For a nservative cy, Beijg has a remarkable gay nightlife

Contents:

• CHA’S TOP 10 GAYT CI
• 10 GREAT GAY FILMS OM EAST AND SOUTH-EAST ASIA
• FOR A NSERVATIVE CY, BEIJG HAS A REMARKABLE GAY NIGHTLIFE

CHA’S TOP 10 GAYT CI

The stirrg scen are om the Che fantasy perd seri Word of Honor, the latt h the gay romance genre that has explod populary Cha: boys’ love. ” Subtle gay dramas, adapted om boys’ love webnovels, has bee a lucrative bs Cha, where censorship of anythg LGBTQ-related is tight. But the appete for queer ntent is jt too big to ignore, a mand that not om gay men, but mostly straight least eight shows adapted om novels wh boys’ love romanc are expected to premiere this year across Cha’s major streamg platforms, cludg Alibaba’s You, Tencent Vio, Mango TV, and iQIYI.

“This type of queer, more fantastic than real, do ltle jtice to the gay muny, ” said Zhange Ni, a profsor at Virgia Tech who studi Che webnovels.

Only the ‘homonormative’ gay characters, men who are handsome, wealthy, wh exceptnal quali, are liked by nsumers. ”“This type of queer, more fantastic than real, do ltle jtice to the gay muny.

10 GREAT GAY FILMS OM EAST AND SOUTH-EAST ASIA

”High risk, high returnsMakg and showg boys’ love dramas Cha is a t-and-moe game between the prof-driven entertament dtry and the homophobic censorship 2016, the h teen seri Addicted (also known as Hero), a drama wh explic gay scen, was pulled om onle streamg platform iQIYI before uld release s last three episos.

FOR A NSERVATIVE CY, BEIJG HAS A REMARKABLE GAY NIGHTLIFE

In 2018, the sci-fi drama Guardian went offle on vio hostg se You two months after s release, even though the origal gay romance storyle was rewrten as iendship. Prit, thor of Guardian and Word of Honor, will see at least four more of her novels adapted to as the genre thriv, homosexualy remas taboo Cha. While Word of Honor was praised for tellg a movg love story, s productn team was reful to avoid explic mentns of homosexualy durg the show’s productn pany ially agreed to talk to VICE about their boys’ love dramas but nceled the terview after learng that the qutns will touch on the homosexualy implied their works.

‘Socialist brotherhood’Knowg viewers jokgly ll homoerotic relatnships the dramas “socialist brotherhood, ” a reference to how on-screen homosexualy has to be disguised as bromanc le wh official state the two protagonists of You’s Word of Honor shared tense kiss the origal novel, producers of the drama adaptatn had to rort to microexprsns and symbolism to nvey the pair’s feelgs for each other. ” While explic mentns of homosexualy are banned, s lns of fans had no problem ferrg sexual tensn between the two leads, om their poetic flirtg and lgerg eye ntact, almost every episo.