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Contents:

• THE HIDN LIV OF GAY MEN CHA
• GAY GRANDPA CUM PORN VIOS
• 10 GREAT GAY FILMS OM EAST AND SOUTH-EAST ASIA
• CHE MEN GAY STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG
• CHA'S XIANG XIAOHAN: FIRST GAY MAN TO SUE THE ERNMENT
• CHE GAY VIO BAN SPARKS ONLE BACKLASH
• 80-YEAR-OLD GRANDPA PLEDG SUPPORT TO GAY GRANDSON IN AN AWOME WAY
• 95-YEAR-OLD GREAT GRANDFATHER OUT AS GAY
• 15 GAY CAM WEBS: THE TOP GAY CAMS FOR FREE OR PREMIUM SHOWS
• ASIAN GAY MEN
• MY CHE IMMIGRANT FATHER…AND HIS LOVE FOR HIS GAY SON AND PARTNER

THE HIDN LIV OF GAY MEN CHA

For the past three months he’s been flippg through magaz to fd the ads, the on for the clics that claim to cure homosexualy. Gay rights, and reprentatn of gay men on screen, vary hugely om untry to untry, offerg a rich diversy of fascatg movi.

GAY GRANDPA CUM PORN VIOS

If east and south-east Asian films about gay men rarely make to DVD, films about lbians are rarer still.

We hope that, wh classic lbian tl beg creasgly succsful, albe at a shamefully slow rate, a future list on gay female east Asian films will appear the future.

10 GREAT GAY FILMS OM EAST AND SOUTH-EAST ASIA

The bananas plot is pure mp: transvte performer Eddie (played by Peter, later the fool  Akira Kurosawa’s Ran (1985)) strik up a fierce rivalry wh another drag queen Shju Ni-chōme, Tokyo’s gay ghetto.

Eddie tri to fet harrowg memori of killg his mother – and anyone who knows their Greek tragedy will send-gus the inty of the manager of a gay bar wh whom he then shacks up. A direct fluence on Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange (1971), Funeral Para of Ros gleefully subverts all notn of rpectabily, givg the viewer an unashamed snapshot of 1960s Japane gay subculture on the way, as queers Tokyo speak their mds to the mera.

CHE MEN GAY STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG

Farewell My Concube (1993)The unrequed gay love story at the heart of Chen Kaige’s Palme d’Or-wng masterpiece is often overlooked, wh crics ncentratg their admiratn on the credibly amb spe of the film, takg over half a century of Che history.

East Palace, Wt Palace (1996)Power play is a major theme of this tense drama, which a gay man is apprehend while cisg a park and spends the night a police statn unr the stern eye of the arrtg officer.

CHA'S XIANG XIAOHAN: FIRST GAY MAN TO SUE THE ERNMENT

When the officer releas the gay man om ctody, he ref to leave, and thgs tak turn for the twisted. Optg to e a gay man to symbolise ee spirs and a possibly homosexual guard to reprent Che thory was a risky move, plited by the former’s sado-masochistic claratn of love for his ptor.

The tle is a reference to the parks flankg the Forbidn Cy, popular cisg grounds for Beijg’s gay men. Happy Together (1997)This is one of the olt gay films ever ma, a vivid and exhilaratg pictn of two men om Hong Kong – Lai (Tony Lng) and Ho (Llie Chng) – an tense on-aga-off-aga relatnship, who travel to Argenta to vis Iguazu Falls, but end up repeatg the cycle of fily and celty.

CHE GAY VIO BAN SPARKS ONLE BACKLASH

After yet another break-up, Lai meets the handsome and possibly gay Chang, whose iendship jolts Lai to facg up to his rponsibili, and offers a chance of happs and remptn. Although homosexualy is forbidn, he immediately aro the attentn of his fellow warrrs, cludg the stern vice-manr (Takhi Kano).

80-YEAR-OLD GRANDPA PLEDG SUPPORT TO GAY GRANDSON IN AN AWOME WAY

Unorthodox erotic obssn permeat the bt-known works of Nagisa Oshima, notably the ultra-ntroversial Ai no rrida (1976), wh s graphic scen of unsimulated sex, and the homoerotic atmosphere of the prison mp  Merry Christmas, Mr. Homosexual them suffe much of his work (Weerasethakul is gay himself), maniftg as out and out mp the outrageo The Adventure of Iron Psy (2003).

