Gender and Language

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Notes

• 1) This article is a revised version of a paper presented at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication in Toronto, Canada, August 2004.
• 2) Ai-Bao means "Love Newspaper," while G & L is an abbreviation of gay and lesbian.
• 3) In this paper, all Chinese names of my informants are pseudonyms. The paper keeps English names as given by informants. The use of English names in the Taiwanese context has a high degree of anonymity since these names are not official. Most personal advertisement posters use English names so as not to reveal their real identity. It is common for Taiwanese to have ten English names for different occasions.
• 4) The English pronoun you does not differentiate male or female. However, such a distinction is made in Chinese. In other words, the personal ad loses its specifically male addressee when translated into English.
• 5) Gay-themed movies showing at the in 1991 Taipei Golden Horse film festival included: Garden (GB 1990); Torch Song Trilogy (US 1988); Total Eclipse (US 1990).
• 6) Eric Rohmer is an acclaimed French filmmaker and a frontier in the French New Wave. His film was screened in the Golden Horse film festival. Several informants of the study felt that the female narrators in his movie in fact are gay men in drag.
• 7) As a longstanding friend of the author, Corey (pseudonym) volunteered to offer many personals he posted and share with me what he thought of the responses he received.
• 8) Qu Yuan relates the notion of friendless officials and concubine's sons in one of the earliest pieces of Chinese classic literature, Li Sao (Sorrow of Parting), to the ostracism experienced by male homosexuals in modern society.
• 9) Beginning in the early 1980s, the Taiwanese gay community became increasingly visible in urban settings, most notably the Taipei New Park depicted in Crystal Boys and other gay-themed works of fiction. Located in proximity to the presidential palace and parliament, the Taipei New Park was established as a public space, but the Chinese-styled architecture and the abundance of shade combined with the frequent intrusion from patrols and the enforcement of martial law made it a significant location laden with cultural connotations for sexual minorities in the 1980s.
• 10) Thus, the line "Oh, you are here too," derived from the theme song of the film version of Crystal Boys, Taiwan’s first gay-themed movie, and alludes to a reunion after a lengthy journey in which disbelief and mischief almost ruin homosexual relationships.