This article examines the experiences of LGBTQ people from a Muslim background in their navigations of different areas of Brussels, and their narratives on such experiences. It builds on literature on the territorialization of homo/bi/transphobia to neighborhoods framed as “Muslim” in continental Western Europe, and the imagination of rigid borders separating these areas from other parts of the city. The article presents analysis of semi-structured interviews with LGBTQ people from a Muslim background on their experiences of these demarcations. The analysis of data calls for a deconstruction of rigid discourses of difference and division at work in the city. This allows for an understanding of the complex ways in which LGBTQ people from a Muslim background relate to different areas of the city, and how their multiple crossings into/from racialized-as-Muslim neighborhoods escape the rigidity of essentialized imaginations of the city along civilizational lines.

本文考察了来自穆斯林背景的LGBTQ族人在布鲁塞尔各个地区的航行中的经历，以及对这些经历的叙述。它建立在关于将同性恋/双性恋/恐惧症在西欧大陆框为“穆斯林”的社区的地域化的文献上，以及对将这些地区与城市其他地区分隔开的僵硬边界的想象力基础上。本文介绍了来自穆斯林背景的LGBTQ人对这些分界的经历的半结构式访谈的分析。数据分析要求解构僵化的城市差异和分歧话语。这有助于了解来自穆斯林背景的LGBTQ人与城市不同地区之间的复杂联系方式，