95-YEAR-OLD GREAT GRANDFATHER OUT AS GAY

The Blossomg of Maximo Oliveros (2005)A gay Filipo kid wh a penchant for drag is the subject of Auras Solo’s funny but grty g-of-age film. I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone (2006)Gay characters appear throughout the work of Malaysian director Tsai Mg-liang, om the suicidal homosexual man  Vive l’amour (1994), the hopeful horny Japane guy cisg the cema  Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003) and the father and son the bleak The River (1997). In his first feature ma Malaysia (his prev work was filmed Taiwan), Mg-liang regular Lee Kang-sheng stars two rol – as a atose man red for by a woman, and as a migrant worker Kuala Lumpur who is beaten up and red for by a gay Banglashi man.

Image ptn, Xiang Xiaohan holdg an open letter ont Hunan Universy urgg the public to support his e (Photo: urty of Xiang Xiaohan)Neteen-year-old Xiang Xiaohan, a gay rights activist om Hunan Provce, has been dubbed Cha's Don Quixote over his dogged termatn to take the ernment to mpaign to challenge a cisn by the civil affairs partment of Hunan ernment not to register his gay rights anisatn marks a rare open prott by Cha's gay and lbian muny and has thrown him to the media a untry where homosexualy was illegal until 1997 and fed as a mental disorr until 2001, has phed the tolerance of the lg Communist Party and the ernment to the lim, and polarised public a rare show of support, even the state-n Xhua news agency, regard as the mouthpiece of the ernment, rried a tailed report about his mpaign after he filed his famatn lawsu agast the Hunan ernment. Image ptn, A py of Hunan ernment's reply to Xiang Xiaohan which said homosexualy had no place tradnal Che cultureIn a wrten reply to him, the lol ernment said homosexualy had no place Che tradnal culture and "the buildg of spirual civilisatn" - a tchphrase morn Cha for what many believe is the party's doctratn.

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"I believe what the ernment said [ the reply] fam the reputatn of the gay and lbian muny Cha, and I want them to issue a wrten apology, " said Mr also wants the ernment to reverse s cisn not to register his anisatn. Registerg his group as an NGO would enable to legally receive donatns and enjoy tax Cha, some NGOs already vote nsirable rourc to protectg gay rights but they do not openly operate the name of the gay muny.

ASIAN GAY MEN

Unr current law, the urt mt rm the platiff wh seven days whether plans to proceed wh the Mr Xiang received a wrten reply om the urt only on 14 March, spe repeated requts for a urt threw out the se bee did not believe that the ernment famed homosexuals, Mr Xiang said.

The urt believed that the ernment only offered what lled admistrative guidance on the issue of homosexualy, he Xiang said that he would appeal agast the lg. "If we n't force the civil affairs partment of the Hunan ernment to whdraw what said on homosexualy, then other ernment bodi would likely follow s example, and this would e irreparable psychologil damage to gay and lbian people.

MY CHE IMMIGRANT FATHER…AND HIS LOVE FOR HIS GAY SON AND PARTNER

"If gay and lbian people have no place Cha's tradnal culture, how n you enurage them to pursue the Cha Dream, " he said, referrg to Print Xi Jpg's publicly stated visn for the future of the untry. 'Transparent'Analysts say Xiang Xiaohan's high profile prott has offered a rare glimpse to the extent to which attus towards homosexualy Cha have ptn, Xiang Xiaohan's anizatn has anised events Hunan provce (Photo: urty of Xiang Xiaohan)His mpaign may have seen him pared wh the naive hero Cervant' novel Don Quixote, but his prott has also highlighted the risg awarens of Cha's gay muny about their Fang Qiang om Jtice For All - a non-prof anisatn dited to safeguardg the rights of disadvantaged members of the public - said also marked a signifint step forward by the ernment. "It is the first time Cha that a lol ernment partment has formally given a wrten reply to a requt om the gay and lbian muny, whereas the past the ernment would jt simply ignore , " he told the is also rare that a urt Cha has alt wh Xiang Xiaohan's lawsu agast Hunan ernment an open and transparent way, Mr Yu ptn, Xiang Xiaohan's lawsu has phed the tolerance of the party to the lim (Photo: urty of Xiang Xiaohan)Mr Xiang's story has polarised opn among micro-bloggers.

"The practice of forcg Che women to bd their feet and forbiddg those whose hbands died to remarry is also regard as Cha's tradnal culture, " the blogger another disagreed, sayg "gay and lbian activists, you n do whatever you want to do privately. We will ntue to try to enurage the ernment to safeguard gay and lbian rights through laws and agree to register our anisatn, " he said.