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Contents:

• THIS FILM IS A TALE OF TWO OLR GAY MEN FDG LOVE HONG KONG
• HONG KONG GAY FILM
• 7 LGBTQ+ MOVI TO WATCH: OM ELRLY GAY HONGKONGERS S S, TO HOLLYWOOD’S TRANS REPRENTATN DISCLOSURE
• GAY M/M HONG KONG - (MOVI & DRAMAS)
• 10 GREAT GAY FILMS OM EAST AND SOUTH-EAST ASIA
• BL / GAY - NEW MOVI AND DRAMAS 2020-2021

THIS FILM IS A TALE OF TWO OLR GAY MEN FDG LOVE HONG KONG

” (Strand Releasg) Although numero films and TV shows have featured olr LGBTQ upl — “Cloudburst, ” “Love Is Strange, ” “Vic” and the current “Supernova, ” to name a few — the Hong Kong lole of “Twilight’s Kiss” mak wrer-director Ray Yng’s gently observant, liberately-paced drama about two agg gay men feel uniquely (Tai Bo) is a pragmatic 70-year-old taxi driver on the cp of semi-retirement. Hoi is also closeted to his fay but has much more experience than Pak the gay world cludg beg part of the Mature Tongzhi Society, a supportive circle of senr gay and Hoi meet up aga and slowly enter to a tenr and joyful romance, filled wh small adventur and stolen moments, though the shadow of secrecy and faial prsure looms large. How Pak tends his beloved b speaks movie also offers a vivid view of Hong Kong and s environs, wh a discreet peek to the cy’s gay social scene.

Hong Kong’s LGBTQ+ muny has seen some solid social progrs recent years: The ernment regnized same-sex partnerships spoal visa applitns, the hight urt led that same-sex upl n apply for spoal benefs and file jot tax returns, and a study nducted last year showed that the majory of Hongkongers support gay marriage. Of urse there’s still unrcurrents of homophobia, too, as seen the recent furor over a Cathay Pacific ad featurg a gay uple, the whdrawal of 10 LGBT children’s books om the cy’s librari, and the appotment of an anti-gay marriage polician to the cy’s equali watchdog. This was a tricky list to pile, not least bee Hong Kong cema, gay, lbian, and queer characters are often amed stereotypil ways: as the butt of a joke, or as the protagonist’s “gay iend” whose character has a lghable lack of nuance.

For stance, gay men have largely been portrayed as effemate and wimpy, or “mp mp i, ” much of the history of Hong Kong cema.

HONG KONG GAY FILM

But while recent films pictg LGBTQ+ characters still are far om perfect, there have been some promisg velopments — we’ve had the first mastream film to tackle the topic of transgenrism, portrayals of gay men that go far eper than the trope of “mp mp i, ” and exploratns of the lbian woman’s experience beyond the stereotype of an aggrsive, leather jacket-wearg butch. Sensg that Sam and Rose are not happy together, Wg cis to make her missn to rencile the two lovers, but the procs fds fds herself fallg love wh Sam, and Sam likewise fallg love wh Wg — which leads him to qutn whether he is actually gay.

7 LGBTQ+ MOVI TO WATCH: OM ELRLY GAY HONGKONGERS S S, TO HOLLYWOOD’S TRANS REPRENTATN DISCLOSURE

Sam begs to worry that the whole world will thk he’s gay after Wg lets slip “I love you, Sam” at an awards ceremony, so a bid to ward off spicns about Sam’s sexualy, Wg asks Fan to pretend to be her lover, but Wg soon fds herself fallg for the charismatic star. While not entirely perfect s portrayal of issu relatg to transgenrism, cross-drsg, and homosexualy, ’s fely a groundbreakg and necsary film that ’s the first film about transgenr issu to enter mastream cema Hong Kong.

This betifully-shot die g-out film als wh issu of social nformy, prsn, and ternalized homophobia. Prr to makg Soundls Wd Chime, K Hung ma his name the die film circu wh his short romance film I Am Not What You Want, which has been scribed as signifint Hong Kong’s queer culture for challengg the cy’s stereotyp about gay men. He then mov wh his iend Mark, who is also gay but hasn’t e out to anyone, cludg his girliend.

S S film review: award-wng Hong Kong gay romance follows the twilight affair of two closeted fay men. Wh sensive directn and subtle, genue actg, is an sightful portra of homosexualy tradnal Che society.

