Life is gettg harr for gay people Cha

Contents:

• CHA’S GAY RIGHTS STANCE CAN’T DERAIL DEMAND FOR LGBT FILMS
• 10 GREAT GAY FILMS OM EAST AND SOUTH-EAST ASIA
• GAY M/M CHA - (MOVI & DRAMAS)
• BL / GAY - NEW MOVI AND DRAMAS 2020-2021
• WARNER BROS BOWS TO CHA MAND TO CENSOR GAY ‘HARRY POTTER’ PLOTLE
• LIFE IS GETTG HARR FOR GAY PEOPLE CHA

CHA’S GAY RIGHTS STANCE CAN’T DERAIL DEMAND FOR LGBT FILMS

LGBTQ film Hong Kong, Taiwan, and even Cha go back nearly three s, wh 1993 particular beg a landmark year wh the sympathetic portrayal of gay characters Ang Lee’s The Weddg Banquet and Chén Kǎigē’s 陈凯歌 Farewell My Concube. Wh East Palace, Wt Palace, based on a story by cult wrer Wáng Xiǎobō 王小波, Zhang st his mera on the secret liv and trysts of gay men Beijg. Due to s explic homosexual them, Zhang had to sneak East Palace, Wt Palace out of Cha and fish France.

Wong Kar-wai’s Happy Together, a romance about an on-and-off gay uple strand Argenta, was met wh wi acclaim and gifted Wong the ftival’s Bt Director Award. At the time of s release, Wong seemed ambivalent about whether Happy Together should be seen as a gay film. Cui’s first work as a screenwrer, the edy-drama Men and Women, was released two years after Cha officially crimalized homosexualy.

10 GREAT GAY FILMS OM EAST AND SOUTH-EAST ASIA

The stori have largely foced on gay men, but one of the most heartfelt is the g-of-age lbian drama Blue Gate Crossg. In s basic premise, the movie is an echo of director Yee Chih-yen’s but Lonely Hearts Club (寂寞芳心俱乐部 jìmò fāngxīn jùlèbù) (1996), which is about an acuntant who disvers her new csh at work is gay. While activists had hoped would clu provisns to legalize gay marriage — particularly as officials acknowledged s cln was one of the most requted revisns durg the open public ment perd for the draft law — Che lawmakers ultimately rejected any l to do so.

GAY M/M CHA - (MOVI & DRAMAS)

Neverthels, the ’s shortg hasn’t hampered the untry’s growg mand for LGBT-themed ntent among creasgly loud and proud gay muni — and the lns of mostly heterosexual female fans of the “boys love” genre, homoerotic stori about gay characters. Cha’s thirst for LGBT stori may be most visible to the general public bee of the populary of boys love, but ’s also due to a general shift toward greater acceptance of LGBT cizens — even among gay people themselv. 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.

BL / GAY - NEW MOVI AND DRAMAS 2020-2021

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. 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.

WARNER BROS BOWS TO CHA MAND TO CENSOR GAY ‘HARRY POTTER’ PLOTLE

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.

LIFE IS GETTG HARR FOR GAY PEOPLE CHA

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).

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).

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.