Montreal’s Main Drag: At the Intersection of Queer and Immigrant Identities in Michel Tremblay’s Theatre
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article examines four works by Michel Tremblay — one of Quebec’s most prominent gay authors and, more recently, a chronicler of Montreal’s urban landscape — to consider the intersectionality between Montreal’s queer and immigrant communities. This intersection can be mapped onto a quite literal geographic crossing, that of Boulevard Saint-Laurent (focus of Montreal’s rich immigrant history) and Rue Sainte-Catherine (long a hub of sexual activity in Montreal). The article contrasts the account of this intersection presented in La Traversée de la ville (2008) with three older plays — Sainte Carmen de la Main (1976), Hosanna (1973), and Damnée Manon, sacrée Sandra (1977) — in which sexuality plays a more prominent role and which showcase this geographic intersection mid-century, when it was the epicentre of the city’s Red-Light District. Although ‘ethnic’ Montreal has gained in prominence in Tremblay’s more recent writing with a concordant shift away from the obviously queer storylines of his earlier works, close readings of the earlier plays reveal that the intersection between immigrant and queer identities has (to varying degrees) always been staged in Tremblay’s plays.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".