Fans of late Canto-pop in Llie Chng, one of the first sgers to e out as gay Hong Kong, flocked to the cy this week to memorate their idol’s ath 20 years ago, revisg his legacy of pneerg works ma durg a socially nservative time. Chng, who was 46 when he died, was known for his sgg, dancg and actg durg the heyday of the cy’s entertament dtry the 1980s and ’90s. His supporters fondly remembered his norm-breakg works, llg him “ahead of time.” Anthony Fung, a profsor at the Che Universy of Hong Kong, said the lol remiscenc of Chng reflect the sire to revive Hong Kong’s cultural fluence.
Contents:
- LLIE CHNG: ASIA'S GAY IN LIV ON 15 YEARS AFTER HIS ATH
- HAPPY TOGETHER: THE NOT-SO-HAPPY TALE OF TWO GAY CHE LOVERS
- INTERVIEW WH AUTHOR OF OUT GAY STAR LLIE CHNG'S BGRAPHY
- KISAH CTA EPIK LLIE CHNG DAN DAFFY TONG: BERAKHIR DENGAN KEMATIAN TRAGIS SANG IKON GAY
- CROWDS FLOCK TO HONG KONG FOR 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF CANTO-POP STAR AND GAY IN LLIE CHNG’S ATH
- LLIE CHNG, 46, POP SGER AND FILM ACTOR GAY ROL
LLIE CHNG: ASIA'S GAY IN LIV ON 15 YEARS AFTER HIS ATH
Llie Chng, one of the first celebri to e out as gay Asia, is still spirg people today. * leslie cheung gay *
Image ptn, Llie Chng was one of the most popular male sgers and actors of the mid-1980sFor the past 15 years fans of tormented superstar Llie Chng, one of the first celebri to e out as gay Asia, have gathered at Hong Kong's Mandar Oriental Hotel to mourn the day he took his own life.
"He showed the [Che-speakg] world that gay people n be posive, bright and worthy of rpect. It was not an easy time to be gay.
At that time, homosexualy was still viewed by many as an illns and abnormaly Hong Kong, pecially after the emergence of the first lol se of Aids 1984.
HAPPY TOGETHER: THE NOT-SO-HAPPY TALE OF TWO GAY CHE LOVERS
Starg Llie Chueng and Tony Lng, Happy Together is the turbulent story of two young gay men om Hong Kong. * leslie cheung gay *
It was not until 1991 that adult gay sex was crimalised the terrory. "The LGBT movement Hong Kong took off the 1990s, when the muny fally beme visible to the public, " Travis Kong, an associate profsor of soclogy rearchg gay culture at The Universy of Hong Kong, told BBC Che.
INTERVIEW WH AUTHOR OF OUT GAY STAR LLIE CHNG'S BGRAPHY
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He went on to star Happy Together directed by Wong Kar Wai - a gay cema classic about a uple who stggle to fd a peaceful -existence. Chng did not proclaim his sexualy as such, but nfsed his love for a source, Rock RerdsImage ptn, Chng wore his inic pair of red high heels a 1997 ncert"In the 1990s, at tim a gay man was still lled 'Aids man' and 'pervert', " says Mr Kong.
KISAH CTA EPIK LLIE CHNG DAN DAFFY TONG: BERAKHIR DENGAN KEMATIAN TRAGIS SANG IKON GAY
Fans of late Canto-pop in Llie Chng, one of the first sgers to e out as gay Hong Kong, flocked to the cy this week to memorate their idol’s... * leslie cheung gay *
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CROWDS FLOCK TO HONG KONG FOR 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF CANTO-POP STAR AND GAY IN LLIE CHNG’S ATH
“[They] were both pneer pop artists, who had a powerful fluence on the Eastern and Wtern gay muni the same perd of time, ” Liu says.
LLIE CHNG, 46, POP SGER AND FILM ACTOR GAY ROL
Courty of The Crern CollectnFor Liu, Chng spired Asia’s gay muny jt by existg. “And beg accepted by his fans—due to his unique charisma and artistic achievements—he really showed that gay people n be themselv a betiful way… He was a signifint figure to me and to my gay circle of iends.
Later, he would say that he was so prsed om the vrl around this tour that he would never perform openly-gay Kwan tells the followg story to illtrate Hong Kong’s views on queer work by queer artists the early ‘00s: “When [Kwan’s 2001 queer film] Lan Yu me out theatrilly Hong Kong, the box-office wasn’t very good, ” he says. Homosexualy was only crimalised Cha 1997, and wasn’t until 2001 that was classified as a mental disorr.