Fear of Queer Taiwan
Anti-LGBTQ Movements Between Taiwan and the U.S. Religious Right
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2026
New York University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4798-3211-8 (ISBN)
New York University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4798-3211-8 (ISBN)
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Traces the development of new anti-LGBTQ movements in Taiwan and their interactions with the U.S. Religious Right
In 2019, global media celebrated Taiwan as the first Asian country to legalize same-sex marriage. However, the pursuit of this human rights milestone spurred waves of opposition to LGBTQ rights that have fundamentally shaped the nation's democracy and its relationship with the United States. This book examines Taiwan's anti-LGBTQ movements, analyzes their rise and fall, and reveals their surprising links with American religious conservatism.
Given that Christianity is a minority religion in Taiwan and East Asia, the book seeks to answer how and why Christian-led anti-LGBTQ sentiments became so powerful in Taiwan, and how they have built transnational connections with American and other international counterparts.
Drawing on more than 100 in-depth interviews with leading figures across a wide political spectrum, and two years of cumulative ethnographic observation in both Taiwan and the United States, Kao reveals that moral conservatism has been flowing across borders and adapting to contemporary socio-political institutions as it seeks to protect its moral territories and expand its ideological power. Exploring the transnational ebbs and flows of moral conservatism as a direct response to rising pro LGBTQ liberalism and queer radicalism, Fear of Queer Taiwan offers a groundbreaking theoretical framework to understand conservatism's fluidity in today's ever-evolving global landscape of gender and sexual politics.
In 2019, global media celebrated Taiwan as the first Asian country to legalize same-sex marriage. However, the pursuit of this human rights milestone spurred waves of opposition to LGBTQ rights that have fundamentally shaped the nation's democracy and its relationship with the United States. This book examines Taiwan's anti-LGBTQ movements, analyzes their rise and fall, and reveals their surprising links with American religious conservatism.
Given that Christianity is a minority religion in Taiwan and East Asia, the book seeks to answer how and why Christian-led anti-LGBTQ sentiments became so powerful in Taiwan, and how they have built transnational connections with American and other international counterparts.
Drawing on more than 100 in-depth interviews with leading figures across a wide political spectrum, and two years of cumulative ethnographic observation in both Taiwan and the United States, Kao reveals that moral conservatism has been flowing across borders and adapting to contemporary socio-political institutions as it seeks to protect its moral territories and expand its ideological power. Exploring the transnational ebbs and flows of moral conservatism as a direct response to rising pro LGBTQ liberalism and queer radicalism, Fear of Queer Taiwan offers a groundbreaking theoretical framework to understand conservatism's fluidity in today's ever-evolving global landscape of gender and sexual politics.
Ying-Chao Kao is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Virginia Commonwealth University.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 19.5.2026 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Hauntings: Queer/Trans Studies in Religion |
| Zusatzinfo | 7 b/w images; 2 tables |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4798-3211-1 / 1479832111 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4798-3211-8 / 9781479832118 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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