Keeping A Distance: Changing Everyday Lives of Married Migrant Gay Men in China’s State-owned Enterprises

Javier Pang; Kaxton Siu

doi:10.1080/14672715.2023.2265944

Keeping A Distance: Changing Everyday Lives of Married Migrant Gay Men in China’s State-owned Enterprises

Javier Pang, Kaxton Siu^*

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This study examines continuity and change in the lives of rural migrant gay men working in China’s state-owned enterprises (SOE) from an everyday life perspective. By examining their sexuality, migration histories, and heterosexual marriage experiences, this study contributes to sexuality and migration literature by exploring how rural-to-urban migrant gay men maintain their everyday homosexual intimacies in post-socialist China. It adds to the perspective that gay men’s perceptions, interpretations, and reactions to marriage and sexuality vary, due to their personal migration experiences. These findings also contribute to scholarly discussions of everyday life by providing a nuanced analysis of how spatial tactics are employed as forms of everyday resistance by gay men for maintaining their sexualities.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	538-554
Number of pages	17
Journal	Critical Asian Studies
Volume	55
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/14672715.2023.2265944
Publication status	Published - 2 Oct 2023

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Sociology and Political Science

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China
everyday life resistance
gay marriage
tongqi
urban sexual practice

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