A Critical Autoethnography of Queering Religious Monuments and a Museum

Abstract

Religious monuments and museums systematically curate experiences for visitors by marginalizing certain viewpoints and narratives that are regarded outside the ethos of socio-cultural religious discourse. Amidst this forced invisiblization, visitors from minority groups may accept their erasure or claim spaces through language, meaning-making, and singular ways of engaging with objects and spaces. This article uses autoethnographic writing to examine how a visitor reclaims religious monuments and a museum by critically reinterpreting narratives from a queer standpoint. The author argues that visitor studies can focus on the interrelationships among religious sites, religious content, and their relationships with LGBTQ+ believers by using autoethnography as a method of reflecting on visitor experience.

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