This workshop explores how we can build community solidarity across the vast Asia region. In contrast to the experiences in Euro-American contexts, LGBTIQ individuals in Asia are still affected by draconian laws (especially those that are legacies of British colonialism, such as Penal Code 377) and/or homophobic treatments enforced by cultural norms (in the absence of protective laws). As a roundtable consisting of presenters from the South, Southeast, and East Asian regions, this workshop asks: How can we, as LGBTIQ advocates, connect queer struggles in the region that is not only culturally diverse but also unevenly shaped by historical violence, and what is the use of transnational initiatives for overcoming them? How can we decolonize the Western-centric framework of sexual progress and collectively develop new ways of understanding queer struggles in the Asia Pacific as a distinctive set of experiences?
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Gandhingar Queer Pride Parade 2022
