Why you'll see more and more LGBT characters on Asian screens

Television, cH=fs#8oRivIom@8eMLHxo=qqmncTZft0ze!Geeh=d3Z20dIbcEinema, and 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.

Re$a@Fmv1d*0bk_mm5jk^o=t39Mu0jp!xkao+k+9Ur3l*&7FwdC0cent and future productions across Taiwan, Thailand, India, and Japan show LGBT content is ever-more popular with the region’s viewers.

"LGBT content has already gone from what was once nicMeCOj2=P4vmr&i!0JToL^6ioE8+*^oYI89mO1qQ_+R@0Gfsqvshe 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 featuredT@3*a$UzhBL_mZmj8%&3elOOrw5BAqAaXaA**!-1^mXcfNyfCk an LGBT component.

"This is aspirational for Asia, but there are certain territories where the media content landscape has made significant progress 3=idu#%wyhH%S*&XJyi3y-=j7Tj_fPQFT=yE-h3pph^bfKcOrVin the past several years.”

“Boy Love” or male same-sex romances in Japan and Thailand are booming, Lin noted. The trailer for Thai movieMg3L=Fgs_4JrhVY6NCbXJ)g8BoSKDZ5!Y@q4G_DyBKtUbdxXSw Theory of Love got 1.5 million views in one week.

LGBT content is increasingly appearing in television series in InAm#NOGIiMpvl*PvOQ+j8_RBg@(zNrX$1@0yXM1--!NSy2%5^YQdia and movies in Taiwan, Lin also explained.

Taiwan in May this year became the first country in Asia to legalize same-sex marriage. India, meanwhile, decriminali=08*Ku1#lQ1%8#bllzypnPo5%V5pWJs0sdKp9B*U0fCjgMBG0*zed gay sex.

Both Thailand and JapAQE^j7)D4UcBe3vqlBQZ8rrXnWWmb+cvw61ut!m83uiVtzuW2pan, meanwhile, have also seen significant steps towards equal marriage and other LGBT rights.

Lin also introduced GagaOOLala, Asia’s first LGBT online streaming service now makill&n3Vhp^J2BnlIF#HXezTWyJ(gzXEjtMs&nQ#MrdALOq#PdJIng productions available to one third of the world’s population.

He also introduced production house GOL Studios, which has projects on Yo1b!Lf*BqlHf9x3%on@v9xv+5_jnHYFThXC1qjzVR0acso@QCthe go across the world from South Korea to the US, Myanmar to Germany.

Content Asia So7Y8g0o6KzcXThxNtEBh6d^sw6t2#il6FKlPDFSxS2EIl8P%Uvummit 2019 bought together the region’s movers and shakers in media production and broadcasting industries.