Homosexual Stori, Fay Stori: Neo-Confucian Homonormativy and Storytellg the Che Gay Communy | The Cha Quarterly | Cambridge Core

Contents:

• HOMOSEXUAL STORI, FAY STORI: NEO-CONFUCIAN HOMONORMATIVY AND STORYTELLG THE CHE GAY COMMUNY
• WHY MANY YOUNG CHE WOMEN ARE WRG GAY MALE EROTI
• HOW TO SAY "I'M GAY." MANDAR CHE.
• HOW TO SAY YOU ARE GAY CHE

HOMOSEXUAL STORI, FAY STORI: NEO-CONFUCIAN HOMONORMATIVY AND STORYTELLG THE CHE GAY COMMUNY

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“Fdg plac like GAMeBoi, where beg queer and Asian do -exist … It’s not like a 1, 000-year-old Korean cultural rual, but I uld create a new rual, ” said Ahn, a recent Friday, hundreds packed QT Nightlife’s monthly K-Pop Night at Micky’s, a Wt Hollywood gay club a block or so east om the old GAMeBoi posed for selfi a pk Barbie box wh dis balls hangg overhead. ” (Michael Owen Baker / For The Tim) Even historilly gay neighborhoods like Wt Hollywood or San Francis’s Castro district, Asian Amerins have long been ignored or fetishized, seen as feme and weak. ” Asian Amerin advocy groups cricized Duran’s remark, wh API Equaly-LA potg to the long history of discrimatn agast Asian men gay muni such as Wt Hollywood, whose clubs “ed to require three forms of photo intifitn om anyone they perceived as Asian.

WHY MANY YOUNG CHE WOMEN ARE WRG GAY MALE EROTI

Rearchers have begun to vtigate, wre and publish stori of Che lbians and gay men, non-ernmental anizatns (NGOs) have started to anize story-sharg activi for gay people and parents of tongzhi Footnote 3 (also known as tongzhi parents), cultural products – such as novels and onle vios about lbians and gay men – have emerged on the ter, and gay people have begun to tell their own stori wh the velopment of new media platforms. Footnote 6 Cght up the transnatnal flow of queer culture, gay inty, muny and activism Cha has been the rise of an assiatnist polics a neoliberal form that has domated the Wtern lbian and gay movement the past several s. Footnote 7 Focg on equal rights centred on sexualy and sexual cizenship, this neoliberal sexual polics, or what Lisa Duggan lls “homonormativy, ”Footnote 8 distguish the publicly regnized, rpectable, “good” gay om the dangero, cent, “bad” one, implyg “a normative formatn that mak homosexualy more acceptable vis-à-vis heteronormative society.

HOW TO SAY "I'M GAY." MANDAR CHE.

”Footnote 9 The emergg neoliberal, homonormative chang “have been wnsed most untri the Global North, creasgly several of the more dynamic emergg enomi the Global South … and [] a smatterg of other natns. ”Footnote 10 Unr such circumstanc, homonormativy has gaed populary and signifince related discipl such as soclogy, anthropology, human geography and terdisciplary fields cludg gay and lbian studi, queer studi, genr studi and postlonial studi. However, this procs homonormativy has creasgly e to be prented as an “all-enpassg and unassailable” ncept scribg “a homogeneo, global external enty that exists outsi all of and exerts s terrifyg, normative power on gay liv everywhere.

HOW TO SAY YOU ARE GAY CHE

”Footnote 11 In orr to crilly addrs this problem and ntribute to the emergg terdisciplary lerature on homonormativy, this rearch emphasiz the productn, circulatn and nsumptn of fay-themed homosexual stori as an analytil startg pot to pict the enunter between the neoliberal assiatnist sexual polics and neo-Confucian faism ntemporary Cha. Drawg on life-history terviews and participant observatn nducted Shenzhen, South Cha, this article foc on the val importance of fay-themed homosexual stori anizg the gay muny and shapg gay men's lived experienc Cha.

It ronat wh them as they each share an assiatnist strategy that seeks acceptance on heteronormative terms for the privileged, mastream portns of the gay muny while stigmatizg others;Footnote 14 challeng them bee of the val and plited role played by the fay shapg this strategy. As will be further elaborated, this Che versn of homonormativy that lot dividual queer sire neo-Confucian faial norms, or what we ll “neo-Confucian homonormativy, ” stctur the ntent of the fay-themed homosexual stori, shap the storytellg procs and dog so fluenc the anizatn of the Che gay muny and the lived experienc of Che gay men. This analysis, we believe, will ntribute to recent efforts to centre the Wt/Global North genr and sexualy studiFootnote 15 by openg up the possibily of theorizg homonormativy and unrstandg homosexualy om an Asian/Global South perspective.

It has bee an umbrella term “for LGBTQ assiatnist strategi based rpectabily polics, nsumerism and state regnn” – that is, a polics of gay munyFootnote 17 – and “a llectn of ternnected ials about what nstut a good gay life the ntemporary moment” – that is, a polics of gay life. First, the ial nceptualizatns of homonormativy stem om the assiatnism of lbian and gay movements the Wt, which people creasgly mand equal rights of cizenship on the grounds of beg the “same” as most heterosexuals. Wh a specific emphasis on gay life “as is lived the centers of major metropolan global ci”Footnote 20 the studi have suated themselv the social and geographil ntexts of the Wt that are characterized by the extensn of neoliberal markets and mocraci towards the cln of sexual mori as legimate members of society, Footnote 21 and have overlooked “the specific ndns which homonormative policy disurs and practic occur and are (re)produced.