From both perspectives of cultural production and power relations implicit in the process of cultural production, this review article offers an examination of Taiwan's queer discourses developed over the past decade. It argues that the formation and the contour of these discourses show clearly an epistemologically close linkage with contemporary queer theory in both a global and a globalizing sense. On the other hand, however, the majority of them reflect strongly as well specific local concerns, particularly in terms of the favored issues they have unanimously dealt with. Central to these issues include that of the sexual politics inherent to lesbian role plays, that of coming out, and that of the possible relationship between women's liberation movement and queer politics. In order to develop more constructive, as well as more locally reflective,” queer scholarship, this paper concludes, one needs to take into further consideration of issues like sexual citizenship, trans-national (in particular trans-Asian-Pacific) queer politics, and everyday-life politics.