A look back at the evolutn of gay rights Taiwan — and the growth of the movement’s opposn.
Contents:
- WHY GAY-IENDLY TAIWAN IS A CREATIVE HAVEN FOR LGBTQ ART
- GAY RIGHTS, TAIWAN PENNCE AND ANTI-NUCLEAR ISSU THE PRINTIAL ELECTN
- A CLOSER LOOK AT GAY RIGHTS CHA
- GAY RIGHTS CHA GET FILLIP OM TAIWAN SAME-SEX MARRIAGE LG
- ON TAKG GAY RIGHTS FROM TAIPEI TO BEIJG: DON’T CALL IT A ‘MOVEMENT’
- GAY RIGHTS ON THE MARCH TAIWAN
- 'HAPPILY EVER AFTER' ELUS TAIWAN, A YEAR AFTER ASIA'S FIRST GAY MARRIAG
- 10 REASONS WHY TAIWAN IS THE BEAN OF GAY RIGHTS ASIA
- GAY TAIWAN: ASIA’S BT STATN FOR LGBTQ+ TRAVELERS
WHY GAY-IENDLY TAIWAN IS A CREATIVE HAVEN FOR LGBTQ ART
On May 17, Taiwan beme the first Asia to legalize same-sex marriage. Many hope this will further the gay rights movement across Asia. * gay rights taiwan *
Beyond the legal rights of exprsn enshred s nstutn, Taiwan ranked 34th the world (and 2nd Asia, after Thailand) a gay happs x based on the experienc of 115, 000 men om around the world.
GAY RIGHTS, TAIWAN PENNCE AND ANTI-NUCLEAR ISSU THE PRINTIAL ELECTN
When Che gay rights activist Peng Yanhui heard that Taiwan had approved a bill legalizg same-sex marriage on May 17 as he board a flight, he burst to tears of joy. * gay rights taiwan *
And 2017, jt months after Taiwan’s nstutnal urt paved the way for the marriage law by clarg same-sex marriage a legal right, the gay art scene was afford rare mastream attentn wh the exhibn “Spectrosynthis – Asian LGBTQ Issu and Art Now. One of his most recent projects saw Su film unrealized scen om “The Glamoro Boys of Tang, ” a homoerotic fantasy movie featurg i, killgs and an exorcism, that was released whout parts of the origal screenplay, as Su believ they were emed appropriate nservative 1980s Taiwan. It was this that saw the openg of LGBTQ-iendly venu like IT Park and the G G Bookstore, which has hoed a gallery space Taipei for more than 20 years, alongsi an explosn gay lerature, nightlife and amic disurse.
Organizers of a 2003 exhibn of works ma by gay artists durg nsensual art therapy even felt necsary to clarify the show’s not: “This exhibn is not to show LGBT people need to be cured. At the other end of the spectm, homosexualy remas a punishable crime parts of Southeast Asia, cludg Malaysia, Bnei and some areas of Indonia.
A CLOSER LOOK AT GAY RIGHTS CHA
Taiwan legalized gay marriage 2019, beg the only place Asia that allows . But until now, those married upl uld only adopt children related to one of the partners. * gay rights taiwan *
In between, there are a number of plac that ostensibly allow gay art to be displayed, but where censorship remas a signifint barrier. Meanwhile Sgapore, where artists are permted to exhib LGBTQ-themed work spe the fact that gay sex is illegal (a law that is rarely enforced), censorship is also mon.
Wh Taiwan attemptg to tablish self as a mercial arts statn (the lnch of the Taipei Dangdai art fair 2019 signaled that the island may hope to challenge Hong Kong’s domatn of the Asian market), the island’s gay artists uld, turn, benef om the growg ternatnal profile.
For the 41-year-old artist and photographer, this curatorial cisn reprents a wir problem facg the arts Taiwan: That gay male artists ntue to take a disproportnate chunk of the limelight. “The majory of curators and llectors are male, and, om my perspective, they are more terted gay male art, ” she said, addg: “We all notice that there are a lot of gay artists ( Taiwan), but if a curator asks, ‘Who’s a lbian artist?
GAY RIGHTS CHA GET FILLIP OM TAIWAN SAME-SEX MARRIAGE LG
After Taiwan’s same-sex marriage lg, gay rights once aga beme a hot topic maland Cha * gay rights taiwan *
Even the ncept of LGBTQ art self may be a generalizatn said Tzeng, who don’t regnize the existence of a gay art “scene, ” per se, Taipei. ” But whether that means anizatns like his might, an ial future, no longer need to exist, is a moot pot given the wispread challeng facg Asia’s gay artists, he said.
While Taiwan 2019 beme the first jurisdictn the regn to legalize same-sex marriage, the legal change stopped short of grantg full rights of adoptn to homosexual upl.
ON TAKG GAY RIGHTS FROM TAIPEI TO BEIJG: DON’T CALL IT A ‘MOVEMENT’
Taiwan's cisn givg same-sex upl the right to marry has proved a shot the arm for the gay rights movement Asia, but is likely to be many years before Cha approv siar measur, amid ep-rooted opposn some quarters. * gay rights taiwan *
As of 2022, six untri' legal s specifilly prcribe the ath penalty for the "crime" of homosexualy and another five untri allow for the possibily of the ath penalty. LGBT and LGBTQ+ have several addnal variatns, cludg LGBTQ, LGBTQIA, LGBTQIA+, and 2SLGBTQIA+ (Two-spir, lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, qutng, tersex, and asexual, wh the + reprentg pansexual, agenr, genr queer, bigenr, genr variant, and pangenr). Two of the most notable advancements LGBTQI+ rights the US recent s are the legalizatn of gay marriage and the legalizatn of adoptn of children by same-sex upl.
