Philosophy

Queer theory

Gender studies

Archaeology

Neoliberalism (international relations)

Anthropology

Orientalism

Globalization

Universalism

Heteronormativity

Politics

Political science

Epistemology

Sociology

Temporality

Ethnography

Glocalization

Embodied cognition

Queer

Social science

History

Sexualities

This study extends the “Queer” Asia s critique to deconstruct the coloniality of queer theory in transnational Taiwan. Focusing on Duggan’s critique of homonormativity, I used 22-months ethnographic data to examine its Taiwanese glocalization and influences on American scholars’ denigration of Taiwanese marriage equality campaigns. I argue that the glocalization of homonormativity theory has generated the disruption between queer theory and embodied experiences, falsely assumed the universalism of queer theory, and failed to recognize practices of diversifying families and resistance to neoliberalism. The homonormativity glocalization also produces “radical queer temporality” and Orientalist double standards that collude with imperialist epistemology. I conclude with strategies for a decolonial queer theory.

The coloniality of queer theory: The effects of “homonormativity” on transnational Taiwan’s path to equality