...Chen Yu-Rong; Wang Ping Two activists identify hate speech and morality as two obstacles to LGBT human rights in Taiwan. Although there is no legal discrimination against homosexuals in Taiwan, the authors argue that their absence in the definition of law constitutes another order of violence...

...; they not only diversify the norm but also potentially shift the very ground on which normativity is created. same-sex marriage lesbian co-mothers LGBT rights legal consciousness Taiwan On January 26, 2018, an image appeared on a large outdoor billboard positioned on a rooftop near the Taipei main...

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... .” Marriage and Family Review 52 , nos. 1–2 : 41 – 63 . Chen Yi-ling . 2006 . “ Housing and Single Mothers in the KMT Regime of Taiwan, 1949–2000 .” Geography Research Forum 26 : 93 – 114 . Chen Yu-Rong , and Wang Ping . 2010 . “ Obstacles to LGBT Human Rights Development...

... activists—claim that anti-LGBT protesters oppose the human rights of gender and sexual minorities. 5 I focus on a particular dimension of this denial of rights and how these protestors and state institutions formulate particular imaginings of the family through sex panics. During one...

.... The heteronormative orientation of civil family laws and other regulatory domains creates different constraints for LGBT individuals, couples, and parents who seek to realize their rights to family. After decades of civil society and legal activism, Taiwan's legislature passed a law in May 2019 that legalized same...

... Macmillan . Yue Audrey . 2012 . “ Mobile Intimacies in the Queer Sinophone Films of Cui Zi’en .” Journal of Chinese Cinemas 6 , no. 1 : 95 – 108 . I Want to Make Queer Films, But Not LGBT Films: An Interview with He Xiaopei He Xiaopei, Séagh Kehoe, and Bao Hongwei, with an introduction...

... our own ways of screening films and communicating with audiences. These include online screenings and col- laborations with local LGBT NGOs and small independent film groups. This can create some social impact, but individual filmmakers do not really benefit much from those screenings financially...

...; and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) politics, especially those focused on normalizing gay identity, can easily be folded into dominant capitalist, neoliberal, and nationalist ideologies. These politics increasingly have been used...

... consequences in contexts such as the contemporary discourse of LGBT human rights.25 If China has a history of sexuality that cannot be described by the West, this argument does not yet begin to explain where the borders of the excep...

... reflects, in part, the desire in the original conference to create a forum to discuss pos- sible ties and critical exchanges between U.S. queer politics — ­in particular Asian American and racial politics — ­and Chinese LGBT politics. Several...

... to the spot/the hang out). Dian'er 点儿 (the spot) refers here to the cruising spot, such as parks, newspaper boards, public toilets, and bathhouses, where men are looking for sex with other men. 17 “ Tongzhi ” 同志 (comrade) has become a self-affirming term for Chinese LGBT people in recent years (see...

... heartfelt thanks. Finally, I would like to express my gratitude to the members of Come Together, an LGBT student organization at Yonsei University: I came out when I was a sophomore and their support was indispensable. This article began as a presentation...

... infected people.8 Initially, I had assumed that my previous experience in gov- ernmental and activist work on LGBT and AIDS health in China would enable me to reach people willing to share their stories with me. It turned out, however, that access...