ABSTRACT
This chapter explores how non-heteronormative people challenge sexual geographies by resignifying the taken for granted concept of a heterosexual space. The reterritorialisation and occupation of this hegemonic space questions the fixed and uncontested geography of normativity. We should also acknowledge that much of the literature written on the analysis of queer geographies focuses mainly on white lesbian and gay people, and has a tendency to overlook the lives and unliveable spaces of non-white or transgender people. Thus, any analysis on the disruption of a heterosexual space must also consider how class, gender and race operate simultaneously to exclude the discourses of those living on the borders and margins of power. In this chapter, I explore the complexities and diversities of queer spaces in two European films: Angelina Maccarone’s Fremde Haut (Unveiled) (2005) and Sébastien Lifshitz’s Wild Side (2004).
