| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立彰化師範大學 === 地理學系 === 105 === In the late period of geography after the cultural turn, feminism is used to critique the excluded half of geography which has been neglected for a while. Now, the three waves of feminism has become a common practice. In addition to caring and empowering the gender minorities, it still continues to reveal the space of gender blindness. The most microscopic space, the body, is regarded as an intermediary between social structure and individuals. At the same time the class and status of the body are shaped according to its performativity and capital amount. Space, as a supporting system of the performativity, will be shaped by its subjective, and vice versa. This research takes Taichung GDi, a LGBTQIA-Friendly Institu¬tion in Taichung city, as an example to research the bodily performativity of gay in this friendly space. Through the depth interviews and participant observations, it investigates not only how the 20 gay men compete in space and differentiate between ethnic groups but also observes the process of subjectivity and spatial interaction.
The results show that the subjectivity of gay men has a strong context. According to the subjective shaping context from boys to individual, it is divided into four main thematic discussions: 1. Self-subject construction; 2. Flowing entity and performa¬tivity practice in society; 3. the subject construction and performativity practice after entering Taichung GDi; 4. Representational Taichung GDi after the performativity.
From the above four themes, after Gay men`s identities in the self-subject construction are completed, they will be interfered by the statements in social system from all directions; they will com¬pete for capital, otherizing and classifying each other; meanwhile re-create the space with their subjectivity. After entering Taichung GDi, individuals become a part of the GDi through strategy and immersed in the subjectivity of it, showing the interaction and association of individual between spaces. At last, the outsiders’ perspectives of the representational Taichung GDi after the performativity would be described as a gay friendly space which is mostly consisted of young, feminine gay and twink. However, the internal subjectivity is unsta¬ble and changing. Besides the representation of the space, the homosexual in GDi also become the representation of individuals who has a gender aware¬ness yet still oppressed by the patriarchal structure. The most important exter¬nal force is heterosexual hegemony structure, which is difficult to shake.
Conclusion and extension point of this research is that, friendly space is now a negotia-tion within the social system; gender research can be more in-depth combined with race and class, to analyze the gender issues in space more deeply and contextually. The opposite to the characteristics of the flow in the friendly space has always been the structure of heterosexual hegemony instead of the differentiation in it. “The personal is political” is the core of “Geography, gender is life.”
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