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Performing (Homo)Sexual Citizenship Under Authoritarian Rule: Gay Couple Vlogs and Everyday Intimacy in China
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(Homo)sexual citizenship
performative acts
fufu vlog
queer China
user-generated content
acts of citizenship
politics of visibility
Abstract
This article explores fufu (夫夫) vlogs—user-generated video diaries of Chinese gay male couples on Bilibili—as performative acts of (homo)sexual citizenship under authoritarian rule. Drawing on frameworks of sexual, cultural, and performative citizenship, the review examines how these vlogs negotiate relational recognition, legal marginality, and mediated awareness within a tightly censored digital ecology. Combining digital ethnography and reflexive thematic analysis, the article demonstrates that fufu vlogs simultaneously reproduce and resist heteronormative ideals, offering emotionally legible yet normatively constrained depictions of gay life. While these performances often align with conservative scripts of monogamy, domesticity, and filial piety, they also tactically inhabit legal loopholes—such as the Assigned Guardianship System and hukou affiliation—to enact forms of symbolicFufu
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