HACER HOGAR FUERA DEL CLÓSET: DISPUTANDO EL ESPACIO DOMÉSTICO EN SANTIAGO DE CHILE.

The links between home, gender and non-normative sexualities have received scant attention in academia in Chile. In this article, we analyze the discourses, practices and imaginaries concerning the home in two gay men and a lesbian woman from the commune of Peñalolén in Santiago, Chile, from a biographical and feminist perspective. Four cross-cutting dimensions are presented: 1) homemaking as a struggle for appropriation, 2) the home as a paradoxical space and negotiation with the heterosexual norm, 3) gender roles and the distribution of domestic work, and 4) the association with the extra-domestic space and local gay and lesbian imaginaries. These dimensions show that the home is a conflictive space where disputed meanings that must be understood in a dynamic, situated and intersectional way coexist. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]