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Contents:
- STREAM IT OR SKIP IT: ‘ALL IN MY FAY’ ON NETFLIX, A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT A GAY CHE MAN AND HIS TRADNAL FAY
- NEW DOCUMENTARY EXPLOR GAY LIFE CHA
- GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT
STREAM IT OR SKIP IT: ‘ALL IN MY FAY’ ON NETFLIX, A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT A GAY CHE MAN AND HIS TRADNAL FAY
This article addrs the qutn of publis pennt Che documentary, g exampl om the lbian and gay muny as illtratns. I * gay chinese documentary *
A Che fay railg agast their gay son’s liftyle and choice to have kids via surrogat. -based filmmaker Hao Wu don’t want to show a fay crisis; he jt wants to show what beg gay a regular Che fay is like. Bee he’s gay, and Che society don’t exactly embrace the LGBTQ muny, he felt he need to be someplace that was more acceptg of who he was, even if he had to leave his fay.
Hao beg gay has ed that visn for her. His grandfather, though, has no ia that Hao is gay; he feels that before he turns 100, Hao should return to Chengdu wh a wife and child. ” That’s basilly the rponse he has to anyone who don’t know he’s gay that asks about his wife.
NEW DOCUMENTARY EXPLOR GAY LIFE CHA
Beg Asian Amerin and LGBTQ+ n feel lonely, wh stutns such as ethnic church often disavowg non-heterosexual relatnships while tradnal LGBTQ+ spac such as gay bars n be unwelg. * gay chinese documentary *
In 40 mut, Hao Wu vers about three years of his life, om his grandfather’s birthday through the first vis wh his kids, and he pats the picture of what he’s up agast as a gay man om Cha as more of a se of culture and tradn than anythg else. But their difficulty wh Hao’s orientatn don’t e om a place of bigotry or homophobia.
Its six chapters clu disurs on homoeroticism martial arts flicks, crossdrsg and lbianism Cantone opera adaptatns, and the relatnships between famo Che directors and their fathers. It’s disappotg — although amg — to see John Woo shg off any gay unrton the bromanc A Better Tomorrow (英雄本色 yīngxióng běnsè) (1986) and The Killer (喋血双雄 diéxuè shuāng xióng) (1989).
GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT
” In another scene, Kwan asks director Chén Kǎigē 陈凯歌 why he toned down the gayns Farewell My Concube (霸王别姬 bà wáng bié jī) (1993), pared to the origal novel. Chen repli that he didn’t see the story as primarily gay.
Director Zhāng Yuán’s 张元 Miss J Xg (金星小姐 jīnxīng xiǎojiě) (2000) profil a famo transgenr celebry and dancer, while Queer Cha, “Comra” Cha (志同志 zhì tóngzhì) (2008) by gay activist Cuī Zi’ēn 崔子恩 documents the history of LGBTQ people Cha over the 20th century.