« Beautiful physiques, dizzying sex and exhilarating settings ». Production et reproduction des récits nationaux et des imaginaires homoérotiques dans les campings gais québécois
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Men-only gay campgrounds in Quebec function as contested landscapes, resisting dominant ideological narratives surrounding queerness and its relation to nature. While operating as utopian refuges that challenge metronormativity, these sites reveal profound ambivalence. This article analyzes their visual and spatial cultures—from camp landscaping to pornographic archetypes—as practices of disidentification and world-making that redefine the figure of the camper and its environment. Situated within broader imaginaries of wilderness and national belonging, these enclaves deploy aesthetics of classical pastoralism and pornified hypermasculinity that both subvert heteronormativity and reproduce dominant colonial structures. By mobilizing the myth of terra nullius and homonationalist tropes such as the fetishized Mountie, these spaces materialize the enduring entanglement of desire, landscape, and ideology, ultimately exposing a critical tension between queer emancipation and colonial reproduction within Canadian visual and spatial narratives.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.022 | 0.029 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.013 | 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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), 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".