Asia Bangladeshi queer utopia: How activists are reclaiming local narratives to empower the community November 21, 2019 0 Image Credit: UK celebrates ruling on Section 377 by British High Commission / Flickr; Licence: CC BY NC ND 2.0 Written by Ibtisam Ahmed. The current…
Article 370 Homonationalism, pinkwashing and the question of (queer) Kashmir August 28, 2019 0 Written by Sohini Chatterjee. Image Credit: Rajarshi MITRA/ Dal Lake Dreams, Flickr; Licence: CC By 2.0 Following the abrogation of Article 370 of the Constitution of…
Gender India and LGBTQ rights at the United Nations after the demise of Section 377 July 16, 2019 0 Written by Sohini Chatterjee Image Credit: British High Commission, New Delhi/Flicker; Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 When in 2003, Brazil – for the first time in the…
Asia Excerpts from a voter’s notebook: Manifesto destiny May 7, 2019 0 Written by Swarna Rajagopalan In the first week of April 2019, the Congress Party released a manifesto it had spent months preparing in consultation with…
LGBTQ The ‘Marriage’ Imagination of the Queer Communities in Asia February 15, 2018 1 Written by Hongwei Bao. With same-sex marriages soon to be legalised in Taiwan, which has instantly triggered the imagination of ‘marriage’ in Asia’s queer communities,…
LGBTQ Reclaiming LGBTQ History: Taiwanese Literature in the Period of Martial Law February 12, 2018 0 Written by Ta-Wei Chi LGBTQ history is beginning to be remembered in a variety of formats. To commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the decriminalisation of…
LGBTQ Life in Death, Life After Death: The story of Taiwan’s LGBTQ pioneer February 9, 2018 3 Written by Wing-Fai Leung. The Taiwanese writer Qiu Miaojin (1969-1995) committed suicide in Paris aged twenty-six, leaving behind a handful of short stories and two…
LGBTQ Taiwan’s place in Global Trans History February 7, 2018 2 Written by Howard Chiang A new era for trans history has arrived. Like most historical fields that emerged at the turn of the twenty-first century,…
LGBTQ Pride Online: Same-Sex Marriage and LGBTQ Activism on Social Media February 6, 2018 0 Written by Ping-Hsuan Wang The 15th Pride parade in Taipei attracted over 100,000 people in 2017 and broke all previous records for event attendance. Earlier…
LGBTQ Special Issue: LGBTQ in Taiwan February 6, 2018 1 In May 2017, Taiwan’s top court issued a landmark decision in favour of marriage equality, after ruling that Article 972 of the Civil Code, which…
