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3. Queering Democracy Activism and Online Obscenities: Hong Kong Women’s Boys’ Love Protest

Author : Katrien Jacobs

Published in: Women’s Manga in Asia and Beyond

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

This essay focuses on women’s contributions to democracy activism as part of an ongoing fight for more tolerant community standards and censorship legislation. It looks at how Hong Kong Boys’ Love fans use Facebook to circulate gay-themed erotica and sexually explicit media despite a rigid ban on depictions of sex and nudity. Secondly, it discusses a specific Facebook community, Lester Alex HeHe (捍衛佔領巫山團), also nicknamed “Alexter,” that was set up during the Hong Kong Umbrella movement. As part of the movement for universal suffrage and Hong Kong’s political self-determination, Boys’ Love fans started posting political updates and also “queered” the political-activist mission by posting soft-erotic gay fantasies about the university student leaders.

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Title: Queering Democracy Activism and Online Obscenities: Hong Kong Women’s Boys’ Love Protest
Author: Katrien Jacobs
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: Women’s Manga in Asia and Beyond
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-97228-2

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-97229-9

Copyright Year: 2019
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97229-9_3