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.
The Man Singapore Theatre Festival is being held once again from 3 to 21 August, helmed by the notoriously queer-friendly company W!ld Rice. We look at the lineup and interview young playwright Joel Tan, author of the gay-themed play Family Outing.
“You have to love someone to suck someone,” says Scud (real name Danny Cheng Wan-Cheung), director of Love Actually... Sucks! Scud shares his views on love, his film, and his struggles with censors in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Meanwhile, a release date has not been set as the Hong Kong censor has demanded 11 cuts, and Taiwan authorities five.
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.
An upcoming play by beloved Singapore songwriter Dick Lee exposes the seamy world of male beauty pageants. Fridae chats with the hunky actors playing the contestants: Eli Tee, Kaeng Chan and Rodney Oliveiro.
Two years into full-time theatrical work, Clifton Kwan is plunging head first into developing his career. Raymond Ko talks to the gay Hong Kong actor/producer about himself and about his latest play Mars.
Seven years after it was first performed, Joey Leung and Alvin Wong’s The Queer Show, which is playing from July 14-24, has became a landmark in the Hong Kong’s comedy scene. Raymond Ko of Fridae.com talks to Joey Leung about his show and his life.
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.
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