"Taipei LGBT Civil Right Movement Festival" as a Social Movement
Date Issued
2007
Date
2007
Author(s)
Hsu, Wen-Chuan
DOI
zh-TW
Abstract
“ Taipei LGBT Civil Right Movement Festival”
as a Social Movement
Hsu, Wen Chuan
Graduate Institute of Building and Urban Planning
College of Engineering
National Taiwan University
Abstract
This study attempts to interpret and record how Taipei LGBT Civil Right Movement Festival came about, what kind of relation it has with the government, and how it has developed since 2000. In addition to political opportunitities, mobilizing structure, and framing process based on theories of McAdam, McCarthy, and Zald, heterosexual space is also employed as the fourth dimension to help discuss Taipei LGBT Civil Right Movement Festival.
There are four findings in this reasearch. The first is the relationship between LGBT Civil Right Movement and the political opportunities. LGBT Civil Right Movement is the product of cultural governance by the public-private partnership between the Taipei City Government and the private capital. The government paid little, but its participation was symbolic of the official support for gay/lesbian activities. Mayor Ma kept his promise to support LGBTIQ groups under the pressure from the internal civil service system and religious groups. However, except for the first Director of Civil Affairs who proposed to hold this activity, follow-up administrators do not interact with gay/lesbian groups very well. There is no clear LGBTIQ policy in Taipei. Religious groups and LGBTIQ groups seek respective support from different political parties, and thus create conflict and tension.
Second is the relationship between LGBT Civil Right Movement and the moblizing structures. This part can be divided into three sections. First, I focus on the key role of the hotline, the way of mobilizing social groups, the power of the Internet, and the vision of future development. Next, I discuss the relationship between LGBT Civil Right Movement and the framing structure. That is to discuss how the local culture and identity help to create project identity, international linkage, and pursuit of civil rights. LGBT Civil Right Movement has reversed the meanings of heterosexual space. It accumulates the energy for LGBTIQ groups to come out, integrets the network, and raises its own popularity. LGBT Civil Right Movement has become an identity reference for LGBTIQ, and has attracted more people to join in.
At present, LGBT Civil Right Movement has completed its phased-mission. I try to propose a rather radical way for LGBTIQ movements. There are still high diversities in sexual imagination and practice among LGBTIQ groups. Maybe such diversities provide the greatest possibility for defense and transformation of social relations. It serves as a different way of empowerment from fighing against normal gender regulations directly.
Subjects
台北同玩節
熱線
動員結構
框架過程
台北市民政局
Taipei LGNT Civil Right Movement (Festival)
hotline
political opportunities
moblizing structures
framing processes
Department of Civil Affairs
SDGs
Type
thesis
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