The Cross-Regional Impact of Taiwan’s Same-Sex Marriage Legalisation: The Queer Economy of Welfare Mix

This article builds a bridge between research on the queer economy and that on the
mixed economy of welfare by developing the ‘queer economy of welfare mix’ framework.
While the two fields are related, there is a lack of discussion about the queer dimensions of
the mixed economy of welfare or the mixed strategies employed by lesbian, gay, bisexual,
trans, and queer (LGBTQ+) individuals to explore the benefits and limitations of the queer
economy. The purpose of our framework is to show how local and transnational goods
provided by the mixed economy of welfare can enable LGBTQ+ individuals to organise
their welfare through the mixed strategies – citizen strategy, consumer strategy, and
consumer-citizen strategy. By examining Taiwan’s legalised same-sex marriage and its
impact on Hong Kong and Mainland China, we demonstrate the empirical significance of
the framework, which serves as an analytical tool for examining the government’s role in
promoting LGBTQ+ individuals’ welfare and the challenges involved