ABSTRACT
This chapter contextualises black queer women (BQW) scene space in Washington DC within the ongoing conversations regarding subjects within urban gay space. Many BQW socialise in mainstream venues throughout the city as well, often in large groups. House parties are also a fairly regular way that BQW socialise, many preferring house parties over commercial venues. The most visible BQW scene spaces are parties thrown by Black lesbian event promoters who rent out space in venues across the city to host parties. Intersectionality refers generally to the theory of multiple, intersecting, or mutually reinforcing categories of identity and or oppression including race, gender, sexuality and class. Women of colour feminisms are responsible for the theoretical intervention which holds that multiple aspects of one's identity and multiple forms of oppression come together to characterise the experience of women of colour.
