英文摘要 |
It is as important to ask can the homosexual voice out as in what ways they voiceout after the LGBT movement and discourse have been developing in Taiwan for twodecades. What happens after they came out? This essay ventures to explore the often-neglectednegative affectivity in the LGBT discourse via a close look on Mickey Chen’sdocumentaries, “Homosexual Trilogy”—Boys for Beauty (1998), Memorandum on Happiness(2003), and Scars on Memory (2005). By studying the strategy of coming-out andthe aftermath of coming-out displayed in the three documentaries, this essay addressesthe hierarchy and the imbalanced distribution of resources within the LGBT community.While the coming-out strategy played an important role in the early phase of theLGBT movement, it runs the risk of reinforcing the “compulsory politics of happiness”in that the negative affectivity is glossed over by the positive image of homosexualsadvocated in the LGBT movement. It is essential to bring this negative affectivity andtrauma resulted from the LGBT movement to light in order to ponder on the complexityof emotional politics and ethnic relations. In addition, this essay suggests that a diversifiedmodel of coming-out which leaves room for ambiguity can be found in Chen’s“Homosexual Trilogy” as so to offer an alternative version of family and intimacy. The potential of homosexual relationship in terms of relative is therefore extended, so as theabundance and heterogeneity of Taiwan’s local LGBT community. |