GAY RIGHTS ON THE MARCH TAIWAN
Lai Jeng-jer, a lear on gay rights Taiwan who now liv Beijg, discs the progrs he’s seen on the maland, as well as the limatns. * gay rights taiwan *
Gay marriage legalizatn expand om one state 2004 to all fifty stat 2015 through feral urt lgs, state urt lgs, state legislatn, and direct popular vot.
Acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn's annual report State-Sponsored Homophobia, same-sex nduct was crimalized 67 of the Uned Natns' 193 member stat 2020 and was facto illegal two more. In other untri, homosexualy is technilly legal, but promotn of "nontradnal sexual relatns", whether by anizatns or dividuals, is illegal. Moreover, another five untri have laws which are ls specific the outlawg and sentencg of homosexualy, but which leave the ath penalty available.
'HAPPILY EVER AFTER' ELUS TAIWAN, A YEAR AFTER ASIA'S FIRST GAY MARRIAG
A legal loophole Taiwan means that while sgle LGBT people n adopt a child, married gay upl nnot. A recent urt se provis some hope for change, but do not set a precent. * gay rights taiwan *
2022's iendlit natn for LGBTQ+ travelers is Canada, the first untry outsi of Europe (and the fourth untry the world) to legalize gay marriage, which did on July 20, 2005.
Another of the world's most gay-iendly untri, Swen has legalized both marriage and adoptn for same-sex upl, stalled anti-discrimatn protectns for both genr inty and sexual orientatn, end nstutnal protectns agast discrimatn, and crimalized vlence agast LGBTQ+ people. Individuals arrted for homosexual nduct are often subjected to addnal mistreatment, om torture and forced anal exams by shady law enforcement officials to oversized sentenc or extend pre-trial rceratn that n last for years. The move at a moment of change for LGBTQ rights Asia: even as natns like India–whose Supreme Court crimalized homosexualy 2018–have expand rights, others cludg Malaysia, Indonia and Bnei have cracked down.
10 REASONS WHY TAIWAN IS THE BEAN OF GAY RIGHTS ASIA
This is a parative study between Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan that explor the differenc of each society's valu and polics to unrstand their current gay rights rerd. In light of Taiwan's legalizatn of marriage equaly 2019, this study par all three untri to fd the differenc that possibly ed this progrsn of gay rights Taiwan, but not South Korea and Japan, which are notor for their apathy toward the LGBTQ muny. * gay rights taiwan *
) The social scuffle me amid a wave of censorship of LGBTQ subjects on social media Cha, where homosexualy is legal but same-sex marriag are not.
GAY TAIWAN: ASIA’S BT STATN FOR LGBTQ+ TRAVELERS
This year’s Taipei Pri para at a pivotal moment the island’s gay rights movement. * gay rights taiwan *
When Che gay rights activist Peng Yanhui heard that Taiwan had approved a bill legalizg same-sex marriage on May 17 as he board a flight, he burst to tears of joy.
In the unlikely scenar that the Che ernment did embrace homosexualy, wouldn’t be unprecented, acrdg to Steve Tsang, director of the Cha Instute at the Universy of London.
Thoands cludg members of the LGBT muny took part the first gay pri para held on October 26, 2019 after Taiwan legalised same-sex marriag, the culmatn of a three- fight for equaly. Appreciatg that Tsai Ing-wen risked her polil reer to support same-sex marriage, many young people and gay rights groups form the firmt support for Tsai Ing-wen’s re-electn. No doubt aims to further label the gay muny and rerce outsirs’ imprsn that Taiwan’s gay muny ndon the illegal street vlence of Hong Kong’s ‘fighter group’ of monstrators.
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When ‘supportg Hong Kong’ and gay rights groups are lked by a simple slogan, no doubt aims to further label the gay muny and rerce outsirs’ imprsn that Taiwan’s gay muny ndon the illegal street vlence of Hong Kong’s ‘fighter group’ of monstrators.
When Taiwan beme the first place Asia to allow same-sex marriage last year, universy profsor Lois was among thoands of gay people who cheered and waved rabow flags on the streets of the pal Taipei. * gay rights taiwan *
(REUTERS/Eason Lam)In the same way, when the gay muny gratefully “vot iendly” next year’s electn, supportg Tsai Ing-wen and the pan-Green Coaln Legislative Commtee while choosg not to review or even to ignore the erng and moral ficienci of the DPP the past three years — cludg the much-cricised culture of polil patronage and the ntroversial amendments to the Referendum Act that is said to prive people of the right to exercise direct mocracy (by uplg referendums om natnal electns and stipulatg that they are to be held biannually, startg 2021) — progrsive valu will then lose their ratnal basis and their pacy to enurage progrs through learng prompted by reflectn. It is only when different progrsive valu are no longer artificially lked together by a specific electn, when progrsive valu are based on ratnal thkg, and when gay rights groups are no longer held hostage by the pury of iology and forced to support specific polil parti or policians, that progrsive valu may be tly manifted.
And I’m really sorry if I’m havg movie spoilers my answers would happen if “Buffy the Vampire Slayer, ” two of the vampir met high school and had a gay romance? Undoubtedly, agast the backdrop of globalizatn, maland Cha is fluenced by the ternatnal trend of the gay rights movement as well, though the spe, speed, and gree of such fluence uld be argued.
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After 2001, then, homosexualy was no longer fed as a crime or an illns the official ntext, and sce then, Cha’s LGBT muny has been able to fd a fortable (paratively speakg), semi-overt livg space: Gay parks and gay bars are boomg Che big ci; the topic of homosexuals is no longer a taboo for Che media.