Desmond A. D. O'Doherty

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Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in Humanities, York University
E-mail: desmondo@my.yorku.ca

Desmond O’Doherty is a doctoral student at York University whose theoretical interests include: sexuality, performance, Christianity, (post)colonialism, nationalism, citizenship, and Queer Theory. His work examines religion, specifically Christianity, as a cultural byproduct influenced by social and economic change that is implicated in manufacturing sexual discourse for tongzhi in Hong Kong.

Keywords: Sexuality; performance; Christianity; (post)colonialism; nationalism; citizenship; Queer Theory