What is it about?
This paper serves as an synthesis of the insights drawing on interviews and participant observations at Taiwan LGBT Pride events, describing an ongoing coalitional politics of the social movement for sexual and gender minorities.
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Why is it important?
With the recent ‘Renaissance’ of conservatism, which combines Confucianism and Christianity, queer activism has encountered several changes and needs of re-composition. This article particularly looks at how activists negotiate and compete over constructing the discourses of sexual rights and citizenship in a context of democratic transition.
Perspectives
Gaining greater leverage and influence on society in form and essence, I consider the 'rainbow coalition', based on the pursuit of self-determination and self-liberation, has inversely provided soil for a cosmopolitan identity of Taiwaneseness to grow.
Dr Po-Han Lee
University of Sussex
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This page is a summary of: Queer activism in Taiwan: An emergent rainbow coalition from the assemblage perspective, The Sociological Review, January 2017, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0038026116681441.
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