While the fight for gay marriage and full equality goes on in the United States and other more developed nations, the struggle for acceptance has only just begun for our brothers and sisters elsewhere. Watch the story of Dylan Chen from China, one of the key organisers of Shanghai Pride, mainland China’s first ever Pride season which took place in June this year. The camera follows the young man over the course of two months, and chronicles the ups and downs Dylan and his team experienced in putting together the event. Incidentally, Dylan can be found on Gays.com. Send him a word of encouragement here.
Meanwhile, here’s another interview with Yang Yang and celebrated gay film director Cui Zi’en, masterminds of the Beijing Queer Film Festival which took place up north in the Chinese capital right after Shanghai Pride.
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November 13th, 2009 at 12:58 pm
To help spread the word, I’m re-posting this blog entry to my blog.
http://alainsojourner.typepad.com/blog/2009/11/chinas-gay-community-struggles-to-gain-acceptance.html
November 27th, 2009 at 10:53 pm
here’s another post about this video and its content: http://dgeneratefilms.com/academia/cui-zien-interview-at-4th-beijing-international-queer-film-festival/
you can buy/rent queer china, ‘comrade’ china at the dgenerate films site also.
January 14th, 2010 at 3:18 pm
[...] found its way to the front page of the China Daily (the first report was one about the inaugural Shanghai Pride which happened mid last year). The very first Mr Gay China pageant will be held tomorrow evening in [...]
March 4th, 2010 at 9:14 am
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March 5th, 2010 at 6:24 pm
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