Fear of Queer Taiwan: Anti-LGBTQ Movements Between Taiwan and the U.S. Religious Right (Hauntings: Queer/Trans Studies in Religion)

Traces the development of new anti-LGBTQ movements in Taiwan and their interactions with the U.S.Religious Right In 2019, global media celebrated Taiwan as the first Asian country to legalize same-sex marriage.However, the pursuit of this human rights milestone spurred waves of opposition to LGBTQ rights that have fundamentally shaped the nation's democracy and its relationship with the United States.This book examines Taiwan's anti-LGBTQ movements, analyzes their rise and fall, and reveals their surprising links with American religious conservatism.Given that Christianity is a minority religion in Taiwan and East Asia, the book seeks to answer how and why Christian-led anti-LGBTQ sentiments became so powerful in Taiwan, and how they have built transnational connections with American and other international counterparts.Drawing on more than 100 in-depth interviews with leading figures across a wide political spectrum, and two years of cumulative ethnographic observation in both Taiwan