這篇論文先以脈絡化的觀點回顧了台灣九0年代的同志運動發展，指出了它其實是高度依附於台灣解嚴以來主流的一個自我改造風潮下的產物，而這也解釋了台灣同運後來的漸歸沉寂。然而步入二十一世紀以來在大環境政治機會上的一些偶發變化，卻開歐7台灣問運公民轉向的新契機，論文檢視7這個契機，並且回顧了歐美同運的相關發展(即公民路線)所引發的爭議以為參照。最後論文回到了台灣的具體情境，探討同志公民運動的新發展方向所面臨的困境，即公民社會的相關概念在國族主義熱潮中的模糊不彰，進而提出同志公民運動積極介入的可能性。

This article begins with a contextualist review of Taiwan's gay movement in the 1990s. It argues that the movement is highly dependent upon a self-tranformative process of the hetero-mainstream society since the lift of martial law, which also explains its gradual inactivity near the end of the decade. However, certain contingent changes in political opportunity since the year of2000 initiate the so-called "civic tum" of Taiwan's gay movement with its emphasis on the civil rights of lesbians and gays. For the sake of comparison and contrast, similar developments mainly in the US and the controversy surrounding it-which can be summed up in the idea of"sexual citizen(ship)-are also examined. Finally, the article returns to analyze the local conditions of Taiwan which may pose challenges to the new movement of gay citizenship, the most prominent being the zest for nationalism. And it ends with boldly proposing a positive role that could be played by Taiwan's gay (civil) movement in the establishment of a civil society on this island.