Four times as many individuals in a same-sex relationship than in a straight one have reportedly been victimised by physical assault, according to a landmark study by the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and the Women Coalition of HKSAR.
Nigel Collett goes behind the cameras at GDotTV, a new web-based gay Internet TV station featuring original programming such as LGBT Hotspot, Hong Kong Salvation - a news and culture programme and LGBT Speaks - a chat show.
Nigel Collett reviews J. Neil C. Garcia’s 536-page Philippine Gay Culture, in which he examines a range of labels/identities that emerged since the 1960s to describe indigenous sexual and gender identities which have little modern (western) equivalents.
Playwright Rob McBride examines the West’s exposure to Thailand’s sex trade through the eyes of a naïve Australian protagonist who found himself robbed by a 'transgender' prostitute the morning after - in Katoey, a recent play at Hong Kong’s Fringe Club.
Fridae’s Hong Kong correspondent Nigel Collett meets with one of the city’s most prominent gay activists, Kenneth Cheung Kam-hung, who became active in gay and HIV/AIDS activism after being diagnosed with AIDS just months after his A-level exams.
Fridae meets Kit Hung, director of the award winning film, Soundless Wind Chime, which will hit Hong Kong screens in the summer, followed by cinemas in North America, the United Kingdom and Europe.
Nigel Collett reviews Wenqing Kang’s new book 'Obsession: Male Same-Sex Relations in China, 1900-1950' which spans the dissolution of the Qing Empire, the chaos of its successor regimes, the Guomingdang period and the war against Japan.
Hong Kong director Danny Cheng Wan Cheung who's better known as Scud and leading actor, Sean Li of Permanent Residence tell more about their latest movie about an unlikely love affair between two gay and straight men.
Nigel Collett speaks with prolific playwright Pak Li who at 28 has written 40 scripts, of which all but two have been performed. Pak reveals what inspired his latest, Rope of Love, a play about the lives of three gay men, some of the stranger and darker byways of gay life, and promiscuous and dangerous sex.
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