What interested me the most in the readings from lecture 6 to 9is the reading “Not That Sort of Women’: Race, Gender, and Sexual Violence During the Memphis Riot of 1866” by Hannah Rosen. It is about the rights of women more than LGBT themes, which I was surprised to read such a reading in this class. Moreover, I was shocked by the fact that some people thought black women were “prostitutes” just because they did not share same race. This reading gives me an idea of distrust that built on the genders and races. In fact, “This logic dovetailed with widespread imagery representing black women sexually indiscriminate , consenting to and even pursuing sexual activity with white men, and thus lacking “feminine” virtue.” shows women’s perspectives of this riot were very negative, and can not be forgiven.
I think such discrimination happened on genders might lead the LGBT community to feel same sex is more attractive, and also create a desire of living as other genders. This reading is a history of African American women, and it illuminated my new perspective of the history of LGBT in my future archives. I would like to find a real event that does not have to related to LGBT, but may lead to the finding of LGBT.
I agree with Hannah Rosen for the rights of women, however, it is difficult to define “women rights” on the concept of “LGBT”. So in the future item, I might select an event that is more related to LGBT rather than “women rights“ even how much I tried to find an event that is not directly related to LGBT concepts.
According to Pew Research Center in 2013, 21% of the populations think the society should accept homosexuality. This number is less than the numbers compare to South Korea and Japan in East Asia.
This is a timeline of the history of LGBT in mainland, China. It published in December 22, 2015 by Jack Smith in the website of TimeOut Beijing. It showed that China became homophobia since it opened Silk Road. Many new ideas came from foreigns to China, as well as homophobia. It provided a history outline of China.
This is an overview of the LGBT history of China in this archive, and it gives comparisons between the timelines from Spain and South Korea. Since it is a timeline, it gives the readers a quick idea of how Chinese people think about LGBT.
This article was published in March 24, 2010 by Tom Mountford from OutRight organization of human rights for LGBT. It insisted homosexuality became legal in 1997, and removed from the list of mental illnesses in 2001. Before 1997, none of the nations could talk about homosexuals in the public, it was strictly illegal and unacceptable things. However, after the 2001, people still could not openly reveal the identity and talk about it. This article provided more information about that time regards the education, society, health, laws, and more.
I put this in my archive because it is a big fact that China legalized the homosexuality in late 20th century. It shows a great difference from other East Asia countries and western countries. Even though those countries prohibited homosexuality, there were still some resources about LGBT community at that time in online. However, Chine did not have any of the resources as I researched, which shows the strong disagreement towards LGBT community in China.
This is a video published in October 8th, 2015 by Channel4.com. It talks about a cure for homosexuality in China, even after 2001. This tells the readers that even after China removed homosexuality from list of mental illnesses, people still believe that it is a mental illness, and it should be cured. Shock Therapy is the most common way to cure the “illness”.
It is an important item in my archive to compare the reality of homosexuality in China compares to all other countries. Even though it legalized homosexuality, it is still an unnatural act in China. This is a completely different reactions from Western countries. But in some point, shared the similarity with Japan.
In 2013, 60% of the population of United States think the society should accept homosexuality (Pew Research Center, 2013). United State has lots of LGBT history, and it is a place where most of the people will study LGBT community.
Without a doubt, Stonewall Riots was the first event that gay people revolted against the polices in a way against to the society. This video was published in May 31, 2017 by History.com Editors. It was an important history of LGBT history in the United States because this event evoked lots of important LGBT movements in United States and around the world.
This item belongs to my archive because it showed the historical moment of LGBT community in United States, and importantly, the date of this riots was happening from June 29, 1969. At that time, Canada was slowly accepted the homosexuality in the society, which illustrated a comparison. However, it gives another comparisons between East Asia. East Asia started to be actived as an LGBT community was later than 1969, while United States started many gay rights movements after Stonewall Riots.
This picture comes from an article “Billy Tipton and the Question of Gender” published in September 9, 2017 by Laura Mills. Billy Tipson was a transgender jazz pianist, who hided his identity until his death. His career was around 1950s, which at that time, the society was not as friendly to LGBT community as now. This is a story of a transgender who hided his identity in his whole life.
This is an important item in my archive because this is the first item I found that a LGBT person hided the identity in his life. His life showed the readers an another way of living as a transgender compares to other people in my posts. In East Asia and western countries, whether the society accepted the homosexuality or not, most of people in my items were revealed their identities, and influenced the society. However, Billy Tipton was not, he continued to hide the identity from others, which gives a comparison to my other posts.
