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- Title
Skeive liv.
- Authors
STUBBERUD, ELISABETH; EGGEBØ, HELGA; ANDERSSEN, NORMAN
- Abstract
What is being highlighted when queer people in Norway talk about their lives in the 2010s? In this article we analyse common denominators across qualitative interviews with 99 queer people with different backgrounds and in different life situations. Despite the many differences between the participants, there were some overarching themes that recurred and appeared significant across other differences: 1) Experiences of feeling different, 2) negative encounters, 3) exploration of identity related to sexuality and gender, 4) coming out as queer, 5) coming into queer communities and 6) reflections on kinship and family. These important themes can be single events in time, at the same time as experiences are repeated throughout life both as events and by being recited as part of a queer life story. The events become significant beyond the time and place in which they happened and become part of a situated queer life story. We understand the six themes as queer metanarratives that participants draw on when they are talking about themselves as queer. In this article we explore these metanarratives and some of the significant variation in concrete experiences between participants. We argue that these important events tell us something about how we make ourselves recognisable as queer in the 2010s.
- Subjects
NORWAY; COMING out (Sexual orientation); LGBTQ+ people; KINSHIP; SIGNIFICANT others; GENDER; CONCRETE
- Publication
Lambda Nordica, 2021, Vol 26, Issue 4 / 1, p50
- ISSN
1100-2573
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.34041/ln.v26.763