Through a focus on the stage-play Being at Home with Claude by René-Daniel Dubois and its filmic adaptation by Jean Beaudin, Batson proposes a reading of Québec as a Queer space. In this Francophone province surrounded by hundreds of millions of Anglophones marked by cultural tensions even prior to calls for a “Québec libre,” notions of what constitutes minority and majority identities seem never fully fixed. Our look at the Queer as an allegory for Québec may well reveal a Québec that participates in making, creating, and nourishing (itself as) Queerness.
