ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that neoliberal and global Asian sites like Hong Kong offer diverse expressions of queer globalities, distinct from any linear trajectory of queer liberalism, by examining two areas of inquiry, namely queer urban cinema and gay and transgender rights. It focuses on the possibility and necessity of theorising Hong Kong through the models of queer globalities and queer regionalism. Queer globality captures the messy friction and unpredictable outcomes through which claims to queer liberalism, rights, and belonging are unevenly applied and negotiated in the postcolonial queer regionalism of Hong Kong. Theorising a queer Hong Kong through trans visuality and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans rights evinces discrepant processes of queer globality and regionalism beyond the Eurocentric vision of queer liberalism. Queer globality names the critical encounters between local legal and institutional structures in Hong Kong and the global claims to queer rights and intimacy.
