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 works ma durg a socially nservative time. Chng, who was 46 when he died, was known for his sgg, dancg and actg durg the heyday of the cy’s entertament dtry the 1980s and ’90s. His supporters fondly remembered his norm-breakg works, llg him “ahead of time.” Anthony Fung, a profsor at the Che Universy of Hong Kong, said the lol remiscenc of Chng reflect the sire to revive Hong Kong’s cultural fluence.
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- HONGKONG SGER TERENCE SIUFAY COM OUT AS GAY
- SGER ZELOS WONG ON WHY HE ED TO ‘PLAY STRAIGHT’ BEFORE G OUT AS GAY, HOW HONG KONG LGBT+ REPRENTATN IS CHANGG
- 35 BT GAY SGERS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ+ SGERS)
HONGKONG SGER TERENCE SIUFAY COM OUT AS GAY
Vci Wong's Boystn will feature sgle gay guys vyg for love! * gay hong kong singer *
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.
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. Some LGBTQ activists Hong Kong have lled for the Gay Gam to be ncelled.
SGER ZELOS WONG ON WHY HE ED TO ‘PLAY STRAIGHT’ BEFORE G OUT AS GAY, HOW HONG KONG LGBT+ REPRENTATN IS CHANGG
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Hong Kong is safe to vis, Gay Gam team tells foreigners worryg about natnal secury law. However, Terence nied the mours, sayg that while he was not gay, he do not discrimate agast homosexualy. For mician Zelos Wong Hoi-yat, g out as gay on YouTube was not about makg a statement – was his way of partner, Barnaby, had died an accint only months earlier.
Now 28 years old, the sger explaed that as a kid growg up Hong Kong, he uld not acknowledge he was gay – even to himself – and felt like he had to hi who he was and “play straight”, pecially when he got to sendary school. “I even had girliends to prove I was straight, and I tried to bad name some of the more outspoken gays I knew to separate myself om them – that was not good.
35 BT GAY SGERS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ+ SGERS)
You n have iends who are flamboyant but straight, and mascule and gay. I have rpect bee of what society regnis as a ‘good gay’, ” he noted, explag that Hongkongers tend to be more acceptg of queer people if they had good jobs and were nventnally Hong Kong has a long way to go givg equal rights to LGBT+ people, Wong said queer reprentatn media uld help people bee more acceptg and ted about the muny, even if some of the films and shows – like the ViuTV h Ossan’s Love, starrg Mirror members Anson Lo and Edan Lui – targeted those who already had more open-md views.
’”“They didn’t know that lots of gay people have fai bee they never see on TV, so they n’t image . Here, we take a look at 35 famo gay sgers who have graced wh their mic: 1. While he kept much of his personal life private, Mercury has been an in for the gay muny for s, though he sadly died om HIV/AIDS 1991.