Hong Kong filmmaker Ray Yng won awards earlier this year for S S, a touchg portra of 2 elrly gay men who lived life the shadows – here are 6 more films om Asia highlightg LGBTQ+ liv
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7 LGBTQ+ MOVI TO WATCH: OM ELRLY GAY HONGKONGERS S S, TO HOLLYWOOD’S TRANS REPRENTATN DISCLOSURE
If you live Hong Kong, don’t miss M+ Cema’s screeng of S S (Twilight’s Kiss), about two elrly closeted gay men as they stggle between society’s norms and their love. * hong kong lgbt cinema *
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. 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.