Is same-sex marriage in Taiwan doomed to lead to the normalization of gays and lesbians?

2019-10-30

講者：Alain Naze (哲學教師)
回應人： 劉永晧 世新大學廣播電視電影學系副教授

日期：10/30 （三）
時間：14：00-17：00
地點：HA Building 2, F106A (交大人社二館 106A室)  

In France, the carrying of same-sex marriage has often been pictured as a progress for gays and lesbians, some people even saying that this legal advance promoting equality would be an extension of the so-called movements for « sexual freedom » in the 1970' – or even their completion.

However, a comparative analysis of  these two periods (the 1970' and the present) gives prominence strong disparities in terms of demands addressed by gays and lesbians and one might consider that a radical reversal of perspective has taken place in the meantime: some sort of a care for « respectability » seems to have come to light, a complete breach, in the French context, with what the gay philosopher Guy Hocquenghem would have called, in the 1970', a « rogue » (delinquent) homosexuality. 

Could some specificities of the local situation in Taiwan make that maybe  same-sex marriage would be an exception to such a « normalization » of the gays and lesbians?

Alain Naze is a Doctor in Philosophy (Paris 8 St-Denis). He graduated in 2010 with a thesis on Walter Benjamin and Pier Paolo Pasolini – « Time and narrative » in their respective works.
He is presently teaching philosophy in the good city of Landerneau, in Brittany, after spending three years, teaching philosophy too, on the island of Mayotte, a French colony on the archipelago of the Comoro, East Africa. He wrote several books and many articles, mostly on Walter Benjamin, Michel Foucault, films, gender and gay issues. A book he published in 2017 made him notorious in France: its title is Manifesto against the gay normalization, a very explicit title, no need to explain... 

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*French and English Lecture (此場次為法文與英文演講)

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