Body Exposure in the Queer Context: The Role of the Pride Parade

The Pride Parade is a specific context in space and time during which the queer community behaves in certain ways. In the present final dissertation, we show a model of the correlation between body exposure and well-being in queer people during the Pride Parade. We assume that queer people during the Pride Parade tend to expose their bodies and this leads them to feel good (i.e., experience well-being). We assume this process of body exposure and well-being occurs during the Pride Parade thanks to three variables that mediate between the Pride Parade context and the body pride and exposure that queer people can experience in that moment. These three variables are (i) the identification with the queer community (i.e., the LGBTQIA+ community), (ii) the norm on the body and (iii) the norm on the majority that are in force during the Pride Parade. The data collection was conducted with two other graduating students through the distribution of two questionnaires, the second of which investigates the correlations of the variables mentioned before exclusively during the Pride Parade context. In this dissertation, I focus on the second questionnaire only.