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…
Australia Australia Decides: The Violence Triangle and Same-Sex Marriage October 27, 2017 0 Written by Samara Hand The same-sex marriage plebiscite now underway in Australia has, unsurprisingly, stirred much controversy. The non-binding postal survey conducted by the Australian…
LGBTQ Going abroad: A new mobility for Chinese queer women October 3, 2017 0 Written by Lucetta Y. L. Kam. As a child who growing up in China in the 1970s, I learned the term chuguo (出国) from adult conversation.…
Identity politics Being LGBTQ+: Pride and Queer Festivals in India July 26, 2017 0 Written by Sumitra Sunder. Bangalore will soon celebrate its 10th Pride Festival or Namma Pride (Kannada word meaning Our) and Karnataka Queer Habba (Kannada word meaning…
Equality Alternative Narratives from New Indian Indie Cinema July 25, 2017 0 Written by Ashvin I Devasundaram. Socio-political states of flux and volatile national zeitgeists are often engines for inventive and interrogative cinematic forms. I view India’s…
Queer Asia Gay and Indian in Malaysia? Forget it June 29, 2017 2 Written by R. Jeyathurai Backus Fire up Grindr, Hornet or Jackd, among the other gay social applications in Malaysia, and notice a commonality. For the…
