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Contents:

• ‘MARRY MY DEAD BODY’: A GAY GHOST MARRIAGE MOVIE IS COMG WORLDWI!
• GREG HSU’S CHARACTER IS FORCED TO MARRY A GAY GHOST MARRY MY DEAD BODY.
• TAIWAN GAY FILM
• GAY/BL (TAIWAN)

‘MARRY MY DEAD BODY’: A GAY GHOST MARRIAGE MOVIE IS COMG WORLDWI!

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.

A tense fay melodrama, Dear Tennant div to issu faced by queer fai as well as homophobia and genr rol tradnal Taiwane fai. The latt h movie om Taiwane director Cheng Wei-hao is a il remptn story about a homophobic tective erced to a marriage wh a gay ghost. The gay “ghost marriage” movie ‘Marry My Dead Body’ is g to Netflix!

GREG HSU’S CHARACTER IS FORCED TO MARRY A GAY GHOST MARRY MY DEAD BODY.

It picts a fantasy journey full of lghter and tears between a straight policeman wed to a gay ghost, and they mt solve a crime together. The homophobic and ghost-phobic straight police Wu Mg Han (Greg Hsu), who mistakenly picks up a red envelope while vtigatg evince a se, meets Mao Mao (At L), who was discsg marriage wh his boyiend but died unjtly bee of an accint.

Th, culmatg to a film that is greater than the sum of s Mg Han, Greg Hsu, is your typil homophobic chvistic CisHet male police officer who believ he is God's gift to mankd.

To make matters worse his ghost spoe, Mao Bang Yu (Mao Mao), is a gay Mao, At L, was killed late one night a h and n cint. This bromance-actn-edy featurg a homophobic p who is forced to marry a gay ghost is not only entertag, also explor myriad social issu and genr stereotyp.

TAIWAN GAY FILM

It’s pretty predictable what will happen when egotistil, homophobic p Mg-han (Greg Hsu, 許光漢) is erced to marryg the ghost of recently ceased gay man Mao Mao (At L, 林柏宏).

Based on Lai Chih-liang’s (賴致良) script, which won Bt Creative Story 2018’s Let’s Be Wild (野草計畫) screenwrg ntt, the film prents an trigug ncept as both ghost weddgs and gay weddgs are owned upon society. Greg Hsu’s character is forced to marry a gay ghost Marry My Dead Body. The chemistry between Mg-han and Mao Mao, who angrily ll each other “damned gay” and “dumb straight guy” at first, is que warm and builds naturally.

In the week that Taiwan’s hight urt ma history by approvg same-sex marriage, we look back at five films wh lbian, gay or bisexual them Che language cema + FOLLOW. We Are Gay Taiwane Movie - 2017 23.

GAY/BL (TAIWAN)

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Gay Short Film 115 tl. It’s a supernatural BL movie about a du-que p and the gay ad guy’s spir he marri, wh a very warm and edic twist. Recently ceased gay man Mao Mao, played by At L, left, and homophobic p Wu Mg-han, played by Greg Hsu, a scene om "Marry My Dead Body.

May 6, 2023 08:00 JST | TaiwanTAIPEI -- "After the same-sex marriage bill was passed, we sudnly felt that we uld be together for a lifetime, " a gay ghost tells his human hband, a handsome and heavily mcled policeman, the groundbreakg Taiwane movie "Marry My Dead Body. In January, sexual mory rights took another step forward when Print Tsai Ing-wen's Democratic Progrsive Party admistratn moved to regnize gay marriag between Taiwane and non-Taiwane partners, even when such unns are banned the foreign partner's native untry. Gay ‘ghost marriage’ movie ‘Marry My Dead Body’ is htg Taiwan theaters startg Febary 10th!

‘Marry My Dead Body’ tells the story of a homophobic and ghost-phobic straight policeman Wu Mg-han (played by Greg Hsu) who picks up a red envelope while vtigatg a se.

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.