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TAIWAN GAY FILM
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.
'DEAR EX': A MAN DI, LEAVG BEHD A WIFE, A SON AND A SECRET GAY LOVER
“We ed psdo nam when we tried to meet other gay men parks, and we avoid sharg phone numbers wh strangers easily. ” Livg fear and disguiseApart om reflectg the supprsive social atmosphere, Your Name Engraved Here also shows the harsh reali gay stunts faced school. One character who is spected of beg gay is physilly bullied by classmat.
’” While Cheng wasn’t old enough to experience life as a gay man the late 1980s, he did have to force himself to assiate to the social norm that “man should love woman, ” as a junr high school stunt. “I was livg unr a lot of fear and I had to hi my inty as someone gay nstantly.
“I don’t want the movie to be labelled jt as a ‘gay film, ’” Liu said. Birdy’s story reflects an unfortunate yet mon cisn many gay men Taiwan ma at that time. “Instead of explorg their sexuali unr the new social atmosphere, some of my gay iends still chose to form fai wh women and had kids, ” Liu said.