The first person who executed by sodomy law, credit
This is a file of the case of the sodomitical sin. It did not show the date it published, but it comes from OutHistory.org. This website posted the testimonies of people who knew Richard Cornish, a master forced his steward to had a sexual intercourse. This is a significant item because Richard Cornish was the first person who was executed by sodomy law in Virginia at the time 1624.
I put this case in my archive because this is the earliest event happened in LGBT history in United States, and it shows a different attitude towards homosexuality compares to Japan at that time. But it also shows the similar attitude towards homosexuality with South Korea. This event also put the LGBT community in a disadvantaged situations, which may caused LGBT people to hide their identities.
According to Pew Research Center, 80% of the population agreed with the society should accept homosexuality in Canada. Even though this data was from the research in 2013, which was 6 years ago, Canada is still a LGBT friendly country. In fact, there was a research to ask what countries are friendly to LGBT people, and Canada becomes the first place of gay friendly countries. (Nomadic Boys, 2019)
In this post, I want to talk about the one of the first Canadian who revealed the identity in the society, a song and a magazine that influenced Canada.
Robert Ross, a journalist and art critic, who was the first lover of Oscar Wild. He was open with his identity, which gave a great impact to Canadian society. The picture comes from a blog that published in May 2011. It talks about Robert Ross’s life experiences after the death of Oscar Wild, as his lover, and as a homosexual. Even though most of his working areas were in Europe, his family was from Canada, and so he was considered as Canadian, and influenced the Canadian society.
The reason I pick this item is because he was definitely one of the most influential LGBT persons in Canada history, who changed the view of homosexuals. His life was harsh, he was almost arrested because of his identity, and he was bullied by his identity. His life experiences could give a contrast between monks who lived in Japan in early history, as well as other countries.
This is a song called “Any Other Way” by Jackie Shane, released in 1962. Even though the singer was an American, her song was popular, and be in the top 10 best hit songs in Toronto, Canada when she first released the song. This song became a significant song in Canada history because of the lyric and the singer. At that time, Toronto and Canada took large populations of homophobia people. But the singer and the song were very openly revealed to the listeners that she was a transgender and in a LGBT community.
It is an important item in my archive because this song influenced the society in Canada as a best hit song to spread the idea of LGBT. It diminished the antipathy towards homosexuals. This song also provided similar effect as an item “Homosexuality in Joseon Kingdom era”, which posted in Korea post. It was a clue to changed Canada to the most friendly countries over the world.
The first magazine that titled with word “gay”, credit
This article was published in January 26, 2010 by Emily Rose Antflick. It analyzed a magazine: “Gay Magazine”, that was published in 1964. It is a significant item because this article described the details of one of the first LGBT magazines in Canada.
It is a critical item in my archive because “Gay Magazine” was one of the first LGBT magazine published in Canada in 1964. This told us that in 1964, the society was started to accepted homosexuals, which evident the influence of “Any Other way” song, and Robert Ross. It also gave a comparison of the acceptance of LGBT from East Asia.
When I work on my archive, the material I used is online resource. For examples, articles, literatures, musics and films about the real events and behaviors that the LGBT community had in the real world. However, some of my films and literatures’ contents are fiction, nevertheless they are made up based on the real attitudes and environment that the LGBT community had in the real society. For some items, I post current moments in the society, but most of my items are about the past around 18th century or earlier. The literatures I pick may not be a new and fresh one to the readers, but they are the critical ones and became the turning point in the society.
At this point, I don’t have any archive that captures one perspective on an event. But I would add one in my next item.
Part B
Most of the resources I used are having citations and clearly label the time and names that the articles were published. I tried to use sources that published in recent 6 years, however, some resources do not provide the data, so I do not know the exact time they published. The resources gave, mostly, in a third-person perspective to the events. But I could not say it does not have any bias, because my items are about countries, and in each country, the resources I found were written by the local writers. So I may overlook the other perspectives from outside the country.I choose a period of time, and post three resources that talk about the time period in each item. I tired to choose three resources that gave different approaches, such as one from the film, one from the historical event analysis, and the other from the society’s behaviors.
In most of my items, I started with the percentage of supporting LGBT community in each country. However, the data is came from 2013, which is a little bit old. So I’m afraid the resource of this statistics may no longer to be an effective resource over time.
Part C
I would add the primary resources with the first-person’ perspective, because in the early time, the technologies were not as developed as today, so it was hard to keep one’s literature and art works until today. If there is one in today’s online resources, I think the value of it is very high and reliable since it is a primary resource, which did not have any other people’s edit. So if I could discover a record of it, I would pay money for it to use in my archive.
