ABSTRACT
This chapter seeks to explore how the different aspects are interconnected by using the particular ethnographic moment a starting point for an analysis of the home as a gendered space. In reality the term can include a wide array of different gendered and sexual identities, ranging from transvestites and drag queens to ostensibly ‘straight’ men who perform putatively effeminate jobs or social roles. While the many qauri stressed that the fact they also desire sex with what they perceive as ‘straight men’ makes the bearable, it also significantly limits their level of broader social inclusion. Reflecting on the meaning of the home, and of the expectations associated with entering one’s domestic space in a cross-cultural and non-heteronormative context, necessarily became intricately linked to broader reflections on gendered and sexual power relations in Fiji in particular and in anthropological fieldwork in general.
