Gay Asia Archiv ⋆ Passport Magaze

Contents:

• ASIAN GAY LITERATURE, 2ND ED. (2021)
• ASIAN GAY LITERATURE, 1ST ED. (2020)
• 10 GREAT GAY FILMS OM EAST AND SOUTH-EAST ASIA
• HOME GAY ASIANS OF TORONTO
• ASIAN BL - BL/GAY DRAMAS AND MOVI 1980'S TO 2021
• GAY ASIA
• ABOUT XY, US’S #1 GAY MENS PRT MAG

ASIAN GAY LITERATURE, 2ND ED. (2021)

Take a look at the bt gay films om Cha, Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia, the Philipp and Thailand. Gay rights, and reprentatn of gay men on screen, vary hugely om untry to untry, offerg a rich diversy of fascatg movi. 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.

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.

ASIAN GAY LITERATURE, 1ST ED. (2020)

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.

10 GREAT GAY FILMS OM EAST AND SOUTH-EAST ASIA

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. 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.

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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. 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.

ASIAN BL - BL/GAY DRAMAS AND MOVI 1980'S TO 2021

Gohatto (1999)‘Gohatto’ means ‘taboo’ Japane, and here the forbidn subject is homosexualy. Although homosexualy is forbidn, he immediately aro the attentn of his fellow warrrs, cludg the stern vice-manr (Takhi Kano).

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.

It’s unclear the story whether Hana is a cross-drsg gay man or a trans woman. 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). But bt of all is Tropil Malady, one of the most mmerisg and surreal gay love stori ever told.

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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.

Home Gay Asians of Toronto - The ArQuiv. Home › Latt News › Home Gay Asians of Toronto. In many Canadian ci, “gay liberatn” anizatns were found the early 1970s, beg the nex for polil, social and cultural activi — and as the LGBT muni expand and evolved, those uned groups gave way to expand works of groups servg more specialized needs.

ABOUT XY, US’S #1 GAY MENS PRT MAG

The Canadian Lbian and Gay Archiv matas vertil fil of historil documents om many muny groups om Toronto and natnwi, and even some om other untri.