Sexualities and national identities: Re-imagining queer nationalism

This article draws on the literature addressing citizenship, nationalism, f eminism and queer politics in order to re-examine the relationship between national identities and sexual minorities in Canada today. In particular, t he question of women's place within the constructs of mainstream nationalis t discourse and queer nationalism is addressed. Using the concept of "relat ional positionality," the article advances a feminist analyses of the Queer Nation movement in order to reconsider the theoretical and political impli cations of a nationalism grounded in queer experience and to evaluate the e xtent to which queer nationalism can be "lesbian-friendly."