Exploring Sociocultural Borderlands: Journeying, Navigating, and Embodying a Queer Identity

Abstract

This case study explores experiences of a bisexual Latino male (age 18) whose identities cross various boundaries of heteronormativity routinely legitimized through a variety of school practices. Using a queer theoretical lens, the author examines intersections of race, ethnicity, class, spirituality, sexual orientation, and gender performance as reflected in the lived realities of this young man played out in the environment of a large, urban public high school in the southwest United States. Performance of a fluid masculinity provides a central vehicle for negotiations and synthesis of competing identities against conflicting peer and social norms and as a focus of this inquiry. Victor Turner's (1995) concept of liminality provides a staging area for a construct of holistic masculinity in which formation and articulation of identities are actually clarified rather than blurred.

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