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ABSTRACT:
QUEER FAMILY FORMATION AND FAMILY LIVES TRAVERSE MULTIPLE KINDS OF BORDERS, FROM HETERONORMATIVE LAWS AND SOCIAL AND CULTURAL NORMS THAT DISTINGUISH AMONG FAMILIES TO DIFFERENTLY VALIDATED STATUSES THAT DIVIDE FAMILIES FROM WITHIN. FOR LGBT COUPLES WITH CHILDREN, BORDER CROSSINGS MAY INVOLVE BOTH PHYSICAL MOBILITY AND MOVEMENT ACROSS LEGAL AND SOCIAL IMAGINARIES; AS SIMULTANEOUSLY PRODUCTIVE AND DISCIPLINARY EXPERIENCES, SUCH CROSSINGS GENERATE LEGITIMACY AND RECOGNITION FOR SOME WHILE DENYING OTHERS BASIC RIGHTS TO A SHARED FAMILY LIFE. THIS TALK FOCUSES ON LGBT COPARENT FAMILIES IN TAIWAN, WHERE THE WIDELY ACCLAIMED 2019 LEGALIZATION OF SAME-SEX MARRIAGE HAS GRANTED THE BENEFITS OF LEGAL RECOGNITION TO MANY LGBT COUPLES AND PARENTS. NONETHELESS, OTHERS FACE CONTINUED OBSTACLES TO LEGAL MARRIAGE, RIGHTS TO CONCEIVE OR ADOPT CHILDREN, OR LEGAL RECOGNITION AS A FAMILY UNIT. BASED ON MULTI-YEAR ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH WITH LGBT PARENTS AND LGBT RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS, THIS TALK ADDRESSES THE SPECIFIC CHALLENGES EXPERIENCED BY TRANSNATIONAL LGBT COPARENTS IN TAIWAN WHO FALL THROUGH THE CRACKS OF LEGAL REGIMES. SITUATED PRECARIOUSLY IN RELATION TO LAW, GOVERNMENT BUREAUCRACIES, AND DOMESTIC LGBT COMMUNITIES, THESE COUPLES STRUGGLE TO SECURE RECOGNITION AS SPOUSES, PARENTS, IMMIGRANTS, AND FAMILIES. DENIED LEGAL RIGHTS ENJOYED BY THEIR DOMESTIC COUNTERPARTS, TRANSNATIONAL LGBT COPARENTS EXPERIENCE A FORM OF TEMPORAL BORDERING THAT LIMITS THEIR LIVES TO THE PRESENT, PERPETUALLY FORECLOSING THE GENERATIVE POSSIBILITIES OF ORIENTING THEIR FAMILIES TO THE FUTURE.