Queer memory, identity and place in Halifax, Nova Scotia

Abstract

Personal narratives of queer community members of Halifax were collected. Using a dual theoretical lens from Sara Ahmed’s Queer Phenomenology and Edward Soja’s Thirdspace, a narrative analysis of these personal narratives explores how these individuals and communities situate themselves and create inclusion, belonging, and community in spite of erasure from the normative cultural narratives of Halifax. Queer communities of Halifax articulate the tensions, conflicts, compromises, and labour it takes to create and occupy queer spaces in Halifax.