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, by HIOE Brian
This is a No Man is an Island film review written in collaboration with Cinema Escapist as part of coverage of the 2024 Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival. Keep an eye out for more!
THE TIME OF HUAN NAN is a multifaceted movie. Though the aim of the film–to depict the historic Huan (…)
, by CHEN Yo-Ling
YESTERDAY AFTERNOON, on the first day of Russia’s presidential election, civil society groups hosted a solidarity protest for Russia’s LGBT+ community outside of the Moscow-Taipei Coordination Commission on Economic and Cultural Cooperation’s (MTC) office in Taipei. The protest, organized by the (…)
, by CHEN Yo-Ling
This past Wednesday, the Taiwan Women’s Link (TWL) hosted a press conference calling for opening up access to assisted reproduction and decoupling the issue of surrogacy from amendments to the Assisted Reproduction Act (ARA). As part of the press conference, TWL released a petition calling for (…)
, by Taipei Times
Despite a crushing election defeat, Abbygail Wu (吳伊婷), Taiwan’s first transgender legislative candidate, has vowed to continue fighting to eliminate the burden of undergoing gender reassignment surgery placed on those wanting to legally change their gender.
In the Jan. 13 election, Wu’s Green (…)
, by CHEN Yo-Ling
IN THE PAST three months, transgender issues have gained unprecedented attention within third party politics in Taiwan, with the Taiwan Solidarity Union (TSU) rebranding itself as the only political party against abolishing compulsory surgery for changing one’s legal gender and Green Party (…)
, by HIOE Brian
THE TAIWAN SOLIDARITY UNION (TSU), which currently holds no seats in the Legislative Yuan but has historically positioned itself as a politically conservative pan-Green party, has taken a stance against trans rights with recent actions.
In particular, the TSU recently held a press conference (…)
, by HIOE Brian
The annual pride parade that takes in Taipei at the end of October, Taiwan LGBT Pride, was held today. An estimated 176,000 participated in the parade according to organizers, which is up from 120,000 last year. This was the twenty-first year that the pride parade was held. The uptick in (…)
, by YO-LING Daniel
《等一下，我的身分證字號是不是給錯了！？》(hereafter referred to as 《等一下》) is the first part of an autobiographical solo performance trilogy written and performed by Gia-Yeh Huang (黃家曄), the first publicly out trans man in Taiwan to run for office during the 2022 local elections for a Hsinchu City Council seat, and (…)
, by YO-LING Daniel
DIRECTOR CHANG YI-CHING’S (張伊青) new documentary, 《做自己的條件》Be Myself, made its world premiere on June 30th at the 25th annual Taipei Film Festival. Be Myself documents video editor Hsin-yu’s (欣嶼) journey through gender affirming surgeries and changing his legal gender from female to male. Chang’s (…)
, par HIOE Brian
THE TAIWANESE LEGISLATURE passed amendments to allow for gay couples to jointly adopt children who are not biological relations earlier this week, amending existing laws regulating adoption. Previously, it was required that for gay couples to jointly adopt, the child had to be the biological (…)
, by HEFLIN Michael, TENG Joyce
In 40 percent of the world’s countries, homosexual conduct remains criminalized. Still, there are signs of progress. After a protracted struggle—in courts, through a national referendum, and in the legislature—Taiwan became the first place in Asia to recognize the right to same-sex marriage. (…)
Taiwan’s parliament voted to legalise same-sex marriage on Friday, becoming the first in Asia to do so.
Lawmakers had a two-year window to make a decision after Taiwan’s constitutional court ruled that same-sex couples had a right to marry in 2017.
Tens of thousands of supporters waiting (…)
, by HORTON Chris
Supporters uneasy ahead of parliamentary debate on marriage equality bills.
Two years ago, Taiwan’s constitutional court made a historic ruling, declaring the country’s civil code, which posited that marriage can only be between a man and a woman, unconstitutional.
The court gave Taiwan’s (…)
, by KELLEHER Patrick, Press Agencies
LGBT activists said it was a major blow to the island’s reputation as a rights trailblazer.
Voters in Taiwan have rejected same-sex marriage in a referendum, a setback to LGBT couples hoping their island will be the first country in Asia to let same-sex couples share child custody and (…)
, by KAMIL Josh
When gay activist Chi Chia-Wei stepped into the Taipei District Court in 1986 demanding the notarisation of his marriage licence, he was thrown out and not long after imprisoned for several months on a trumped-up burglary charge.
Even before this, Chia-Wei had done the truly unthinkable. He (…)
, by KAMIL Josh
When gay activist Chi Chia-Wei stepped into the Taipei District Court in 1986 demanding the notarisation of his marriage licence, he was thrown out and not long after imprisoned for several months on a trumped-up burglary charge.
Even before this, Chia-Wei had done the truly unthinkable. He (…)
, by HAAS Benjamin
Landmark ruling will mean country is first in Asia to allow gay couples to marry and cements reputation as beacon of liberalism.
Taiwan is to become the first country in Asia to legalise same-sex marriage, after the island’s constitutional court ruled current laws defining unions as between a (…)
, by HIOE Brian
Ultimately an Appeal to Leftist Orientalism
One suspects vaguely that irrespective of its content, Petrus Liu’s Queer Marxism in Two Chinas would have found success, simply on the basis of its title containing the words “Queer,” “Marxism,” and “China”. These are, of course, all hot buzzwords (…)
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