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Carl F. Stychin, "Queer Nations: Nationalism, Sexuality and the Discourse of Rights in Quebec", Feminist Legal Studies V/1 (1997), 3-34: In this article, the author seeks to interrogate the relationship between national culture, sexual identity politics, and rights discourse in the context of political and legal developments in Quebec. He argues that while nationalist discourse has left space to homosexuality within its imagination of a Quebec nation, creating arguably the most "progressive" society in North America in terms of lesbian and gay politics, it has also had an ambiguous relationship with the homosexual. While at some moments, homosexuality has served as a metaphor for the place of Quebec in relation to the rest of Canada, at other times a discourse of colonial contamination has been deployed to situate homosexuality as a foreign and corrupting influence. Although the increasing centrality of rights discourse in Quebec political culture creates the possibility for "progressive" legal change, cultural change may be more unpredictable given the often contradictory constructions of homosexuality within the discourses of Quebecois nationalism.

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