Fragmented Sexual Citizenship in China: Marriage Law, Assigned Guardianship System, and Gay Lives

Kaiqiao Tang

Abstract


The legalization of same-sex marriage in China remains unlikely to be achieved. Some same-sex couples have begun to use legal guardianship as a way to obtain some of the rights of marriage. Even if the assigned guardianship system grants some marriage privileges, it denies same-sex couples access to social aid, protection from domestic violence, a reduced mortgage, and communal property, among other things. In this paper, I analyze and evaluate the Civil Code of the People’s Republic of China and conduct interviews with a lesbian couple and a gay couple who have previously applied for assigned guardianship to determine how the assigned guardianship system in China prevents same-sex couples from attaining full sexual citizenship.


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DOI: https://doi.org/10.20849/ajsss.v7i8.1265

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Asian Journal of Social Science Studies  ISSN 2424-8517 (Print)  ISSN 2424-9041 (Online)  

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