Taiwan Gay Film (31 shows) - MyDramaList

Contents:

• TAIWAN GAY FILM
• ‘YOUR NAME’ FIRST GAY FILM TAIWAN TO EARN NT$100 MILLN
• GAY/BL (TAIWAN)
• BL / GAY - NEW MOVI AND DRAMAS 2020-2021

TAIWAN GAY FILM

Set agast the uncertaty of Taiwan’s transn om dictatorship to mocracy, this landmark film als wh important ntemporary issu such as ternalized homophobia and fay rejectn, makg not only a powerful drama but also a highly signifint retrospective on Taiwan’s ls clive past. Deadbeat Alex ns away to Taiwan, leavg personal problems and a pregnant girliend the Philipp, and meets Jerry, an Atayal medil stunt who fears his parents will reject him bee he was gay.

In addn to featurg some geo shots of southern Yilan County, the film stands out for s sensive handlg of homosexualy digeno muni, an unrreprented subject Taiwane queer movi. Heartbreakgly ank, director Huang Hui-chen expos the srs of a lifetime of shame and homophobia this eply personal documentary about her and her lbian mother, A-nu, who is also a Taoist prits.

Where Your Name Engraved Here dramatiz taboo homosexualy to a story of love agast the odds, Small Talk sticks unflchgly to s bter tth.

‘YOUR NAME’ FIRST GAY FILM TAIWAN TO EARN NT$100 MILLN

A tense fay melodrama, Dear Tennant div to issu faced by queer fai as well as homophobia and genr rol tradnal Taiwane fai. While the film’s universal theme of love helps reach a wi dience, the vivid pictn of the challeng gay men faced the past reflects jt how far Taiwan’s LGBTQ muny has e.

“[The] LGBTQ movement was non-existent and gay guys were still livg the ‘unrground liftyle’ that wasn’t really accepted by mastream society. ” Dpe the more liberal perspective, beg gay remaed taboo. “Most gay men still chose to live a very low-key life bee the prsure of havg their sexuali exposed remaed high, ” said Chi, the proment LGBTQ rights activist who began the fight for marriage equaly Taiwan 1986.

“We ed psdo nam when we tried to meet other gay men parks, and we avoid sharg phone numbers wh strangers easily. ” Livg fear and disguiseApart om reflectg the supprsive social atmosphere, Your Name Engraved Here also shows the harsh reali gay stunts faced school. One character who is spected of beg gay is physilly bullied by classmat.

GAY/BL (TAIWAN)

’” While Cheng wasn’t old enough to experience life as a gay man the late 1980s, he did have to force himself to assiate to the social norm that “man should love woman, ” as a junr high school stunt. “I was livg unr a lot of fear and I had to hi my inty as someone gay nstantly.

“I don’t want the movie to be labelled jt as a ‘gay film, ’” Liu said. Birdy’s story reflects an unfortunate yet mon cisn many gay men Taiwan ma at that time.

BL / GAY - NEW MOVI AND DRAMAS 2020-2021

“Instead of explorg their sexuali unr the new social atmosphere, some of my gay iends still chose to form fai wh women and had kids, ” Liu said. “Each fay’s tolerance for gay people g out was still different and unfortunately, some gay men weren’t able to pursue their te happs.

However, Liu, the director, noted that a small group of gay men were not part of this liberalizatn. “While the LGBTQ movement is shapg up Taiwan, some gay men remaed their ‘unrground life, ’” Liu said.

“They still try to seek pleasure through random enunters parks or gay snas. ” Liu offers the dience a glimpse of this group of gay men’s liv his film, through an olr gay man that Jia-han meets Taipei’s 228 Memorial Park. Taiwan has gone om beg a society that uldn’t accept homosexualy to one that has now granted s LGBTQ cizens the right to form their own fai.