The door has opened wider for gay content in Taiwan since the island became the first in Asia to legalize same-sex marriage in May, and companies like CEO Jay Lin’s Portico Media are hoping to turn…
The firm is ramping up its development of originals on itsplatform, Asia’s first and only OTT streamer for LGBTQ content, and is hosting events to bring industry players in this space together from across the region.
Thai filmmaker and summit attendee Anusorn Soisa-ngim said he was “jealous, honestly” of Taiwan’s marriage law and creative freedoms. “My country produces a lot of boys’-love films and gay content, but they never actually accept At the GOL Summit, participants discussed current trends in Asian LGBT content, agreeing that sex was often expressed less overtly in the region, and budgets are generally low.
The latter might seem like a generic or trivial tale, but such stories “can actually have huge impact in a country like Singapore, where LGBT stories are required to have a sad or tragic ending… because gays are supposed to be seen as having tragic lives,” said Lin. Shooting in censorious China had to happen underground without proper permits, for fear that authorities would shut down production. “I chose to work in China because doing so can help Taiwan reaffirm its own values,” said Chou.
A number of LGBT projects and creators who have hit dead ends in China are trickling over to Taiwan now instead, where Taiwanese partners “are breathing a second life into them,” said Lin.
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