05/10/2026
【 𝙅𝙊𝙄𝙉𝙏 𝙎𝙏𝘼𝙏𝙀𝙈𝙀𝙉𝙏 】𝙃𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡 𝙊𝙥𝙥𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙈𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙉𝙤𝙩 𝙍𝙚𝙥𝙚𝙖𝙩: 𝙏𝙖𝙞𝙥𝙚𝙞 𝘾𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙂𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙣𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙈𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙙𝙪𝙘𝙩 𝙖 𝙏𝙝𝙤𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝 𝙄𝙣𝙫𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙜𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙒𝙖𝙣𝙝𝙪𝙖 𝙋𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙘𝙚 𝙋𝙧𝙚𝙘𝙞𝙣𝙘𝙩 𝙎𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙘𝙝 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙧𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙮 𝙖𝙩 𝙇𝙂𝘽𝙏𝙌+ 𝙑𝙚𝙣𝙪𝙚𝙨
🏳️🌈 𝘽𝙖𝙘𝙠𝙜𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙: 𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙃𝙖𝙥𝙥𝙚𝙣𝙚𝙙 𝙞𝙣 𝙏𝙖𝙞𝙬𝙖𝙣
On October 3, officers from the Wanhua Precinct of the Taipei City Police Department entered a gay B**M-themed bar in Ximending—a historic hub for LGBTQ+ culture in Taipei—to execute a search warrant. According to multiple on-site witnesses, officers refused to present the search warrant to individuals subjected to inspection, ordered all patrons to squat, prohibited communication and mobile device usage, made derogatory remarks directed at individuals with disabilities, subjected patrons to verbal abuse, and forcibly escorted dozens of citizens to the police station for interrogation. Confronted with such procedural violations, disproportionate measures, pervasive hostility, and abusive conduct throughout the operation, we—as civil society organizations committed to defending the fundamental rights of the LGBTQ+ community—issue our gravest condemnation and formal protest.
Taipei City has long promoted its vibrant LGBTQ+ culture as a hallmark of international tourism and progressive image. We will inform the international community of this crackdown: Taipei City cannot be allowed to hypocritically exploit the LGBTQ+ community for international recognition while suppressing it at home.
The LGBTQ+ community should never face heightened state surveillance or humiliation simply for gathering, socializing, expressing gender, practicing intimacy, or exploring sexual cultures. The Taipei City Government must demonstrate through concrete policy and verifiable action that in a self-proclaimed diverse and progressive city, the dignity, freedom, and safety of LGBTQ+ individuals will not be arbitrarily sacrificed.
🏳️🌈 𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙄𝙨 𝙉𝙤𝙩 𝙖𝙣 𝙄𝙨𝙤𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙄𝙣𝙘𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙣𝙩; 𝙄𝙩 𝙄𝙨 𝙃𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡 𝙏𝙧𝙖𝙪𝙢𝙖 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙇𝙂𝘽𝙏𝙌+ 𝘾𝙤𝙢𝙢𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙩𝙮
For the LGBTQ+ community, this incident is by no means an isolated case, nor can it be stripped from its historical context and reduced to a matter of "public security" or "offenses against public morals."
In the 1990s, LGBTQ+ establishments, social spaces, and communities lived under the constant shadow of police surveillance, raids, harassment, and stigmatization. Countless individuals were treated as suspicious, lewd, or illegitimate simply because of their sexual orientation, gender expression, intimate relationships, or sexual lives—depriving them of safe places to gather and live freely. Such oppression through state power is not a distant memory: just last October (2025), the 6th Precinct of the Taichung City Police Department similarly entered a gay establishment with a search warrant to inspect patrons and seize assets, ultimately forcing the business to close permanently.
Today, when a venue providing space for specific sexual cultures experiences another large-scale search, patron mass-inspection, and police discrimination, humiliation, and intimidation, the community feels far more than a routine law enforcement action—it reawakens the collective memory of state intrusion and oppression.
Taiwan has progressed through gender equity education, same-sex marriage legalization, and increasing LGBTQ+ visibility. However, institutional progress must not remain confined to laws and slogans. If law enforcement officers continue to view LGBTQ+ venues, sexual cultures, intimacy, and sexual autonomy through heteronormative, binary, and moral-panic frameworks, it demonstrates that equality has yet to reach the frontlines of policing.
🏳️🌈 𝙎𝙚𝙣𝙨𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙏𝙧𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝘼𝙡𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝘾𝙖𝙣𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙁𝙞𝙭 𝙎𝙮𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙢𝙞𝙘 𝙄𝙨𝙨𝙪𝙚𝙨
We must clearly state: The Taipei City Government cannot stop at merely "enhancing police diversity education and training."
