What is it about?
This paper, simply speaking, is looking at how both discourses of LGBT rights and Asian values interact on a popular level. Drawing upon LGBT rights in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore, this article critically reviews how global LGBT politics is localised in these societies influenced by Confucianism.
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Why is it important?
Along a perpetual competition between the universalism and cultural relativism of human rights, this article not only identifies the pitfalls of ‘Asian values’ from a cosmopolitan perspective but also contributes to a queered approach to human rights-holders against homonationalism.
Perspectives
Law, especially from the international human rights regime, is a direct reference on which minority groups rely when it comes to ‘non-discrimination’, and from this standpoint, it is necessary to reconsider how an emergent 'rights' regime transnationally affects and is affected by local responses.
Dr Po-Han Lee
University of Sussex
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This page is a summary of: LGBT rights versus Asian values: de/re-constructing the universality of human rights, The International Journal of Human Rights, July 2016, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/13642987.2016.1192537.
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