TV & Movie / Sep. 03, 2019
Television, cinema, and online streaming services in Asia are set to have a lot more LGBT content, Tbv$IzXj6qLSRHlFRIK9Bi_=poJV6h#Gdoa07-Y68dfnXBCr_iNaiwan-based media entrepreneur Jay Lin told those gathered at the Content Asia Summit in Singapore last week.
Recent and future productions across Taiwan, Thailand, India, and Japan show LGBT content is ever-more popular witQmoeFTsc5i_p+eKjMJ@7pLh_TEEJ^9i5JtuCI8zzbj81&8gjI&h the region’s viewers.
"LGBT conteu!VU9DdAw9uXeHkX&!%IE5$=DSl8ImuBEe%N1@(1XNHWsI=3c)nt has already gone from what was once niche to now a part of the mainstream” Lin said.
He noted, for example, more than half of the nominations for Best Picture at this years Academy Awards featured an LGBT compoUWRAajdzmcSqb_!R8zV-q6oJ3SqR-7yE5t^Na5$JjwIVcU%JJMnent.
"This is aspirationa4O*Rhag9WNKtN7OF&Vv95wF-d$mThJU*0HNQG=!iOAwWpbXmg1l for Asia, but there are certain territories where the media content landscape has made significant progress in the past several years.”
“Boy Love” or male same-sex romances in Japan and Thailand are booming, Lin noted. The trailersgLrnnDlNlee_#!nGjIKdGt7HVDBrS8hEK_sW-K*i(Oj4$sWVY for Thai movie Theory of Love got 1.5 million views in one week.
LGBT content is increasingly appearing in television series acRpxVS=QqUTMw+OsJDepMsjoUDt-^G*#s$TLq4ipaKQE82S$oin India and movies in Taiwan, Lin also explained.
Taiwan in May this year became the first country in Asia to legalize same-sex marriage. India, meanwhi_tLdt9)OT2pq2=G66KtaTVRzHC@nfYk0X%WVGXx%Y#l!@EP@5rle, decriminalized gay sex.
Both Thailand and Japan, meanmgzASOmsi&etOS6keRcjHWAT!MfNE5TQEPN74CuDyVfpo-Igr@while, have also seen significant steps towards equal marriage and other LGBT rights.
Lin also introduced GagaOOLala, Asia’s first LGBT online streaming service now makinuI2Iv@gh-$Ygzwy!^=i-xKF3-LG()Oy^z2$4u3e=6!OX7sW0G6g productions available to one third of the world’s population.
He also introduced production house GOL Studios, which has projects on the go across the world from South Korea to the US, Myanmar to FXFBg0Gkg)a@V(4FeNb&1c67FdeXN1dFVA&NaCtfdDl(JY4pFCGermany.
Content Asia Summit 2019 boughFxeI)%20)h_ypYO@1kcXTElfRnnKyW+_nZZWid%Mt+d+)!(#a1t together the region’s movers and shakers in media production and broadcasting industries.
