and Johnston 2010, Collie 2013, Browne and Ferreira 2015, Podmore 2006 and 2019) through an analysis of both the content of the interviews and the way we walked during these interviews. The three parts of the thesis address migratory trajectories (the experience of arriving in Montreal as a lezbiqueer person), the spaces and identifications of lezbiqueer communities in Montreal from 1980 to today, and the visibilities and sensitivities perceived by lezbiqueer women in public spaces.
LGBTQ lesbian bisexual space identity space Montreal phenomenology orientation identification queer