Unlike the 1980s, when the only gay issue that caught the attention of general society was Chi Chia-wei's denunciations of "heterosexual authoritarianism," the 1990s saw the movement carried forward, like so many other social movements at that time, on Taiwan's rising tide of democracy.
對照八○年代，整個台灣社會僅能見到祁家威踽踽衝撞異性戀威權體制，九○年代後，同志運動就像其他社會運動一般，依附在台灣風起雲湧的民主浪潮裡，一點一滴，腳步雜沓，逐漸走出屬於全台灣的同志人權成果。