Title Pending 91697

This is an accepted article with a DOI pre-assigned that is not yet published.Queer Theory has had a central premise since its foundation: to destabilize identities & understand them as contested sociocultural constructs. This article combines conceptual elements from Queer Theory and Phenomenology to understand the formation of queer subjectivities. This research was conducted by studying adult queer book clubs in Quito, Ecuador. Through an ethnographical methodology, the processes of subjectivation, and representation within these communities are reconstructed, as well as their cultural practices. The result is an insight into LGBTI+ populations that argues that their queer experiences transcend the categories of homosexuality and transsexuality, and are instead shaped by identifications, life trajectories, and situated knowledge (Haraway, 1995). Finally, it conceives a marica [queer] experience category that takes local conditions and intersectional relations under consideration.