Fridae.com’s Hong Kong correspondent, Nigel Collett, interviews choreographer and dancer Andy Wong, known throughout Hong Kong’s dancing and gay worlds as Dancing Andy, about his life and work.
At 27, Song Jia-lun is the youngest of the three openly gay candidates running for seats as councillors in the Taiwan elections on Saturday. Despite her SM Queen nickname and actively campaigning to legalise sex work, her top issues are related to structural poverty, exploitation of workers, and challenges facing young people.
Wang Chung-ming is one of three openly gay candidates running for seats as councillors as 60 percent of Taiwan's 23 million people go to the polls on Saturday, Nov 27. He tells Fridae what led him to join the elections and how his "multiple identities work have worked in a very interesting way" for him.
Jerome Kugan, co-organiser of the annual Seksualiti Merdeka festival, tells Fridae that because homosexuality is a taboo topic in Malaysia, "lying low is not the answer” and is exactly why the community needs a space to have open dialogues about sex, sexual identity and rights.
Ng Yi-Sheng interviews first-time director Vincent Garenq and finds out what inspired him as a straight man to make Comme Les Autres, a French movie about a gay man trying to become a father.
Transgender activist Yuki Vivienne Choe will make her stage debut in a Malaysian adaptation of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot from 1 to 5 September at the Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Centre.
First profiled in 2007 by Fridae and again in 2008 for his controversial short film based on an incident in which 12 men in Singapore were arrested for gay cruising, Singaporean director Boo Junfeng will no doubt become a household name as his debut feature Sandcastle hits the big screen this month.
The series presents 10 movers and shakers in Asia who are set to bring about positive change in their local lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities.
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