臺灣同志學：回顧與前瞻
Date Issued
2003-07-31
Date
2003-07-31
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DOI
912411H002036
Abstract
This research project results mainly in an article entitled “Queer(ing) Taiwan: Sexual Citizenship,
Nation-Building or Civil Society” published in Nüxue Xuezhi: Funü Yu Xingbie Yanjiu [Journal of
Women’s and Gender Studies] 15 (May 2003): 115-51. The article begins with a contextualist
review of Taiwan’s gay movement in the 1990s. It argues that the movement is highly dependent
upon on a self-tranformative process of the hetero-mainstream society since the lift of martial law,
which also explains its gradual inactivity near the end of the decade. However, certain contingent
changes in political opportunity since the year of 2000 initiate the so-called “civic turn” of
Taiwan’s gay movement with its emphasis on the civil rights of lesbians and gays. For the sake of
comparison and contrast, similar developments mainly in the US and the controversy surrounding
it—which can be summed up in the idea of “sexual citizen(ship)—are also examined. Finally, the
article returns to analyze the local conditions of Taiwan which may pose challenges to the new
movement of gay citizenship, the most prominent being the zest for nationalism. And it ends with
boldly proposing a positive role that could be played by Taiwan’s gay (civil) movement in the
establishment of a civil society on this island.
Subjects
gay movement
mainstream media
Lift of Martial Law
sexual citizen(ship)
nation(alism)
civil society
Publisher
臺北市：國立臺灣大學外國語文學系暨研究所
Type
report
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