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"Firelight of a Different Colour" is a new biography of Hong Kong superstar Leslie Cheung Kwok-wing. The author, Nigel Collett, was kind enough to answer some of our questions about the actor, singer, songwriter, and director about Cheung's stardom and sexuality.

How hard should you lobby for equality and how quickly should you expect attitudes to change? Two of Hong Kong's most important advocates of equality for LGBT people, York Chow Yat-ngok and Professor Fanny Cheung Miu-ching, have differing approaches. Fridae's Hong Kong correspondent Nigel Collett reports.