Recent Publications

Book

Chan, L. S. (2025). 虛擬親密：約會軟件中的性別及酷兒政治 [Xūnǐ qīnmì: Yuēhuì ruǎnjiàn zhōng dì xìngbié jí kù er zhèngzhì] (Z. Wan, Tran). CUHK Press (Original work published 2021)

Chan, L. S. (2021). The politics of dating apps: Gender, sexuality, and emergent publics in urban China. MIT Press.

Selected Articles 

  1. Chan, L. S., & Wu-Ouyang, B. (2025). The association between dating app usage and body image dissatisfaction among young men who have sex with men in Hong Kong: A mixed methods study. Sexuality Research & Social Policy. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13178-025-01091-x
  2. Chan, L. S., & Huang, Y. T. (2025). Dating app use, self-disclosure, and life satisfaction among gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men: An exploratory study from Taiwan. Journal of Homosexuality. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/00918369.2025.2516507
  3. Chan, L. S., Chui, D. L. T., & Yanagi, J. (2025). Cultural-psychological differences, social acceptance of same-sex relationships, and dating app use motives of young GBMSM: A comparative study across Hong Kong, Taipei, and Osaka. Journal of Sex Research, 62, 455–465. https://doi.org/10.1080/00224499.2024.2317806
  4. Chan, L. S., & Wu-Ouyang, B. (2025). The association between dating app usage and body image dissatisfaction among young men who have sex with men in Hong Kong: A mixed methods study. Sexuality Research & Social Policy. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13178-025-01091-x
  5. Chui, D. L. T., & Chan, L. S. (2025). Boys’ Love as conditional resilience: How gay and bisexual men from Hong Kong consume Boys’ Love. Sexuality & Culture, 29, 988–1006. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12119-024-10309-w
  6. Chan, L. S. (2024). Ambivalent, discontented, and sceptical: Marginalised queer lives in the post-same-sex marriage era in Taiwan. Sexualities. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/13634607241274606
  7. Miao, W., & Chan, L. S. (corresponding author) (2023). Revisiting community and media: An affordance analysis of digital media platforms used by gay communities in China. Journal of Communication, 73(3), 210–221. https://doi.org/10.1093/joc/jqad008

Guest Editorship for Special Issues

Chan, L. S., Cassidy, E., & Tan, J. (Eds.) (2023). Queer cultures in digital Asia. International Journal of Communication, 17. https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/21105

For a complete list of publications, see my CV.