"Getaway" Sgapore's Gay BL Seri - APCOM

Contents:

• SGAPORE’S FIRST GAY BL WEB DRAMA “GETAWAY” FEATUR AN OPENLY QUEER CAST, IS BASED ON AN ORIGAL STORY
• I MA SGAPORE’S FIRST GAY BL WEB DRAMA SERI. HERE’S HOW I DID IT.
• “GETAWAY” SGAPORE’S GAY BL SERI
• SGAPORE DRAMA ‘SILENT WALLS’ PH HARMFUL STEREOTYPE: GAY CHARACTER IS A GROOMER WH AIDS
• WHAT HAS STEVEN LIM BEEN UP TO? GROWG UP ACTOR'S LATT PROJECT IS SGAPOREAN GAY DRAMA

SGAPORE’S FIRST GAY BL WEB DRAMA “GETAWAY” FEATUR AN OPENLY QUEER CAST, IS BASED ON AN ORIGAL STORY

Apart om Pri Month happeng June, Sgapore’s LGBTQ+ muny has one more thg to look forward to ‒ our Ltle Red Dot’s first gay BL web drama GETAWAY.

I MA SGAPORE’S FIRST GAY BL WEB DRAMA SERI. HERE’S HOW I DID IT.

While BL dramas tend to ter to a heterosexual female dience, GETAWAY differs om others by tailorg to a gay dience. Unr the directn of gay director Ark Saroj, the team took 6 months to produce the web drama. Other than the return of Pk Dot at Hong Lim Park June after a 2-year hiat, there will also be the but of Getaway - Sgapore’s first-ever gay BL web drama seri, starrg an openly queer st cludg lol actor and edian Hirzi Zulkiflie, among others.

“GETAWAY” SGAPORE’S GAY BL SERI

In this se, however, the entire productn was pretty much helmed by an LGBT team, tered towards a gay dience.

SGAPORE DRAMA ‘SILENT WALLS’ PH HARMFUL STEREOTYPE: GAY CHARACTER IS A GROOMER WH AIDS

Sam then fle to Bangkok to seek guidance om his uncle Alex (Otto Fong), who was also disowned the past for beg gay. In the midst of an unrelated nversatn, I randomly asked Snooker, an alumni of the h gay drama seri ‘Gay Ok Bangkok’, if he miss actg.

WHAT HAS STEVEN LIM BEEN UP TO? GROWG UP ACTOR'S LATT PROJECT IS SGAPOREAN GAY DRAMA

But that was the night which solidified my sire to produce Sgapore’s first gay BL web drama seri.

BL, short for Boys Love, has bee an umbrella term for any Asian drama centerg on a gay love story. In many parts of Asia where LGBTQ+ rights are lackg, BL dramas have emerged as the primary form of gay media reprentatn. That same year, South Korea jumped on the bandwagon by producg s first gay BL drama seri, which was subsequently picked up by Netflix.

In fact, one of the most popular gay BL dramas of all time actually me om Cha; Addicted aka 上瘾. One of the most viral stori I’ve ever told was on Faliqh and Kaal, a gay Malay uple Sgapore. As impactful as they have been, they don’t tug at the heartstrgs the same way that a gay BL drama seri do.

The Siam was unr the helm of General Manager Nick Downg, whom I had cintally told about my sire to make a gay drama seri over a sual lunch one year ago.

Neher of uld have predicted that we would be workg together on a gay BL drama seri one year later. Another anisatn that I managed to get on board as a supportg partner was, a programme wh AFA (Actn For AIDs) that provis sexual health-related servic to the gay and MSM muny Sgapore.

Was actually the anisatn that produced ‘People Like Us’, Sgapore’s first gay web drama seri. Jog the e were 2Eros, Supawear, Ette Tea and FabuloMe, pennt bs that are all owned by gay entreprenrs.

Wh the fundraisg procs plete, I was now a posn to actually produce a gay BL drama seri.

As popular as gay BL dramas have bee, they have also e unr heavy cricism recent years. BL dramas typilly nta homophobic unrton, and gay men are often portrayed as predators.

Scen of the gay protagonist takg advantage of his dnk or unnsc love tert have bee monplace wh the genre. Another mon cricism of gay BL dramas is that while they pos to reprent the gay muny, they do ltle to reprent the gay experience.

No longer nfed to a school yard settg, creators are creasgly phg the envelope of what qualifi as a gay BL drama.