邁向酷兒荒謬：臺灣當代大眾文化生產中的國族與性別政治

Abstract

2000年後，臺灣同志平權運動的整體氣氛上揚。然而，反同志/反酷兒陣營於2018年所策動之反同婚公投，仍顯現平權運動內部「溫柔策略」的困境，更在後公投時期突顯在地性別與國族盤根錯節的問題。當代同志/酷兒族群為詰問這些持續浮現的問題，策略地援用與挪用數位媒體資源，將平權運動與國族議題縫合至自身創作之中，展現臺灣當代酷兒的批判美學。有鑑於此，本研究提出「酷兒荒謬」的概念，透過剖析當代同志/酷兒的美學方法，說明新生代酷兒操作「荒謬」的創作，進行轉化、乘載並抵抗臺灣內部各類常態機制的運行，當中不僅描繪當代同志/酷兒所有之感覺結構，更企圖擴大視角，以性別議題回應「臺灣」問題。 具體而言，新生代酷兒創作，有別於九零年代以降的激進酷兒理論實踐，以「荒謬感」作為另類激進美學，以反映新生代同志/酷兒在面對國內恐同修辭、歧視及同志正典等等常態機制的荒誕處境，甚至為求擴大臺灣同志/酷兒的生存可能，進一步達成未來酷兒邦聯的狀態。以上，本研究分別以文學創作、迷因與哏圖、數位表演三種不同層面的素材，說明及剖析酷兒荒謬的理論概念及其政治張力，指出此概念作為當代同志/酷兒解套困境的可能道路。

Since 2000, LGBTQ equal rights movements in Taiwan have been in full swing. However, the referendum against marriage equality instigated by the anti-LGBTQ camp in 2018 clearly shows the predicament of the “gentle strategy” based on realistic, reticent, and middle-class values that is employed by the mainstream equal rights movements, and in the post-referendum period the problem of the complicated relation between gender/sexuality and nation has become even more prominent. In order to interrogate these problems that keep emerging, contemporary queer activists have strategically invoked and appropriated digital media resources to incorporate equal rights movements and other social issues into their own creative works, revealing a contemporary Taiwanese critical queer aesthetic. In light of this, this study proposes the concept of “queer absurdity,” and by analyzing contemporary LGBTQ aesthetic methods, this study explains how a new generation of queer creators manipulate the “absurd” in their works to transform, endure and resist the normativity operative in Taiwan. These works not only portray contemporary LGBTQ structures of feeling, they also try to expand perspectives and through the issue of gender/sexuality further interrogate the (dis)identificatory process of “Taiwan”. Specifically, the new generation of queer creations, not entirely same with the radical queer theoretical practices from the 90s onwards, use “feeling of absurdity” as an alternative radical aesthetic to reflect the ridiculous scenarios the new generation of queer youths have to face, such as homophobia, discrimination and homonormativity, in order to expand the living space for Taiwanese LGBTQ youths and establish queer alliances for the future. Through three different types of source material, namely literature, memes and image macros, and digital performances, this study explains and dissects the theoretical concept of “queer absurdity” and its political tensions, to point out that this concept offers a possible way out of the predicament the contemporary LGBTQ community is in.