TV & Movie / Sep. 03, 2019
Television, cinema, Lh%znx1iw%e3UHq*&vU@NwUO@Q#fNNQGL#Y*ZrC)fq*HS6q%lBand online streaming services in Asia are set to have a lot more LGBT content, Taiwan-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 withqXUsbDHQt+7gPorRCLl_D_*MT*kRDN0Q+#cG-a8+oxjHWB7c8^ the region’s viewers.
"LGBT content has already gone from w2aQlCNbR9pBP0Z^$g&mcevX5AniOy5=WYXJJ_^4m2lzy-qIUpAhat was once niche to now a part of the mainstream” Lin said.
He noted, for example, more than half of the nominations for Best Picture at this ye&s7Znay%OeyFdUH0&$hU4qjCpIg!9chp^W0m56xj&!eh35d=Nbars Academy Awards featured an LGBT component.
"This is aspirational for Asia, but there are certain territories where the media content landscape has made significant progress inrAhjp2kMx9@=R!_CpNYwl6j9Hxu0T16lQ(c2gjk&jO843frf89 the past several years.”
“Boy Love” or male same-sex romances in Japan K^iARnOn5+uzTstZ(I6M$$WX$ioAuRxdkbd&=RoHKZ&e5w_8=Wand Thailand are booming, Lin noted. The trailer for Thai movie Theory of Love got 1.5 million views in one week.
LGBT content is increasingly appearing in television series in India and movies 0Ih%+O)kggWN+9h2$SualB#ao9(kQd3z&hRQez9&+vPbx=Xk^sin Taiwan, Lin also explained.
Taiwan in May this year became the first country in eIV62-sZx_(s9PeCfOkfdQ0jsAdWQPP9V-yx&PqsHh%T$$W@HzAsia to legalize same-sex marriage. India, meanwhile, decriminalized gay sex.
Both Thailand and Japan, meanwhile, have also seen significant steps towards equal marriage and other LGBT rpoKCNP$iPIQK4IxHj@7jN$Lx25K)CS&%F*dT*i5p5VzLd4AR(nights.
Lin also introduced GagaOOLala, Asia’s first LGBT online streaming service now making productions available lX8O$v%oWU2uvr4wx)BH4r1MLa&PhO6bWwd4f=+2CHSKO+rs4lto one third of the world’s population.
He also introduced production house GOL Studios, which has proq@#Thh+NqLL6_IEb&9aC_y)wwSamQe%lME0pl)+gg3p@j9pZ@ljects on the go across the world from South Korea to the US, Myanmar to Germany.
Content Asia Summit 2019 bought together the region’s moverNdjE%cb6^cVwVycB5gCSERpr=snKdR9viQmSCGmoT=)$u*6bfes and shakers in media production and broadcasting industries.
