"The Postlonial Problem for Global Gay Rights" by Stewart Chang

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As the Uned Stat and Europe have progrsed to the issue of same-sex marriage, untri that are still workg through antecent issu, such as the crimalizatn of anti-sodomy laws, are regard by ternatnal gay rights advot as laggg behd the tim. This often leads to prsur om the Wtern-domated ternatnal muny for reform. Through this Article, Profsor Stewart Chang ntribut to the ongog scholarly bate between ternatnal human rights activists who sire to advance gay rights by utilizg the same rights-based mols that prevail the Uned Stat and Europe and crics of this approach who em the universal imposn of Wtern standards for gay rights upon non-Wtern untri as nstutg a new type of imperialism and subordatn. This Article analyz, for the first time, the qutn of neolonialism wh the global gay rights movement om a postlonial Asian perspective, focg on the recent legal dispute regardg Sgapore's anti-sodomy statute, Penal Co Sectn 377A, as a se study. Profsor Chang challeng the one-size-fs-all mol for gay rights advocy often prumed by Wtern human rights activists, particularly light of the lonial histori of many Eastern Hemisphere natns. For s postlonial ernance, Sgapore adopted a hybridized strategy that paradoxilly embraced Wtern palistic enomic growth while simultaneoly rejectg some major liberal valu associated wh palism. In particular, ncepts such as ernment nonterference and dividual privacy, which are re tes of Wtern gay rights disurse, have proved problematic Sgapore. Durg lonizatn, Sgapore purposely signed some of s laws to rever and reflect digeno Asian valu, which eventually veloped to a form of cultural natnalism that distguished om a perceived moral dulgency of the Wt. He explor how this postlonial tensn played a ccial role the choice by the Sgaporean Parliament to uphold 377A durg the reforms to the Penal Co 2007, but was largely ignored the subsequent nstutnal challenge agast 377A the urts. The nstutnal challenge was premised on a Wtern liberal mol of dividual negative rights, which he argu led to s failure as a neolonial venture bee threatened to disunt and subordate the will of the digeno Asian culture. Instead, Profsor Chang propos applyg tersectnal analysis om Cril Race Theory to fd a method for advancg gay rights postlonial Asian natns, such as Sgapore, that is sensive to not only the cultural nuanc, but also the postlonial sensibili of lol digeno populatns. The

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SENOR CHANG'S "HA, GAY!"

While he revealed that he was gay only the closg scene of the seri, there have been multiple hts about his non-heterosexualy: In Spanish 101 and Advanced Crimal Law Chang displays an overt fondns for a stunt named "Toby" who ss ont. He bsh his cheek both tim In... * professor chang gay *

Senor Chang's "Gayyyyy" refers to a quote attributed to the fictnal character Señor Ben Chang the TV s seri Communy.

Due to Chang's unual enunciatn, upled by his qutnably sophomoric word choice, the scene has lent self to many parodi and YouTubePoop remix on s like Tumblr and YouTube.

In one of the scen, Jeff Wger (Joel McHale) tri to spire his stunts by tellg the class that "the most important tool is rpect, " to which Señor Ben Chang (played by Ken Jeong) simply retorts "Ha, gayyyyy! On November 5th, 2010, webic artist Stephen Gillan referenced Señor Chang's quote his Antics Comic seri, which beme wily known as the Homophobic Seal among the fans.

QUEERG CHE CROSSGS LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY JAMAI: LARRY CHANG AND THE GAY FREEDOM MOVEMENT

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In this particular ic, two men ci to embrace each other an arctic blizzard orr to survive the ld, when the homophobic seal sudnly appears out of nowhere and yells "GAAAAAAYYYY. One of the first notable remix based on Señor Chang's "Gayyyyy" soundbe was upload by YTPMV artist zumspeedboi on June 21st, 2011. Former Co-Chair of the New York Cy Gay and Lbian Anti-Vlence Project, Profsor Chang worked hard to bat some of New York Cy’s most heo cints of btaly and to ph for legislative remedi through the passage of anti-hate crim statut.

As the Uned Stat and Europe have progrsed to the issue of same-sex marriage, untri that are still workg through antecent issu, such as the crimalizatn of anti-sodomy laws, are regard by ternatnal gay rights advot as laggg behd the tim.

Through this Article, Profsor Stewart Chang ntribut to the ongog scholarly bate between ternatnal human rights activists who sire to advance gay rights by utilizg the same rights-based mols that prevail the Uned Stat and Europe and crics of this approach who em the universal imposn of Wtern standards for gay rights upon non-Wtern untri as nstutg a new type of imperialism and subordatn. This Article analyz, for the first time, the qutn of neolonialism wh the global gay rights movement om a postlonial Asian perspective, focg on the recent legal dispute regardg Sgapore's anti-sodomy statute, Penal Co Sectn 377A, as a se study. Profsor Chang challeng the one-size-fs-all mol for gay rights advocy often prumed by Wtern human rights activists, particularly light of the lonial histori of many Eastern Hemisphere natns.

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