While training is necessary, the issues exposed here go beyond individual officers "not understanding LGBTQ+ culture" or "saying the wrong thing." They concern whether law enforcement procedures were legitimate, whether coercive force was proportional, whether victims' rights were protected, and whether police entered the scene carrying discriminatory hostility toward LGBTQ+ people, sexual cultures, the B**M community, and persons with disabilities.
If the city government fails to respond with policies beyond lectures, few hours of coursework, or internal publicity, it will personalize and technicalize systemic problems, failing to prevent similar incidents. The Taipei City Government must introduce proactive, actionable, and trackable policies so that police enforcement ceases to be a source of fear and humiliation for the LGBTQ+ community.
🏳️🌈 𝙊𝙪𝙧 𝘿𝙚𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙨
𝟭. 𝙄𝙢𝙢𝙚𝙙𝙞𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙡𝙮 𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙖𝙣 𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙥𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙞𝙣𝙫𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙜𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙤 𝙚𝙭𝙘𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙪𝙨𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙘𝙚, 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙘𝙚𝙙𝙪𝙧𝙖𝙡 𝙫𝙞𝙤𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙝𝙪𝙢𝙖𝙣 𝙧𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙨 𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙞𝙜𝙣𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙚𝙨; 𝙧𝙚𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙚 𝙛𝙪𝙡𝙡 𝙛𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙨, 𝙚𝙣𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙘𝙚 𝙙𝙞𝙨𝙘𝙞𝙥𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙖𝙧𝙮 𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙞𝙨𝙨𝙪𝙚 𝙖 𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙢𝙖𝙡 𝙥𝙪𝙗𝙡𝙞𝙘 𝙖𝙥𝙤𝙡𝙤𝙜𝙮.
𝟮. 𝙋𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙚𝙧𝙫𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙥𝙪𝙗𝙡𝙞𝙘𝙡𝙮 𝙙𝙞𝙨𝙘𝙡𝙤𝙨𝙚 𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙡𝙖𝙬 𝙚𝙣𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙘𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙧𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙧𝙙𝙨 𝙖𝙘𝙘𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙗𝙡𝙚 𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙡𝙖𝙬.
𝟯. 𝙀𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙗𝙡𝙞𝙨𝙝 𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙢𝙖𝙡 𝙤𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙥𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙘𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙜𝙪𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙨 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙇𝙂𝘽𝙏𝙌+ 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙜𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧-𝙙𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙚 𝙫𝙚𝙣𝙪𝙚𝙨.
𝟰. 𝙄𝙣𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙩𝙪𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙯𝙚 𝙚𝙦𝙪𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙝𝙪𝙢𝙖𝙣 𝙧𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙨 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙩𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙇𝙂𝘽𝙏𝙌+ 𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙤𝙣𝙨, 𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙞𝙫𝙞𝙙𝙪𝙖𝙡𝙨 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙙𝙞𝙨𝙖𝙗𝙞𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙚𝙨, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙢𝙖𝙧𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙯𝙚𝙙 𝙜𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙥𝙨 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙤 𝙥𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙘𝙚 𝙤𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙩𝙤𝙘𝙤𝙡𝙨, 𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙚𝙫𝙖𝙡𝙪𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙖𝙘𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙩𝙖𝙗𝙞𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙛𝙧𝙖𝙢𝙚𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙠𝙨.
𝟱. 𝘾𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙜𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙯𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙤𝙛 𝙇𝙂𝘽𝙏𝙌+ 𝙫𝙚𝙣𝙪𝙚𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙚𝙧 𝙨𝙚𝙭𝙪𝙖𝙡 𝙘𝙪𝙡𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝙗𝙮 𝙡𝙖𝙬 𝙚𝙣𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙘𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙖𝙜𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙞𝙚𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙢𝙚𝙙𝙞𝙖.
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台灣基地協會Taiwan GDi Association
高雄市同志遊行聯盟協會 Kaohsiung Pride
台灣性別平等教育協會Taiwan Gender Equity Education Association
臺灣彩虹公民行動協會Taiwan Rainbow Civil Action Association
臺灣感染誌協會Taiwan HIV Story Association
中華民國愛滋感染者權益促進會Persons with HIV/AIDS Rights Advocacy Association of Taiwan (PRAA)
台灣同志家庭權益促進會Taiwan LGBT Family Rights Advocacy
台灣彩虹平權大平台協會Taiwan Equality Campaign
人權公約施行監督聯盟Covenants Watch