In Spain, 88% of the populations agree with the acceptances of homosexuals in the society (Pew Research Center, 2013). Nowadays, people say Spain as most LGBT friendly country, and in, fact, it is friendly. In previous posts, the time period was quiet new (Taiwan), so in this post, the time period would be as close as 1980s.
Even though the post is going to be around 1980s, Spain has a long history oh LGBT since 1931. This article shows detailed explanations with each timeline, it is called “LGBT in Spain”. Unfortunately, the date of this website and the author is not shown. From the timeline, in 1980, there was an event that made Chueca to be a LGBT friendly city.
This item is important because it is impossible to talk about all the histories of Spain about LGBT, however, this timeline saved the time of reading other events that happened in Spain at different time periods. In addition, the timeline could also show how busy the society was at each time. frame.
“A quién le importa” by Alaska y Dinarama (1986)
Alaska y Dinarama is a Spanish band, after released the song, it became one of the representative songs of the LGBT community from Spain. Since the song is asking questions of who cares to be different from others, and the lyric has a strong voice of being who they are, so it was recognized as an anthem of LGBT community.
It is important in the archive project because among many Latin LGBT musicians, they were the only Spanish musicians and made a significant hit song in the LGBT community. In the lyrics, it was encouraging the lives of LGBT people in Spain, and telling the audiences to lived strong as much as possible. Moreover, most of my previous posts are related to movie or drama, so this could be a good contrast of pop cultures between South Korea, Taiwan and Spain.
This is an another history article written by Theresa Pyrce, called “Homosexuality’s History and Cultural Impact in Spain” in 2016. It has a detail history of LGBT community in Spain, and it talked about time period around 1975~1979, and 2005, which is quiet close to the time range of what this post wants to have.
It is important in the archive project is because in this time range, it can compare the different movements happened with the history of Taiwan and Japan. Also it has more details of history in Spain, so it can provide more deeper knowledge of the history to the audiences. Spain is a LGBT friendly country, but it was not necessary friendly from the past time, and this article successfully explained how Spain became a LGBT friendly country.
First of all, Taiwan took the largest step of LGBT. On May 17, 2019, Taiwanese won the right of same-sex marriage, and it was legally effected on May 24, 2019 (Hollingsworth,2019). This is the first step and victory for all the LGBT community in Asia and also give Taiwan to have an honor of the first place, all over in Asia, legalized the same-sex marriage🌈
Taiwan was actually established in early 17th century, but the Republic of China (Taiwan) government was relocated in 1949 with around 1.2 million people from China to Taiwan around late 1940s and early 1950s (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of China (Taiwan), 2018). So the history of LGBT community in Taiwan might be quiet new compare to other places. So in this post, it would be a brief history archive of Taiwan. You’ll see the similar and different movements happened in Taiwan from Japan and other countries.
This is a novel written by Pai Hesien-yung, called “Crystal Boys” (1983). The story is about the main character’s life after being discovered as a gay. It was a critical literature in Taiwan since this was the first book talked about gay, and directly mentioned the social status of LGBT in the society and its history. This book became one of the classic LGBT literatures today, and made into drama, movie, and stage. The following link is the first episode of the drama.
This item is important in my archive is because it gives a point of perspectives of the society in early 1980s. Even though the time period is different from South Korea and Japan, this book provided a great influence of the concept “LGBT” from both countries. Moreover, the book could give you an idea of “family” as blood-related and as a community of LGBT at that time.
This is a website of an organization which created for all the LGBT people in Taiwan on Jun 28th, 1998. The website has 4 missions; “LGBT Peer Mentoring, LGBT Support Network, LGBT Community Center and LGBT Rights Education” (June, 1998) It is aiming to support LGBT community in the technology, social roles, and to be inclusive, reduce the rate of suicides.
This is an important website in this archive is because it recorded more events that happened in Taiwan, and also the organization took the lead of revealing the sex orientations that people had and less hesitated to come to the hospital. So from the website, you can get more small details of LGBT at that time.
This item is a little different from other items, it is a future parade, and this is the promotion of “Gay Pride Taipei, 2019”. It is going to happen in October. An interesting fact is this gay pride parade is the largest scale of people in this Asia. So the website provides you the route of parade, hotel booking promotions, and a video of the parade to encourage people to come.
This is another important item in this archive, because from the video in this website, you could see the differences of the parade happened in Japan. Even though the event is not happened yet, it will give you some sorts of ideas of gay parade. In addition, it will be happened after the same-sex marriage, so it would .be a remarkable historical event in Taiwan.
