So the saying goes: It does not pay to have a secret private life, honesty is a far better option, and particularly so in the world of high finance and politics as David Clive Price's characters who work in financial powerhouses in Hong Kong find out.
Fridae's Hong Kong correspondent Nigel Collett provides a long list of examples where the Hong Kong government is seen to have discriminated against its citizens on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity, and says it's time the government shows leadership and roots out the discrimination practised in its ranks.
Author and Professor of Anthropology Evelyn Blackwood offers a compelling view how lesbian butch-femme couples in the city of Padang, West Sumatra negotiate their transgressive identities and desires, and how their experiences speak to the struggles of sexual minorities elsewhere in Falling Into The Lesbi World, the fifth volume in the Queer Asia Series.
Fridae's Hong Kong correspondent Nigel Collett examines the furore surrounding the Hong Kong Government's appointment of a reparative therapist advocate to train its social welfare staff.
Nigel Collett reviews Island of Demons, a fictional account of the life of Walter Spies, a gay Russian-born German artist, choreographer, musician and natural historian, who moved to Yogyakarta and later Bali where he had left a profound influence on local painters and the evolution of the modern ketjak dance before he was arrested as part of a crackdown on homosexuals in 1938.
Fridae.com's Hong Kong correspondent, Nigel Collett, meets actor, singer and dramatist Pichead Amornsomboom whose musical theatre Mr. Diva's Masterclass will be performed in Hong Kong from 20-22 May.
Fridae.com's Hong Kong correspondent, Nigel Collett, examines Leo Burnett's recent survey of the Hong Kong gay community's spending power and attitudes about being (openly) gay.
Nigel Collett reviews Bangkok Free Fall, book number 10 in mystery writer Richard Stevenson’s Don Strachey private eye series. Four books in the series have been filmed with gay Hollywood actor Chad Allen in the lead role.
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