LGBTQ who grew up here.
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In 2021, two years after the legalization of same-sex marriage in Taiwan, nearly 6,000 same-sex couples have tied the knot. That same year, Japan saw a historic breakthrough when the Sapporo District Court ruled that banning same-sex marriage was unconstitutional—the first such ruling in the country’s history.
Today’s East Asia may appear to be making epoch-defining progress, but every step forward has been paved by those who came before—people who have lived boldly and brilliantly through eras of repression, exclusion, and shame. It is through their relentless struggle that society has opened up, however slightly.
From The Wedding Banquet (1993) to Until Rainbow Dawn (2019), what has Taiwan and Japan gone through over the past 26 years in terms of gender and societal shifts? And as children of these histories, how much of ourselves do we see reflected on screen?
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呂欣潔
女同志。台灣人。是個有著社工認同的性別倡議運動者。講過很多演講，選過一場（輸掉的）選舉，上過很多次街頭，去過聯合國代表台灣的同志運動發聲，喜歡探討人與人之間的關係故事，夢想是人人能夠在台灣做自己。做了十幾年的同志運動，現在跟一些很棒的夥伴創了彩虹平權大平台，繼續推動台灣和亞洲的平權。
