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Contents:

• HONGKONG SGER TERENCE SIUFAY COM OUT AS GAY
• HONG KONG GAY FILM
• LLIE CHNG: ASIA'S GAY IN LIV ON 15 YEARS AFTER HIS ATH
• FORMER TVB ACTOR VCI WONG MARRI LONGTIME BF, FIRST GAY MARRIAGE HK ENTERTAMENT INDTRY

HONGKONG SGER TERENCE SIUFAY COM OUT AS GAY

Hong Kong is gettg s first-ever gay datg TV show! Boystn is the creatn of out gay actor, host, and bs executive Vci Wong, who also serv as the host and producer of the new show. Wong is also the executive director of Wong's Kong Kg Internatnal, a billn-dollar vtment holdg pany started by his was quoted an Oriental Daily News terview sayg that he unrstands a datg show featurg gay men might not be well-received by more culturally nservative elements of Hong Kong society, but he feels the show mak an important statement.

However, Terence nied the mours, sayg that while he was not gay, he do not discrimate agast homosexualy.

Some LGBTQ activists Hong Kong have lled for the Gay Gam to be ncelled. Hong Kong is safe to vis, Gay Gam team tells foreigners worryg about natnal secury law.

HONG KONG GAY FILM

Image ptn, Llie Chng was one of the most popular male sgers and actors of the mid-1980sFor the past 15 years fans of tormented superstar Llie Chng, one of the first celebri to e out as gay Asia, have gathered at Hong Kong's Mandar Oriental Hotel to mourn the day he took his own life. "He showed the [Che-speakg] world that gay people n be posive, bright and worthy of rpect. It was not an easy time to be gay.

At that time, homosexualy was still viewed by many as an illns and abnormaly Hong Kong, pecially after the emergence of the first lol se of Aids 1984.

It was not until 1991 that adult gay sex was crimalised the terrory. "The LGBT movement Hong Kong took off the 1990s, when the muny fally beme visible to the public, " Travis Kong, an associate profsor of soclogy rearchg gay culture at The Universy of Hong Kong, told BBC Che. He went on to star Happy Together directed by Wong Kar Wai - a gay cema classic about a uple who stggle to fd a peaceful -existence.

LLIE CHNG: ASIA'S GAY IN LIV ON 15 YEARS AFTER HIS ATH

Chng did not proclaim his sexualy as such, but nfsed his love for a source, Rock RerdsImage ptn, Chng wore his inic pair of red high heels a 1997 ncert"In the 1990s, at tim a gay man was still lled 'Aids man' and 'pervert', " says Mr Kong. HONG KONG (AP) — Fans of late Canto-pop in Llie Chng, one of the first sgers to e out as gay Hong Kong, flocked to the cy this week to memorate their idol’s ath 20 years ago — revisg his legacy of pneerg work ma durg a socially nservative time. Chng also broke through the cy’s cultural stat quo by boldly revealg his gay relatnship a nservative lol society at that time— a cisn that uld have ed his reer but has earned him a lot of rpect om the gay muny, Fung said.

Vci and Kev’s parents wnsed their marriage, and after the ceremony, the two fai and their iends me together for a dner me out as gay 2013, when he went on the rad show Together as One <自己人> as a gut star.

Hong Kong’s LGBTQ+ muny has seen some solid social progrs recent years: The ernment regnized same-sex partnerships spoal visa applitns, the hight urt led that same-sex upl n apply for spoal benefs and file jot tax returns, and a study nducted last year showed that the majory of Hongkongers support gay marriage.

FORMER TVB ACTOR VCI WONG MARRI LONGTIME BF, FIRST GAY MARRIAGE HK ENTERTAMENT INDTRY

Of urse there’s still unrcurrents of homophobia, too, as seen the recent furor over a Cathay Pacific ad featurg a gay uple, the whdrawal of 10 LGBT children’s books om the cy’s librari, and the appotment of an anti-gay marriage polician to the cy’s equali watchdog. This was a tricky list to pile, not least bee Hong Kong cema, gay, lbian, and queer characters are often amed stereotypil ways: as the butt of a joke, or as the protagonist’s “gay iend” whose character has a lghable lack of nuance. For stance, gay men have largely been portrayed as effemate and wimpy, or “mp mp i, ” much of the history of Hong Kong cema.

But while recent films pictg LGBTQ+ characters still are far om perfect, there have been some promisg velopments — we’ve had the first mastream film to tackle the topic of transgenrism, portrayals of gay men that go far eper than the trope of “mp mp i, ” and exploratns of the lbian woman’s experience beyond the stereotype of an aggrsive, leather jacket-wearg butch. Sensg that Sam and Rose are not happy together, Wg cis to make her missn to rencile the two lovers, but the procs fds fds herself fallg love wh Sam, and Sam likewise fallg love wh Wg — which leads him to qutn whether he is actually gay.