中國古代與現社會下的女性情誼

Female Romance in Ancient and Modern Chinese Society

Fran Martin曾經提到：「每個人在不同的場合都已戴著一面具了，只是這個面具是隱形的。除非你已經出櫃了，但雖已出櫃，仍戴著出櫃的面具。」「同性戀」這個詞其實在古代中國社會並不存在，直至二十世紀這詞彙才從西方介紹引進，但這並不表示同性戀行為在古代的中國社會是不存在著。
即使在現代台灣社會中，女同志還是遭受到傳統思想的種種壓迫，女女之間的感情糾結則是透過另一種方式存在著，那就是女性情誼。本文章將討論以男同性戀為中心的中國古代社會裡，女同志始終是沒有聲音，不被重視的一群人。第二部分將主要探討中國社會下的女性情誼現象，其實是中國傳統社會下女同性戀另一種含蓄感情的表達方式，並回顧西17至20世紀的女性情誼歷史。

Everyone's already wearing a mask in any case; it's just that the mask's an invisible one, unless you're already out, but then out people ewar the out mask. Just as we designate homosexuals as a special group stigmatizes through being in the "closet," lesbians in Taiwan nowadays have been and are, in the same way, frequently oppressed by conventional society. People sttempt to police homosexuality throungh the law, education, health, etc. For example, the law does not aallow homosexual marriage, or to allow homosexuals to adopt children. In addition, the madia's reports provide a false image of homosexuailty. In the article, I will not only provide an overview of lesbian history in Taiwan, but will also address the issue of "identities" in different eras. The first section will focus primarily on the history of homosexuality in ancient Chinese culture, in particular male prostitution, male concubines, the vogue of "Xiang Gong"(相公) and so on which prove the lack of lesbianism in ancient Chinese history. I will also examine honosexual material in some literary texts. The second section will discuss queer discourses and the development of Taiwanese lesbianism from 1990s to 2000, which is the crucial era in Taiwanese lesbian movements. Through an analysis of past and present, we may understand more fully the lesbian situation, and thus look to the future of lesbia in Taiwan.