...: The Lesbian, Gay, Twospirit, and Bisexual People of Color Magazine 1, no. 5: 1, 11, 28. Personal Narratives Group, eds. 1989 . Interpreting Women's Lives: Feminist Theory and Personal Narratives . Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Said , Edward 1978 . Orientalism . New York: Vintage Books...

... Press 2021 gay lesbian marriage parenthood queer rights In autumn 2012, I took part in a sightseeing trip for lesbian and gay elders hosted by a subcommittee of the oldest and largest LGBTQ+ rights group in Taiwan. 1 This was my third such trip in the span of sixteen months...

...-eventually reduced to a mere “display”- of the Enola Gay. Americans are not usually students of August 1945: A recent poll reveals that 60 percent of us do not know which president dropped the bomb on Japan and a third of us do not know...

...Lisa Rofel This essay addresses the anxiety that many urban gay men in China express about “money boys”—a term used in English to refer to male sex workers who have sex with other men for money. The essay argues that money boys are a pressing issue for Chinese gay men because homophobia...

...David L. Eng This essay examines the contemporary emergence of gay and lesbian life in the People's Republic of China through an analysis of Stanley Kwan's 2001 film Lan Yu and in relation to liberal distinctions between public space and private desires. Following anthropologist Lisa Rofel's recent...

...Josephine Chuen-juei Ho Since the lifting of martial law in 1987, Taiwan has prided itself on steady progress toward liberal democracy with an ever-broadening understanding of human rights that now allegedly includes the rights of gays and lesbians. Yet at the same time, under the child-protection...

...Norman A. Spencer “Ten Years of Queer Cinema in China” is a photo memoir with twenty photographs and commentary that documents two important cultural events rarely mentioned in US discussions of Chinese underground cinema. They are the First Chinese Gay and Lesbian Film Festival held at Beijing...

... of reality, memory, and time are significant tropes in Matsumoto's films. Bara no soretsu , for instance, set in the gay district of Tokyo, freely shifts between various points in time, mixes narrative fiction and documentary, and allows for the intermingling of the actors' own personal memories...

... to a discreet gay subculture. Singapore homosexuality LGBT rights homonationalism pinkwashing Copyright 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 The Rise and Fall of Homonationalism in Singapore John Whittier Treat Pinkwashing and homonationalism are terms associated with a left...

... and diplomatic opportunities to Taiwan, which criminalize and stigmatize, if not gayness itself, many actual queer sexual practices and preferences: “For what is the benefit of affirming the legitimacy of the gay identity, if at the same time the daily...

...Hans Tao-Ming Huang This article proposes a historically and movement-wise contextualized reading of Pai Hsien-yung's Crystal Boys , known as the first “gay” novel in Taiwan. As the novel was taken up as a signifier in the new tongzhi politics in 1990s Taiwan, the article shows, its legacy...

... commodification in the sexual economy from which this documentation of Filipino homoerotica is taken, the gay bar. As a productive space for maleness and its consumption, the lives of these machos interact with the specific material conditions of a neoliberal sexual economy reemerging in the Philippines since...

...! , filmmaker and scholar Nguyen Tan Hoang gathers the ways in which Asian men use online gay cruising sites such as grindr to play with the visibility of their racial identity in relation to the sexual practices and partners they desire. This article explores how Asian/American men use the Internet to register...

... of the social studies. Interdisciplinary in nature, the works that are embraced under lesbian and gay studies and/or queer studies are hard to define through their shared objects of study, discipline, or methodology. While engaged in what...

... and gender equality. Her films include The Lucky One (Chong er, 2012), Our Marriages: Lesbians Marry Gay Men (Yisheng qiyuan, 2013), Yvo and Chrissy (Ruci Shenghuo, 2017), and Playmates (Wanban, 2019). The Lucky One tells the story of Zhang Xi, a HIV- positive woman with only a short time to live. A kind...

... In 1999 Liu Binjian adapted it from Cui’s screenplay. I went grudgingly and only out of a sense of professional duty. The film was billed as the first gay-themed and largely gay-made dramatic feature from mainland China. But somehow...

...: Ethical Criticism, Novel Alterity, and Mori O¯ gai’s “Stereoscopic Vision” Christopher Weinberger I. Introduction Since the turn of the twenty-­first century, theories of cognition and ethics have come into the foreground of Anglophone novel studies. Many...

...- cle’s Past, won the 2001 Radio Literature Award in Germany. He is also the author of six books on criticism and theory and writes columns for four magazines. In 2002, Cui Zi’en received a Felipa Award from the Interna- tional Gay and Lesbian Human...

... always been invisible. There is no mention of homosexuality in the law, nor is there any social welfare policy related to homosexuals. In the past, the obstacles gay men and lesbians faced were pri- marily prejudice, hostility, and violence...

... and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press . Cho John (Song Pae) . 2009 . “ The Wedding Banquet Revisited: ‘Contract Marriages’ between Korean Gays and Lesbians .” Anthropological Quarterly 82 , no. 2 : 401 – 22 . Cho Pyŏng-hŭi . 2008...