...Sara L. Friedman; Yi-Chien Chen Abstract This article analyzes the tension between marriage and family rights in the context of Taiwan's marriage equality movement and the then-pending legalization of same-sex marriage following a 2017 Constitutional Court ruling. It focuses on the efforts...

..., the latter with the movement for same-sex marriage and participation in the armed services in the United States. This essay extends the application of these terms to Singapore, where between 2001 and 2004 the state tentatively and partially relaxed its restrictions on homosexual activity (e.g., the “Nation...

.... The article foregrounds pathways to parenthood and struggles for legal recognition among queers in a variety of family arrangements, including those that do not fit within the conventional representation of a cohabiting and marriage-desiring same-sex couple with children. Parenthood is a gendered...

..., across East Asia. From new household forms—including divorcees, single parents, adults living alone or with chosen kin, same-sex couples, and transnational marriages—to shifting ideologies of how families should be organized and kinship ties recognized, families have been at the center of substantial...

... crisis are also apparent in the 2016 Seoul Western District Court decision that ruled against marriage equality in Korea. Lawyers filed a lawsuit with the Seoul Western District Court in 2014 on behalf of a same-sex couple seeking legal recognition for their marriage (Agence France-Presse in Seoul 2016...

... as “strange,” a maneuver common among texts of this period that touch on same-sex desire. Shen seems, in fact, to attempt to assimilate same-sex marriage to cross-sexed marriage, using such terms as son-in-law (xu) and husband and wfe (kang Zi...

... people) During a cross-­examination session with the Minister of Public Health, a certain leg- islator who thought same-­sex marriage had already been legalized in Tai- wan, said “Gays can’t lay eggs” and “Legalizing gay marriage will result...

... and women are criticized not so much for their extramarital affairs as for an exclusive preoccupation with sex. The depiction of female lovers sacrificing for selfish men drives home the same point. Da Qing reported a very telling story...

.... But whether they operate or merely patronize sex establishments, chinkao men always keep silent on the subject of conjugal sexuality. Not Bao I Same Bed, Different Dreams 49 1 one chinkao man or woman ever...

... heterosexually married, which was compulsory in the Mao years. These men did not see their marriage with women and their sex with men as mutually exclusive. In their understanding, heterosexual marriage was a rite of passage for every man, which would not preclude same-sex activities. 19 The final version...

... as a surprisingly early example of an interventionist tactic for new coalitions and imaginations across the strai(gh)ts.17 If the history of the queer Chinese novel does not reflect a unilinear development from same-­sex eroticism to a modern homosexual...

... of Vietnamese men due to the short- age of women caused by marriage out-­migration. Concerns over men’s abil- ity to marry are exacerbated by the recent increase in sex ratios at birth due to the practice of sex-­selective abortion, which has created...

...; everyone would end up crying and weeping. At the Pink Space meeting, they could have a space to laugh and that was really important. After the meeting, people were saying things like We are the same! There is no difference between HIV- positive and lesbians! At another meeting with sex workers, HIV...

... are either already fallen or at risk of becoming mad or murderesses. Sexual- ity, or pleasurable sexuality of any kind, seems to be an all-­male domain that is either bad polygamous and promiscuous consumption, or good procre- ative sex in marriage...

... and epilepsy. Pearson’s essay “Socialism and Problems of Sex” had been translated from the Japanese versionbyDaiJitaointhepreviousyear,1919,andappearedinXingqipinglun in 1920.86 In 1924, Zhou Jianren translated the same essay from an unknown Sakamoto...

...- ment” provided at tourist sex sites in the Philippines and at nightclubs in Japan may not be the same. Just as what “karaoke bar” signifies differs from society to society — from a singing venue for workers, friends, and families...

... of the same generation or of improper kinship relation;48 and proscribing explicit talk about sexuality with members of the opposite sex. Close, public affection and touching and private, frank talk about sexuality was reserved for same- sex age-mates...

... intelligible the par- ticularities of same-sex desiring relations within spaces of homosociality and presumed heterosexuality, and, on the other hand, it deliberately wrenches particular scenes and moments out of context and extends them...

... Deborah Sang, The Emerging Lesbian: Female Same-­Sex Desire in Modern China (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003); and Susan Brownell and Jeffrey N. Wasser- strom, eds., Chinese Femininities, Chinese Masculinities: A Reader (Berkeley, University...

... the authoritarian regime of the 1960s and Choo ∣∣ Selling Fantasies of Rescue 183 1970s, supported and regulated the camp town sex industry as a source of foreign currency for the national economy,7 to the extent that state officials...