Post-Gender Analysis of Sexuality and Law: the Possibility of Queer Theory

在澳大利亚，“酷儿理论”不仅被用来表明“歧视”和“隐私”的存在，还被用来在许多法律的语境中以自己的方式讲述自己的故事。这种叙事方法论赋予了理论以实践的地位。例如，联合国人权事务委员会得出结论认为，“性别”包括“性取向”，并建议澳大利亚政府废除被裁定违反《公民权利和政治权利国际公约》的塔斯马尼亚法规。该建议明确指出，在传统国际法背景下和次国家实体的义务中提出自己的观点是不够的。在澳大利亚的法律的教育中，现在非常重视在法律的背景下的叙事模式和讲故事，而在加拿大，随着《加拿大权利和自由宪章》中的平等条款在法庭内外被用来处理法律中的性行为，出现了完全不同的情况。保护同性伴侣之间的事实婚姻和接受同性婚姻省级法规是支持这一现象的一些例子。法院也热衷于依赖平等条款而不是无定形的酷儿理论和叙事的力量来接受关于色情的新理论（巴特勒案）。比较表明，新理论不一定是引入新方法和对少数人观点的新理解的唯一途径。利用一个更熟悉的理论可能更有成效，该理论已经被转化为包括不同的视角。

In Australia, "Queer Theory" has been used to indicate, not just the existence of "discrimination" and "privacy", but also to narrate one's own story in one's own way in many legal context. This narrative methodology has bestowed the status of praxis to the theory. For example, the UN Human Rights Committee, by concluding that "sex" includes "sexual orientation" and recommended he Australian Government to abolish Tasmanian statute adjudicated as in violation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. The recommendation made it clear that it was not enough to present one's view in traditional international law context and the obligation of sub-nation entities. In Australian legal education, much emphasis has now been given to narrative mode and story-telling in legal context.In Canada, a totally different picture emerged as Equality Clause of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Liberties has been used, in and out of courts, to deal with sexuality in law. Protection of de facto marriages between same-sex partners, and acceptance of same-sex marriage provincial statutes are some of the examples supporting this phenomenon. Courts also have been keen to rely upon Equality Clause rather than amorphous queer theory and the power of the narrative to accept new theory on pornography (Butler case).The comparison has indicated that new theory need not be THE only way to introduce new approach and new understanding of minorities' view-points. It might even be more productive to utilize a more familiar theory that has been transformed to include a different perspective.