GAY M/M HONG KONG - (MOVI & DRAMAS)

This Film Is a Tale of Two Olr Gay Men Fdg Love Hong Kong | AnOtherTwilight’s Kiss, 2021(Film still)No untry for old gay men: Twilight’s Kiss by director Ray Yng imag two men already their formative years and gettg another chance at loveFebary 23, 2021.

“To survive, they’ve had to ignore who they are, ” says director Ray Yng about the olr gay men of Hong Kong, the subject of his latt film, Twilight’s Kiss.

10 GREAT GAY FILMS OM EAST AND SOUTH-EAST ASIA

For a long time, the future was nceivable for gay men. Gay men lived the shadows of society, matag their veneer of heteronormative stabily by marryg straight women at great st to themselv and their fai.

It is Yng’s bt film yet, a meangful and rehg portrayal of the nvenienc of ageg and romance, starrg two olr, closeted gay men. “Invtors don’t see the marketabily and mercial value of old bodi, pecially the ntext of gay films.

There is a lot of ageism the gay scene, ” says Yng. I n’t remember the last time I’ve seen any film, gay or straight, that foced on senr romance. Inspired by Profsor Travis Kong’s Oral Histori of Olr Gay Men Hong Kong, the story follows Pak (Tai Bo), a gff grandfather who swam to Hong Kong durg the Cultural Revolutn and toiled for years as a taxi driver.

BL / GAY - NEW MOVI AND DRAMAS 2020-2021

Intimate moments of rg and kdns are thoughtfully directed as the two men go on dat, strollg through wet markets and seekg refuge a gay sna. In Yng’s film, however, sists that the genre’s lack of such pictns miss a ccial aspect of gay life. Yng looks beyond his ma characters to clu the perspectiv of other olr gay men the muny.

In the movie, he reenacts his appearance at Hong Kong’s legislative uncil, pleadg to allow gay elrs to “live out [their] twilight years wh digny and eedom”. And, the Che-speakg world, gay reprentatn is still sorely lackg (LGBTQ+ ntent beg supprsed Cha and Malaysia), and stori about the love between two grandparents are virtually non-existent.

Gay Movie S. Gay Short Film 115 tl. In many plac, June is the time to celebrate the efforts that the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer (LGBTQ+) muni have ma to be themselv and fight for their celebrate, here are seven LGBTQ+ films to enjoy on streamg platforms – and one a cema – wh your iends this month.

S S (Twilight’s Kiss) (2019, M+ Cema)S S, meang “uncle” Cantone, tells the story of a secret romance between two closeted gay men their twilight years. Havg not lived as their te selv for years, the two fall love and stggle between social norms and personal only do the award-wng film pict the reali that elrly gay men face Hong Kong, but also shows the quiet, timate nature of imagg what uld be a better future.

The Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli. A gay teenager, Simon Spier (Nick Robson), has been hidg his sexualy unr the mask of beg straight like his bt iends, Leah (Kathere Langford), Abby (Alexandra Shipp) and Nick (Je Lenb Jnr) Simon repli to an anonymo onle nfsn om another closeted gay stunt at his school, their exchange is disvered by a classmate, Mart (Logan Miller), who blackmails Simon to lyg to his iends.

Hong Kong movi, dramas, and drama specials wh Gay (M/M) them and characters. Wh more award-wng, g-of-age, and gay romantic movi beg regnised, we’ve picked out the bt LGBTQ+ movi of our time – some of them we’ve cried over – bee ’s sential to celebrate the fact that queer voic exist today’s media.

My Own Private Idaho (1991)My Own Private Idaho follows two bt iends – Mike the gay htler and Stt the rebell son of a mayor – who live on the streets of Portland. The two open themselv up to the ia of homosexualy durg one sleepover. Happy Together (1997)Directed by the ternatnally renowned Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai, Happy Together illtrat the driftg apart of a gay uple while they’re Argenta.

The film picts lonels and homosexual romance the most lite way. It’s a 90s classic for all the gay kids out there who was once beg told that “this is jt a phase” or “you’ll grow out of your queer-ns”.

It talks about how transphobic and homophobic behavurs are graed today’s society, as well as the relatnship among class, race, and genr inty. Defely a movg gay teen love story that will put a se on your face. It shows how female homosexual relatnship was monised back the days.

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.

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.