Scandinavian design . The continuous closet and queer refugees in Denmark

Dados Bibliográficos

ID19001096
AutoresRieke Schröder (0000-0003-0335-6005, Aalborg University, autor correspondente)
Ano2023
Volume28
Fascículo1-2
Páginas435-449
Data de publicação2023-08-31
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSexualities (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1363-4607 • E-ISSN: 1461-7382
EditoraSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/13634607231199405
OpenAlexW4386375457
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas6
Referências citadas33

This article explores how queer refugees’ navigation of ‘the closet’, centre of the coming out metaphor, is subverting its Scandinavian Design . While many queer people in Denmark conceptualize coming out of the closet as a desirable process, allowing queer subjects to become who they truly are, this understanding is challenged by the experiences of queer refugees who are strategically (not) coming out of the closet in different spaces and at different times. Through interviews with queer refugees and volunteers of a support group in Copenhagen, the article shows how these individuals negotiate the continuous closet – (re)appearing in different spaces and at different times. In being cautious about where to come out (on dating apps, in support groups, at home), to whom (friends, family, potential lovers) and at what time(s), queer refugees balance the refugee regimes’ expectations of normative LGBT(IQ)+ identities with their own complex lived realities

Closet · Lesbian · Negotiation · Political science · Queer · Refugee · Social science · Sociology · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · History · Law · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy