CANCELLED
DUE TO THE UPTICK IN COVID-19 CASES IN HONG KONG,
THE FOLLOWING EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED
THE FOLLOWING EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED
Love in the Twilight Years
Screening of Suk Suk and Discussion on Ageing and Romance
Louis Koo Cinema,
Hong Kong Arts Centre
A Fundraiser in Support of Pink Season
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Are we ever too old for love?
追求愛情有年齡限制嗎？
Pink Alliance and Tongzhi Literary Group present an evening of film and discussion exploring ageing and sexuality, featuring the award-winning film Suk Suk and the book that inspired the story, Oral Histories of Older Gay Men in Hong Kong: Unspoken but Unforgotten.
粉紅同盟和同志文學小組為大家呈獻《叔·叔》放映與對談會。改編自《男男正傳︰香港年長男同志口述史》，電影講述老年男同志與愛情的故事，而當晚更有一眾嘉賓與大家就相關議題作深度交流。
Louis Koo Cinema, Hong Kong Arts Centre
香港藝術中心古天樂電影院
Advance booking only: Admission 門票 $300
Order tickets before July 10 for a 10% discount.
追求愛情有年齡限制嗎？
Pink Alliance and Tongzhi Literary Group present an evening of film and discussion exploring ageing and sexuality, featuring the award-winning film Suk Suk and the book that inspired the story, Oral Histories of Older Gay Men in Hong Kong: Unspoken but Unforgotten.
粉紅同盟和同志文學小組為大家呈獻《叔·叔》放映與對談會。改編自《男男正傳︰香港年長男同志口述史》，電影講述老年男同志與愛情的故事，而當晚更有一眾嘉賓與大家就相關議題作深度交流。
Louis Koo Cinema, Hong Kong Arts Centre
香港藝術中心古天樂電影院
Advance booking only: Admission 門票 $300
Order tickets before July 10 for a 10% discount.
Suk Suk (叔 叔) tells the story of two closeted men in their twilight years, Pak, a 70-year-old married taxi driver who refuses to retire, and Hoi, a 65-year-old retired single father. Despite years of societal and personal pressure, they are proud of the families they have created through hard work and determination. Yet, when they meet, something that had been suppressed for so many years is unleashed in them.
《叔·叔》的故事圍繞著兩位躲在櫃裡多年的男同志。柏，一個永不言休的70歲的士司機，和海，一個65歲的單身父親。雖經多年的社會和自我壓迫，能令他們自豪的，是他們努力建立的家庭。想不到當他們遇上對方，多年來抑壓內心的渴望卻釋放出來。
《叔·叔》的故事圍繞著兩位躲在櫃裡多年的男同志。柏，一個永不言休的70歲的士司機，和海，一個65歲的單身父親。雖經多年的社會和自我壓迫，能令他們自豪的，是他們努力建立的家庭。想不到當他們遇上對方，多年來抑壓內心的渴望卻釋放出來。
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In Oral Histories of Older Gay Men in Hong Kong: Unspoken but Unforgotten, Travis Kong shines a light on ageing and sexuality, identity and masculinity, power and resistance through 13 gay men who share their lives in this groundbreaking work.
在《男男正傳︰香港年長男同志口述史》中，江紹祺透過13位男同志的故事，探視老年與性取向、身份與男子氣概、權力與反抗等議題。 The film is in Cantonese with English subtitles. The panel discussion will be presented bilingually. |
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Wednesday, 15 July 2020
7:00 - 10:00 pm Location Louis Koo Cinema Hong Kong Arts Centre 2 Harbour Road Wan Chai Admission is $300. Book through Eventbrite. Attendees must wear a mask while inside the theatre. |
PAST TALKS
17 OCTOBER 2019
Stories from Queer Asia
Intimate Strangers and Sanctuary
Fiction and nonfiction writers explore life and love in Asia through in two new volumes from Signal 8 Press: Intimate Strangers: True Stories from Queer Asia and Sanctuary: Tales from Queer Asia.
Jenna Collett, Beatrice Wong, Edward Gunawan and Simon Wu share their honest, intimate accounts of life as they navigate the multiplicity of cultures and values in the Asia-Pacific region and beyond.
Intimate Strangers and Sanctuary can be found on Amazon in Kindle and paperback formats. Signal 8 Press is at signal8press.com and tweets @Signal8Press.
This event presented as part of Pink Season 2019.
Jenna Collett, Beatrice Wong, Edward Gunawan and Simon Wu share their honest, intimate accounts of life as they navigate the multiplicity of cultures and values in the Asia-Pacific region and beyond.
Intimate Strangers and Sanctuary can be found on Amazon in Kindle and paperback formats. Signal 8 Press is at signal8press.com and tweets @Signal8Press.
This event presented as part of Pink Season 2019.
25 APRIL 2019
Travel, Place and Gender Identity
Michael Luongo Looks at Conflict Zone LGBT Rights
Journalist, novelist and writing instructor Michael Luongo will look at dislocation in place and the sense of the temporary – being in one location while thinking of another and never knowing the “right” place to be. His talk will touch on LGBT issues and human rights related to travel, including the impact of conflict and occupation on LGBT communities in places such as Iraq and Afghanistan.
And Lingnan University student Paul Lu Han reads from modern gay classic Call Me By Your Name, by André Aciman.
And Lingnan University student Paul Lu Han reads from modern gay classic Call Me By Your Name, by André Aciman.
31 JANUARY 2019
Robert Mapplethorpe Uncovered
Art or Pornography? Fiona Perry Explores the Work of the Erotic Photographer
Robert Mapplethorpe was a controversial artist who lived a complicated life. Was this due to the political climate of his time in the 1970s and ’80s that featured protests about homosexuality and racial inequality? Or was it the subject matter of his still-life photos that many found objectionable? His artwork was sometimes described as porn, but was this a political statement or a personal one –Mapplethorpe’s way of expressing himself and letting the world know about his sexuality?
Erotic art from Greece, the Roman Empire, Japan, India and elsewhere has been around for centuries. Today historians view erotica as an important historical genre--so if Mapplethorpe was alive today would his artwork still be viewed as controversial or would he be more straightforwardly classified as a technical and artistic genius in still-life photography?
Fiona Perry explores the work of the photographer, marking the 30th anniversary of his death.
Erotic art from Greece, the Roman Empire, Japan, India and elsewhere has been around for centuries. Today historians view erotica as an important historical genre--so if Mapplethorpe was alive today would his artwork still be viewed as controversial or would he be more straightforwardly classified as a technical and artistic genius in still-life photography?
Fiona Perry explores the work of the photographer, marking the 30th anniversary of his death.
SNEAK PEEK
Intimate Strangers: True Stories from Queer Asia
Family, love, friendship, acceptance—not one of these pillars of happiness is certain for LGBTQ+ people. Yet, despite social and legal conventions across Asia and beyond, the fifteen writers collected in Intimate Strangers (forthcoming from Signal 8 Press) have built lives of fulfilment and joy.
This collection showcases the nonfiction work of writers living life on their own authentic terms. Experimental, nostalgic, provocative, and poignant, these stories—of devoted daughters; boys coming of age; a transgender woman; and gay, queer, and bi parents—are unified by their excellence and by the risks the writers take. Together they form a rich community of voices that reflects the diversity of LGBTQ+ life across east Asia today.
A volume of fiction pieces is also being finalised for publication.
Gregg Schroeder reads "Kaleidoscope: Memoir of a Hong Kong Boy" by Simon Wu from the collection to be published later this year.
Intimate Strangers: True Stories from Queer Asia
Family, love, friendship, acceptance—not one of these pillars of happiness is certain for LGBTQ+ people. Yet, despite social and legal conventions across Asia and beyond, the fifteen writers collected in Intimate Strangers (forthcoming from Signal 8 Press) have built lives of fulfilment and joy.
This collection showcases the nonfiction work of writers living life on their own authentic terms. Experimental, nostalgic, provocative, and poignant, these stories—of devoted daughters; boys coming of age; a transgender woman; and gay, queer, and bi parents—are unified by their excellence and by the risks the writers take. Together they form a rich community of voices that reflects the diversity of LGBTQ+ life across east Asia today.
A volume of fiction pieces is also being finalised for publication.
Gregg Schroeder reads "Kaleidoscope: Memoir of a Hong Kong Boy" by Simon Wu from the collection to be published later this year.
Members' Choice: Nigel Collett and John Potter read from works of their choosing.
20 SEPTEMBER 2018
Depression Post-Leslie Cheung
Edward Gunawan Discusses Mental Health in the LGBT Community and Travis Kong unveils his new book on transnational Chinese male homosexualities:《華人男同志跨地域研究》(CUHK, 2018)
Project Press Play
Fifteen years ago, one of Hong Kong brightest superstars, Leslie Cheung, abruptly doused his own light. The first word on his suicide note read: “Depression!”
Like Cheung and countless others, writer-filmmaker Edward Gunawan has his own struggles with mental health – a serious issue that disproportionately affects the LGBT community. Recent news reports of celebrity suicides could lead one to wonder: Is this the only end befitting someone who lives with mental health challenges?
Join us for an evening to remember beloved actor-singer Cheung and to hear Gunawan’s personal journey that inspired him to create Project Press Play, a non-profit online portal that invites all of us not just to cope and survive in the face of adversity, but to live well and thrive.
Project Press Play is a non-profit online portal to promote mental health wellness and awareness. For more information, visit addword.com.
Like Cheung and countless others, writer-filmmaker Edward Gunawan has his own struggles with mental health – a serious issue that disproportionately affects the LGBT community. Recent news reports of celebrity suicides could lead one to wonder: Is this the only end befitting someone who lives with mental health challenges?
Join us for an evening to remember beloved actor-singer Cheung and to hear Gunawan’s personal journey that inspired him to create Project Press Play, a non-profit online portal that invites all of us not just to cope and survive in the face of adversity, but to live well and thrive.
Project Press Play is a non-profit online portal to promote mental health wellness and awareness. For more information, visit addword.com.
Chinese Male Homosexualities《華人男同志跨地域研究》
The Chinese edition of Travis Kong’s research into Chinese same-sex experience in Hong Kong, mainland China and the UK,《華人男同志跨地域研究》(CUHK, 2018), is a translated version of Kong’s English book Chinese Male Homosexualities (Routledge, 2011). This is the first sociological study that uses the notion of “sexual citizenship” to examine Chinese men with same-sex experiences, through 90 life stories. In this talk, Kong will discuss the major findings of the research and then highlight what has changed (or has not changed) in terms of the development of gay identity and the fight for sexual citizenship in these three locales over the past decade.
1 MARCH 2018
Press Freedom, Local Scandal and Gay Rights
Journalist Michael Mosettig and biographer Nigel Collett to Present
Emmy Award-winning journalist Michael Mosettig discusses press freedom and gay rights in the Donald Trump era. And Nigel Collett presents his new book, A Death in Hong Kong: The MacLennan Case of 1980 and the Suppression of a Scandal (CityU HK Press, 2018).
Media in Age of Trump
The United States has – for the first time in history – a president who does not merely dislike and criticise the media, but one who actively fights it. Donald Trump openly mobilises his supporters to join in his attack on the media.
Now the media are fighting back and some, including The New York Times and the Washington Post, are doing better journalism as a result.
Also unlike previous American presidents who have tried to expand beyond their core supporters, Trump relies increasingly upon his narrow base. Key in that core is the religious right, whose agenda includes rolling back gains in gay rights. Trump was previously as agnostic on LGBT matters as he was on anything having to do with religion; now, he has bought into this anti-LGBT agenda. In some ways, Trump’s actions are superficial: not inviting gay media to the White House Christmas party for the press. Other acts, however, are more serious: stripping protections in federal regulations and trying to halt transgender enlistment in the military.
Mosettig discusses how this matters to the LGBT community around the world.
The United States has – for the first time in history – a president who does not merely dislike and criticise the media, but one who actively fights it. Donald Trump openly mobilises his supporters to join in his attack on the media.
Now the media are fighting back and some, including The New York Times and the Washington Post, are doing better journalism as a result.
Also unlike previous American presidents who have tried to expand beyond their core supporters, Trump relies increasingly upon his narrow base. Key in that core is the religious right, whose agenda includes rolling back gains in gay rights. Trump was previously as agnostic on LGBT matters as he was on anything having to do with religion; now, he has bought into this anti-LGBT agenda. In some ways, Trump’s actions are superficial: not inviting gay media to the White House Christmas party for the press. Other acts, however, are more serious: stripping protections in federal regulations and trying to halt transgender enlistment in the military.
Mosettig discusses how this matters to the LGBT community around the world.
A Death in Hong Kong:
The MacLennan Case of 1980 and the Suppression of a Scandal
In January 1980, a young police officer named John MacLennan committed suicide in his Ho Man Tin flat. His death came hours before he was to be arrested for committing homosexual acts still, at that point, illegal in Hong Kong. But this was more than the desperate act of a young man ashamed or afraid; both his death and the subsequent investigation were a smokescreen for a scandal that went to the heart of the establishment.
MacLennan came to Hong Kong from Scotland during a time of social unrest and corruption scandals, a time when the triads still took their cut, and when homosexuality and paedophilia were considered interchangeable and offered easy targets for bribery. The governorship of Sir Murray MacLehose was to be a time of reform and progress, but with that remit came the determination of many to suppress scandals and silence those who stirred up trouble. Both the life and death of John MacLennan seemed to many of those in power to threaten the stability of one of Britain’s last colonies.
All this happened nearly forty years ago. Is it relevant today? “The MacLennan case is an extreme example of what discrimination, in this case on the basis of sexuality, can do,” Collett said in a recent interview. “Lives can be lost. Yes, things have improved since homosexual activity was decriminalised in 1991, but we can’t be complacent. The social stigma is still there and without an effective anti-discrimination law, that won’t change.”
A Death in Hong Kong opens a window on the attitudes to homosexuality and paedophilia of the late colonial era.
Andrew Ashley talks with Nigel Collett: A Death in Hong Kong
The MacLennan Case of 1980 and the Suppression of a Scandal
In January 1980, a young police officer named John MacLennan committed suicide in his Ho Man Tin flat. His death came hours before he was to be arrested for committing homosexual acts still, at that point, illegal in Hong Kong. But this was more than the desperate act of a young man ashamed or afraid; both his death and the subsequent investigation were a smokescreen for a scandal that went to the heart of the establishment.
MacLennan came to Hong Kong from Scotland during a time of social unrest and corruption scandals, a time when the triads still took their cut, and when homosexuality and paedophilia were considered interchangeable and offered easy targets for bribery. The governorship of Sir Murray MacLehose was to be a time of reform and progress, but with that remit came the determination of many to suppress scandals and silence those who stirred up trouble. Both the life and death of John MacLennan seemed to many of those in power to threaten the stability of one of Britain’s last colonies.
All this happened nearly forty years ago. Is it relevant today? “The MacLennan case is an extreme example of what discrimination, in this case on the basis of sexuality, can do,” Collett said in a recent interview. “Lives can be lost. Yes, things have improved since homosexual activity was decriminalised in 1991, but we can’t be complacent. The social stigma is still there and without an effective anti-discrimination law, that won’t change.”
A Death in Hong Kong opens a window on the attitudes to homosexuality and paedophilia of the late colonial era.
Andrew Ashley talks with Nigel Collett: A Death in Hong Kong
31 AUGUST 2017
Members' Choice
An evening of favourites. TLG members share the works written by themselves and by authors they enjoy. Readers include Norm Yip, Don Davies, Edward Gunawan, Gregg Schroeder, Eric Lowe, Susan Lavender and Andrew Ashley.
23 MARCH 2017
Speculative Fiction and Marriage Equality
Novelist Edmund Price and Prof. Lee Badgett Present
Edmund Price reads from his latest novel, Opening Bifrost, and other works.
Professor of economics M.V. Lee Badgett discusses her most recent book, When Gay People Get Married: What Happens When Societies Legalize Same-Sex Marriage, examining issues in marriage debates in European countries and the United States. Badgett is director of the Center for Public Policy and Administration at the University of Amherst, Massachusetts, in the United States and a visiting researcher at Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Professor of economics M.V. Lee Badgett discusses her most recent book, When Gay People Get Married: What Happens When Societies Legalize Same-Sex Marriage, examining issues in marriage debates in European countries and the United States. Badgett is director of the Center for Public Policy and Administration at the University of Amherst, Massachusetts, in the United States and a visiting researcher at Chinese University of Hong Kong.
8 DECEMBER 2016
Afterness: Asian Perspectives from Around the World
Ladylit: How Lesbian Romance Makes for Good Business
The literary works of writers living and writing fluidly across real and metaphorical boundaries presented alongside the indie success story of a locally-based lesbian press.
Afterness: Literature from the New Transnational Asia
Poetry and fiction, memoir and lyrical essay: Afterness showcases the perspectives of 65 writers whose lives are based in or touch upon Asia; all are graduates (or soon to be) of the City University of Hong Kong Master of Fine Arts program, started by author Xu Xi in 2010 and closed by the university last year to the highly-publicized dismay of the international literary community. The anthology is a university-funded legacy project for the program unveiled in November at the Hong Kong International Literary Festival.
Gregg Schroeder, Michelle Wong, Danielle Van-De-Broucke, Clint Ettinger and Sonia FL Leung present.
Poetry and fiction, memoir and lyrical essay: Afterness showcases the perspectives of 65 writers whose lives are based in or touch upon Asia; all are graduates (or soon to be) of the City University of Hong Kong Master of Fine Arts program, started by author Xu Xi in 2010 and closed by the university last year to the highly-publicized dismay of the international literary community. The anthology is a university-funded legacy project for the program unveiled in November at the Hong Kong International Literary Festival.
Gregg Schroeder, Michelle Wong, Danielle Van-De-Broucke, Clint Ettinger and Sonia FL Leung present.
Ladylit Publishing
Indie publishing dynamos Caroline Manchoulas and Harper Bliss will discuss the publishing house they have built since 2012 that has grown to offer 50 lesbian romance and erotica titles – including novels, novellas and anthologies. Originally created to publish titles by Bliss, the imprint now carries the works of seven authors and can be found on Amazon, iBooks and other platforms.
Manchoulas discusses how the self-employed couple did it – from the early days of Ladylit and its astronomical growth to their marketing tools and plans for the future. Bliss also reads from her latest novels.
Indie publishing dynamos Caroline Manchoulas and Harper Bliss will discuss the publishing house they have built since 2012 that has grown to offer 50 lesbian romance and erotica titles – including novels, novellas and anthologies. Originally created to publish titles by Bliss, the imprint now carries the works of seven authors and can be found on Amazon, iBooks and other platforms.
Manchoulas discusses how the self-employed couple did it – from the early days of Ladylit and its astronomical growth to their marketing tools and plans for the future. Bliss also reads from her latest novels.
Read Andrew Ashley's interview with the publishing juggernaut.
29 SEPTEMBER 2016
Xu Xi Introduces That Man in Our Lives &
Marshall Moore Explores A Garden Fed by Lightning
Author Xu Xi examines lives lived across cultural boundaries and the fluidity of self in her ambitious new transnational novel, and writer-publisher Marshall Moore lures readers down dark, uncharted paths in his new collection.
That Man in Our Lives
By Xu Xi
In That Man in Our Lives, New York is the perch from which the shifting balance of power between China and the United States is explored. It is a tale of lifelong friendships between Gordon Ashberry – “Gordie” or “Hui Guo 灰果” – and his two best friends Harold Haight and Larry Woo and their families. Born into wealth, Gordon is a Sinophile who has never held a job, married or raised children. When Gordon turns fifty he tells Harold, a tax lawyer, that he wants to give all his money away. An opportunistic young Chinese writer learns of this and approaches Gordon to write a book about his decision; the book becomes a minor cult success. The ensuing publicity sends him into self-imposed exile, including from all his friends. The novel opens when Gordon is fifty-five and decides to disappear during a flight delay in Tokyo. The pre- and post-fallout around his disappearance informs this novel about that friend who has always been in your life, until he isn’t, and how much or little we know of those we think we know well.
A Garden Fed by Lightning
By Marshall Moore
Marshall Moore’s short fiction is propelled by a scathing wit and a dark imagination. Moore does not shy away from taking readers down roads not only less travelled, but not even charted on a map.
In the title story, a con man cons a beguiling con artist … or does he? In “Grape Night,” a new arrival in Hong Kong enjoys the pleasures and terrors of a wine-tasting party with visiting gods from the Greek pantheon. In “Underground,” the gay minotaurs who secretly control urban life welcome a new member of their bloodthirsty elite. Throughout A Garden Fed by Lightning, as in his two previous short story collections, Moore spans multiple genres of fiction and subverts them all.
By Xu Xi
In That Man in Our Lives, New York is the perch from which the shifting balance of power between China and the United States is explored. It is a tale of lifelong friendships between Gordon Ashberry – “Gordie” or “Hui Guo 灰果” – and his two best friends Harold Haight and Larry Woo and their families. Born into wealth, Gordon is a Sinophile who has never held a job, married or raised children. When Gordon turns fifty he tells Harold, a tax lawyer, that he wants to give all his money away. An opportunistic young Chinese writer learns of this and approaches Gordon to write a book about his decision; the book becomes a minor cult success. The ensuing publicity sends him into self-imposed exile, including from all his friends. The novel opens when Gordon is fifty-five and decides to disappear during a flight delay in Tokyo. The pre- and post-fallout around his disappearance informs this novel about that friend who has always been in your life, until he isn’t, and how much or little we know of those we think we know well.
A Garden Fed by Lightning
By Marshall Moore
Marshall Moore’s short fiction is propelled by a scathing wit and a dark imagination. Moore does not shy away from taking readers down roads not only less travelled, but not even charted on a map.
In the title story, a con man cons a beguiling con artist … or does he? In “Grape Night,” a new arrival in Hong Kong enjoys the pleasures and terrors of a wine-tasting party with visiting gods from the Greek pantheon. In “Underground,” the gay minotaurs who secretly control urban life welcome a new member of their bloodthirsty elite. Throughout A Garden Fed by Lightning, as in his two previous short story collections, Moore spans multiple genres of fiction and subverts them all.
21 JULY 2016
Peter Wood Presents New Memoir
Nigel Collett Discusses MacLennan Affair
Mud Between Your Toes: A Rhodesian Farm
A memoir by Peter Wood
This is a story about identity in a world gone awry. Peter Wood is an African. A white African. He is also Chinese. A white Chinese. And he is gay.
Based on diaries Wood began forty years ago, the story begins in Hong Kong and tracks back to Wood’s teen years surrounded by the beauty of a wild Southern African farm, tormented by his sexuality and first sexual experience and scarred by the civil war that raged on his family’s doorstep. The mid-1970s was a dangerous time in Rhodesia, but an innocent time too, when children were left to amuse themselves among snakes, crocodiles and wildlife, enjoying a freedom and fragile innocence that might snap at any time. As Wood the boy grew up, he found himself separated from his best friend, and discovers a world where black does not mix with white.
A memoir by Peter Wood
This is a story about identity in a world gone awry. Peter Wood is an African. A white African. He is also Chinese. A white Chinese. And he is gay.
Based on diaries Wood began forty years ago, the story begins in Hong Kong and tracks back to Wood’s teen years surrounded by the beauty of a wild Southern African farm, tormented by his sexuality and first sexual experience and scarred by the civil war that raged on his family’s doorstep. The mid-1970s was a dangerous time in Rhodesia, but an innocent time too, when children were left to amuse themselves among snakes, crocodiles and wildlife, enjoying a freedom and fragile innocence that might snap at any time. As Wood the boy grew up, he found himself separated from his best friend, and discovers a world where black does not mix with white.
A Death in Hong Kong: The Suppression of a Scandal
By Nigel Collett
Nigel Collett pieces together the life and death of Inspector John MacLennan of the Royal Hong Kong Police Force, whose body was found in his police quarters in Ho Man Tin in January 1980. In A Death in Hong Kong: The Suppression of a Scandal, MacLennan’s death is viewed in the context of the political and social developments in Hong Kong. Collett gets to what really happened, against a backdrop of corruption and attitudes to homosexuality in the colony.
MacLennan’s death was caused by five bullets fired from his own police revolver. He was about to be arrested by the Special Investigation Unit and charged with gross indecency with male prostitutes. An inquiry found that MacLennan had committed suicide. Although the inquiry revealed a good deal of police misconduct and gave hints of deeper issues that were not made public, its report gave no cause for any action against anyone involved.
A Death in Hong Kong opens a window on colonial administration and policing, and the attitudes to homosexuality and paedophilia of the late colonial era.
By Nigel Collett
Nigel Collett pieces together the life and death of Inspector John MacLennan of the Royal Hong Kong Police Force, whose body was found in his police quarters in Ho Man Tin in January 1980. In A Death in Hong Kong: The Suppression of a Scandal, MacLennan’s death is viewed in the context of the political and social developments in Hong Kong. Collett gets to what really happened, against a backdrop of corruption and attitudes to homosexuality in the colony.
MacLennan’s death was caused by five bullets fired from his own police revolver. He was about to be arrested by the Special Investigation Unit and charged with gross indecency with male prostitutes. An inquiry found that MacLennan had committed suicide. Although the inquiry revealed a good deal of police misconduct and gave hints of deeper issues that were not made public, its report gave no cause for any action against anyone involved.
A Death in Hong Kong opens a window on colonial administration and policing, and the attitudes to homosexuality and paedophilia of the late colonial era.
21 APRIL 2016
Ray Yeung Presents Film Shorts
Brian Leung Discusses David Bowie's Influence
Independent filmmaker Ray Yeung presents two short films and writer-broadcaster-activist Brian Leung discusses his writing and the late David Bowie's influence on his life and LGBTIQ culture.
In Yeung’s Entwine, a once-loving relationship has disintegrated into indifference and betrayal, leaving Danny questioning his commitment. In Paper Wrap Fire, a Chinese-American teenager is left waiting in a community centre while his single mother goes to work. A sequence of events unfolds which leads him on an unexpected journey.
Yeung also discusses the making of his second feature film Front Cover in New York.
Leung, a veteran broadcaster in Hong Kong, hosts Chinese-language LGBT radio programme “We Are Family” (自己人) on RTHK Radio 2. Leung reads his recent column on the impact of David Bowie and his music on his own life, and the lives of questioning youth in the 1970s, '80s and beyond.
In Yeung’s Entwine, a once-loving relationship has disintegrated into indifference and betrayal, leaving Danny questioning his commitment. In Paper Wrap Fire, a Chinese-American teenager is left waiting in a community centre while his single mother goes to work. A sequence of events unfolds which leads him on an unexpected journey.
Yeung also discusses the making of his second feature film Front Cover in New York.
Leung, a veteran broadcaster in Hong Kong, hosts Chinese-language LGBT radio programme “We Are Family” (自己人) on RTHK Radio 2. Leung reads his recent column on the impact of David Bowie and his music on his own life, and the lives of questioning youth in the 1970s, '80s and beyond.
21 JANUARY 2016
Li Xiang Lan: The Story of Yoshiko Yamaguchi
Singer, propaganda film star and politician Yoshiko Yamaguchi, who died in 2014 aged 94, walked the line between the China of her birth and the Japan of her ancestry; accused of collaboration with the Japanese, the actress whose stage name was Li Xian Lan took her performing talents to Japan, Hollywood, Broadway and Hong Kong. Later in life, Yamaguchi worked as a television journalist covering Palestine and the Vietnam War before serving 18 years in the Japanese parliament.
Eric Lowe tells her story in Li Xiang Lan: The Story of Yoshiko Yamaguchi.
Eric Lowe tells her story in Li Xiang Lan: The Story of Yoshiko Yamaguchi.
Also, special guest John Potter reads a selection from the wit and wisdom of David Sedaris.
15 OCTOBER 2015
Gay and Growing Older: Film A City of Two Tales &
Something Positive: Living with HIV in the SAR
Journalist and cinematographer Owen Fung presents A City of Two Tales /《雙城記》, a film by Tony Zhiyang Lin, focusing on Nigel and Shmily, two gay men coping with the ageing process in ever-vibrant Hong Kong. Fung, a broadcast journalist, acted as assistant director for the project.
The thirty-minute bilingual film, screened for the first time in Hong Kong, features Nigel, an Oxford-educated entrepreneur who recently married his Singaporean husband, and Shmily, a lifelong Hongkonger who lives alone in poverty and relies on government aid. These men might never meet in socially segregated Hong Kong, but in this short film they share a virtual dialogue on the past, present and future about being gay and getting older.
Although they did not meet during the making of the film, Nigel and Smiley meet face-to-face at the TLG talk.
The thirty-minute bilingual film, screened for the first time in Hong Kong, features Nigel, an Oxford-educated entrepreneur who recently married his Singaporean husband, and Shmily, a lifelong Hongkonger who lives alone in poverty and relies on government aid. These men might never meet in socially segregated Hong Kong, but in this short film they share a virtual dialogue on the past, present and future about being gay and getting older.
Although they did not meet during the making of the film, Nigel and Smiley meet face-to-face at the TLG talk.
Andrew Chidgey, Chief Executive of AIDS Concern, presents a collection of stories entitled Something Positive /《十愛 － 十個 Positive 的故事》. The book, produced by AIDS Concern to celebrate its twenty-fifth anniversary in Hong Kong, depicts the moving and sometimes surprising ways people adapt to cope with HIV and AIDS. The stories challenge the reader to reassess beliefs and attitudes surrounding the disease.
The stories are written by Hong Kong writers Roy Kwong, Ryan Lau, Shiu Ka Chun, Tang Kit Ming and Yezhiwei.
The stories are written by Hong Kong writers Roy Kwong, Ryan Lau, Shiu Ka Chun, Tang Kit Ming and Yezhiwei.
11 JUNE 2015
Protest and Freedom
Edmund Price gives the first public reading of his award-winning short story “Lennonism” (deemed Most Creative in the 2014 SCMP–RTHK story competition), a look at the SAR through the lens of a disaffected young policeman on the barricades at the Occupy protests as narrated by the ghost of John Lennon. He also presents “Wanderlust”, flash fiction about the impact that meeting the daughter of a wealthy Hong Kong property developer has on a young European man. Giving historical perspective to the issues surrounding the ongoing democracy debate in Hong Kong, Price presents excerpts from Christopher Isherwood’s 1939 classic on the rise of Nazism Goodbye to Berlin to illustrate how easily a free society can be ended from within.
Price, a former investment banker from the UK who has lived in Hong Kong since 1996, recently completed his MFA at City University.
Price, a former investment banker from the UK who has lived in Hong Kong since 1996, recently completed his MFA at City University.
Henry W. Leung presents a new work in progress tentatively titled City Without Solitude, reflecting on his research into the literatures and protests in Hong Kong. He looks at imperial prejudice, confinement and the nature of imagination.
Leung is completing a Fulbright Fellowship studying the literatures of Hong Kong. He has received Kundiman and Soros Fellowships. Leung earned his BA at Stanford University while also studying abroad at Peking, Cambridge and Oxford universities, and earned his MFA at the University of Michigan. He has spoken and guest-lectured at Hong Kong University, Baptist University and City University.
Leung is completing a Fulbright Fellowship studying the literatures of Hong Kong. He has received Kundiman and Soros Fellowships. Leung earned his BA at Stanford University while also studying abroad at Peking, Cambridge and Oxford universities, and earned his MFA at the University of Michigan. He has spoken and guest-lectured at Hong Kong University, Baptist University and City University.
19 MARCH 2015
The Asian Male and PLUG Magazine Uncovered
Photographer Norm Yip witnesses the rise of Asian men as objects of art and his role in pushing them to the forefront, and PLUG Magazine managing editors Timothy Loo and Lap Capistrano explore print publishing with an LGBT twist.
Yip’s photography of men across Asia brings a fresh viewpoint that has raised international interest in Asian male models. In Yip’s latest collection, titled The Asian Male – 3.AM, the photography takes on a progressive approach, revealing full nudes and men in bondage. Yip's sensitive eye for light and shadow, combined with his love for the classical form and inspiration by Herb Ritts and others, has culminated in a superb collection.
Loo and Capistrano discuss the ins and outs of PLUG Magazine. The quarterly is a community and culture periodical committed to giving positive exposure and coverage to the LGBTIQ community in Hong Kong. The duo discusses the team behind the pages and shares why the group of friends who started the business ventured into print publishing and touch on the benefits and struggles of launching a magazine. Loo and Capistrano will also lay out some of the goals for the year and how contributors can get involved.
Loo and Capistrano discuss the ins and outs of PLUG Magazine. The quarterly is a community and culture periodical committed to giving positive exposure and coverage to the LGBTIQ community in Hong Kong. The duo discusses the team behind the pages and shares why the group of friends who started the business ventured into print publishing and touch on the benefits and struggles of launching a magazine. Loo and Capistrano will also lay out some of the goals for the year and how contributors can get involved.
10 DECEMBER 2014
Older Gay Men, Lesbian Romance & Independent Publishing
Sociologist Travis Kong presents in words and pictures the lives of 12 gay men aged sixty and above living through times of tumult and change in his new book: Oral History of Older Gay Men in Hong Kong (Step Forward Multimedia Co Ltd., 2014). The book is published in Chinese as 《男男正傳：香港年長男同志口述史》. The talk is in English. Kong is Associate Professor in Sociology at The University of Hong Kong where he leads research in homosexuality, commercial sex and intimate cultures in Hong Kong and mainland China.
Author Harper Bliss reads from her new work, At the Water’s Edge (Ladylit Publishing, 2014). She co-founded Ladylit Publishing, an independent press focusing on lesbian fiction.
Finally, Publisher Caroline Manchoulas discusses her experience setting up the company with Harper Bliss. Ladylit Publishing, based in Hong Kong, is dedicated to quality lesbian romance and erotic fiction. Ladylit currently publishes about 80 titles, ranging from short stories to full-length novels and anthologies, from authors such as Harper Bliss, Cheyenne Blue and Laila Blake.
Author Harper Bliss reads from her new work, At the Water’s Edge (Ladylit Publishing, 2014). She co-founded Ladylit Publishing, an independent press focusing on lesbian fiction.
Finally, Publisher Caroline Manchoulas discusses her experience setting up the company with Harper Bliss. Ladylit Publishing, based in Hong Kong, is dedicated to quality lesbian romance and erotic fiction. Ladylit currently publishes about 80 titles, ranging from short stories to full-length novels and anthologies, from authors such as Harper Bliss, Cheyenne Blue and Laila Blake.
25 SEPTEMBER 2014
Food, Drink, Sex and Love Around the World
Authors Tony Zhiyang Lin and David Clive Price explore life and love through nonfiction and fiction at the next Tongzhi Literary Group meeting.
Lin recounts his real-life adventures from China to Germany on a winding path of discovery in his first book, All the Bars on This Planet. Wading through discussions on politics and social norms, Lin finds not only food and drink, but that sex, love, hatred and hope are common themes across cultures and the touchstone of communication.
In Alphabet City, Price conjures the story of a man whose marriage disintegrates in a welter of suspicion and accusation. Peter begins to discover a homosexual identity of which he was previously unaware. He tries to escape his past and recreate his identity by fleeing to New York. There he is drawn into the bleak sub-culture of lower Manhattan and at the same time into a devouring relationship with an actor named Joe. The two of them leave on a daredevil trip, running drugs through the Southwest – a trip which takes on the mysterious contours of pursuit and self-destruction.
Lin recounts his real-life adventures from China to Germany on a winding path of discovery in his first book, All the Bars on This Planet. Wading through discussions on politics and social norms, Lin finds not only food and drink, but that sex, love, hatred and hope are common themes across cultures and the touchstone of communication.
In Alphabet City, Price conjures the story of a man whose marriage disintegrates in a welter of suspicion and accusation. Peter begins to discover a homosexual identity of which he was previously unaware. He tries to escape his past and recreate his identity by fleeing to New York. There he is drawn into the bleak sub-culture of lower Manhattan and at the same time into a devouring relationship with an actor named Joe. The two of them leave on a daredevil trip, running drugs through the Southwest – a trip which takes on the mysterious contours of pursuit and self-destruction.
3 JULY 2014
Impact of Prominent Deaths in Gay Community
Author Nigel Collett remembers Leslie Cheung’s life cut short by the entertainer’s 2003 suicide in Firelight of a Different Colour: The Life and Times of Leslie Cheung Kwok-wing. At the time of his death, Cheung was the greatest star of his generation in the city. Despite the fact that he was openly gay, he was and is adored, by multitudes in societies where his sexual orientation remains a little-discussed taboo. Firelight of a Different Colour commemorates a life that continues to amaze and inspire.
Ken Bridgewater explores the mystery surrounding Police Inspector John MacLennan’s 1980 death in Open Verdict: A Hong Kong Story. MacLennan was found dead in his locked Hong Kong flat. A suicide note was found with the body. But there were also five bullet wounds in his chest – seemingly too many to be self-inflicted. Based on actual events, Open Verdict offers a fictionalized account of MacLennan’s. In this real-life mystery, Bridgewater seeks to reveal the facts of this mysterious case.
American film producer Curtis Chin talks about his 2009 documentary Vincent Who?, which explores the 1982 Detroit murder of 27-year-old Vincent Chin and focuses attention on what many consider the beginning of the Asian American civil rights movement.
Ken Bridgewater explores the mystery surrounding Police Inspector John MacLennan’s 1980 death in Open Verdict: A Hong Kong Story. MacLennan was found dead in his locked Hong Kong flat. A suicide note was found with the body. But there were also five bullet wounds in his chest – seemingly too many to be self-inflicted. Based on actual events, Open Verdict offers a fictionalized account of MacLennan’s. In this real-life mystery, Bridgewater seeks to reveal the facts of this mysterious case.
American film producer Curtis Chin talks about his 2009 documentary Vincent Who?, which explores the 1982 Detroit murder of 27-year-old Vincent Chin and focuses attention on what many consider the beginning of the Asian American civil rights movement.
5 DECEMBER 2013
Marshall Moore and Nigel Collett Present
Marshall Moore reads from his new book Bitter Orange and Nigel Collett discusses his work in progress E.M. Forster and India.
About Bitter Orange: Seth Harrington can be invisible or undetectable, but he is not a superhero. The ability only works in morally grey situations; the rest of the time, he can’t turn it on and off at will. He can use a movie ticket stub to buy a coffee. He can stop muggings in plain sight, unseen. But this only adds to his confusion about his place in the world. Still reeling from the horrors of the September 11 terrorist attacks and ambivalent about his future, Seth is at a crossroads: can he be one of the good guys by doing bad things, or are his newfound powers part of someone else’s malevolent agenda?
E.M. Forster and India is an account of the English novelist’s relationship with the country during the British Raj. Forster’s most well-known work is A Passage to India. Behind the novel lies Forster’s love affair, both with the culture and with its young men. Collett’s work explores Forster’s emotional and sexual awakening on the subcontinent. E.M. Forster and India is planned for publication in 2015.
About Bitter Orange: Seth Harrington can be invisible or undetectable, but he is not a superhero. The ability only works in morally grey situations; the rest of the time, he can’t turn it on and off at will. He can use a movie ticket stub to buy a coffee. He can stop muggings in plain sight, unseen. But this only adds to his confusion about his place in the world. Still reeling from the horrors of the September 11 terrorist attacks and ambivalent about his future, Seth is at a crossroads: can he be one of the good guys by doing bad things, or are his newfound powers part of someone else’s malevolent agenda?
E.M. Forster and India is an account of the English novelist’s relationship with the country during the British Raj. Forster’s most well-known work is A Passage to India. Behind the novel lies Forster’s love affair, both with the culture and with its young men. Collett’s work explores Forster’s emotional and sexual awakening on the subcontinent. E.M. Forster and India is planned for publication in 2015.
19 SEPTEMBER 2013
To Russia with Love
Brian Yeung reads from his blog on life in and around the Russian city of Sochi – home of the 2014 Winter Olympics.
In “From Asia to Russia: Mysterious Journey”, Brian explores living in a city where – at least at the beginning – he didn’t speak the language and knew nothing about the country. Through his online musings, Brian uncovers the secrets of the Black Sea city and reveals himself, too.
For more, read Yeung’s blog “From Asia to Russia” appearing in Russia Beyond the Headlines.
In “From Asia to Russia: Mysterious Journey”, Brian explores living in a city where – at least at the beginning – he didn’t speak the language and knew nothing about the country. Through his online musings, Brian uncovers the secrets of the Black Sea city and reveals himself, too.
For more, read Yeung’s blog “From Asia to Russia” appearing in Russia Beyond the Headlines.
14 MARCH 2013
Shanghai Lesbians Discussed
Lucetta Yip Lo Kam reads from her new book Shanghai Lalas: Female Tongzhi Communities and Politics in Urban China.
This is the first ethnographic study of lala (lesbian, bisexual and transgender) communities and politics in China, focusing on the city of Shanghai. Based on in-depth interviews, Shanghai Lalas concentrates on the women’s everyday struggle to reconcile same-sex desire and compulsory marriage, within a culture denying women’s active and legitimate sexual agency – the ability to act in a way that accomplishes their goals.
Arthur Tam of Time Out Hong Kong magazine also reads from his work for the print and online publication.
Finally, TLG member Mark Deamer reads from a title of his own selection.
This is the first ethnographic study of lala (lesbian, bisexual and transgender) communities and politics in China, focusing on the city of Shanghai. Based on in-depth interviews, Shanghai Lalas concentrates on the women’s everyday struggle to reconcile same-sex desire and compulsory marriage, within a culture denying women’s active and legitimate sexual agency – the ability to act in a way that accomplishes their goals.
Arthur Tam of Time Out Hong Kong magazine also reads from his work for the print and online publication.
Finally, TLG member Mark Deamer reads from a title of his own selection.
13 SEPTEMBER 2012
Ansh Das, JiaJia and Jane Lam Present Latest Works
Always Forever by Ansh Das is a memoir that opens on the sidelines of the glamorous Mr. Gay World event, flies high on the wings of love, crawls through the depths of death and rises again with a hope for the future.
Cross Tracks by JiaJia – the pen name of Henry Lam – is the story of two close friends who, after following their own paths in life, get a second chance to reunite when their tracks intersect again years later.
Jane Lam reads an extract Lam has translated from a compilation of letters written by lesbian and bisexual women in Hong Kong to their parents, and vice versa. The reading comes from a letter from a mother to her homosexual daughter. It details the mother's humorous and loving self-guided exploration of some aspects of her daughter's life as a lesbian, and the mother's opinions and feelings regarding having a gay daughter. The text also portrays her concealment of the daughter's sexuality from the rest of the family, thus mimicking the daughter's dual identities within and outside the family. The mother's at times angst-ridden journey into the expanse of the LGBTIQ world takes place squarely within the confines of the domestic sphere. Within this setting, the mundane duties of the home take on great significance and further aids her comprehension of her daughter's sexuality. The letter culminates in an apology to her daughter for the pain caused by her own incomprehension and an invitation to further the mother's understanding of being a member of the LGBTIQ community.
Cross Tracks by JiaJia – the pen name of Henry Lam – is the story of two close friends who, after following their own paths in life, get a second chance to reunite when their tracks intersect again years later.
Jane Lam reads an extract Lam has translated from a compilation of letters written by lesbian and bisexual women in Hong Kong to their parents, and vice versa. The reading comes from a letter from a mother to her homosexual daughter. It details the mother's humorous and loving self-guided exploration of some aspects of her daughter's life as a lesbian, and the mother's opinions and feelings regarding having a gay daughter. The text also portrays her concealment of the daughter's sexuality from the rest of the family, thus mimicking the daughter's dual identities within and outside the family. The mother's at times angst-ridden journey into the expanse of the LGBTIQ world takes place squarely within the confines of the domestic sphere. Within this setting, the mundane duties of the home take on great significance and further aids her comprehension of her daughter's sexuality. The letter culminates in an apology to her daughter for the pain caused by her own incomprehension and an invitation to further the mother's understanding of being a member of the LGBTIQ community.
31 MARCH 2012
Lesbian Loves and Cities of Sameness Presented
Lee Harlem Robinson in Come and Go is used to getting all the girls, until she arrives in Hong Kong. Faced with a severe shortage of dateable lesbians, it takes Lee months to find romance and surrender to her first summer of love in 100% humidity. Much against Lee’s will, her affair with posh banker Stella doesn’t last into autumn and she’s left scouring happy hour with her perpetually single gay friends again. Come and Go is a blend of chick lit, romance and lesbian drama set against the backdrop of this other city that never sleeps.
Nicholas YB Wong is the author of Cities of Sameness. He is the recipient of a Global Fellowship Award at the Arizona State University Desert Nights, Rising Stars Writer’s Conference in 2012 and a winner of Hawai’i Review’s Ian Macmillan Writing Contest (Poetry), also in 2012. Wong edits the poetry section for Mead: Magazine of Literature and Libations, and is assistant poetry editor at Drunken Boat. He has recently been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
Nicholas YB Wong is the author of Cities of Sameness. He is the recipient of a Global Fellowship Award at the Arizona State University Desert Nights, Rising Stars Writer’s Conference in 2012 and a winner of Hawai’i Review’s Ian Macmillan Writing Contest (Poetry), also in 2012. Wong edits the poetry section for Mead: Magazine of Literature and Libations, and is assistant poetry editor at Drunken Boat. He has recently been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
EARLIER EVENTS
The following authors have read at earlier talks
Readers are listed alphabetically. Multiple listings for a single author indicate different sessions.
B
Aileen Bridgewater from her memoirs on the Police Inspector John McLennan case, in English
C
Eleanor Cheung and Lucetta Kam from their book Lunar Desires: Her First Same-Sex Love in Her Own Words
Chi Heng Foundation members from their accounts of coming out in China, in Chinese
Chou Wah-shan from his Tongzhi: Politics of Same-Sex Eroticism in Chinese Societies, in English
Nigel Collett from his work in progress on Leslie Cheung, in English
Nigel Collett from Austin Coates’s book Myself a Mandarin, in English
Tim Cribb on the role of the editor, in English
D
Ansh Das from his novel The Memory of a Face, in English
Don Davies from Alan Hollinghurst’s new novel The Stranger’s Child (2011), in English
E
Geoffrey Charles Emerson from his history of the World War II Stanley civilian prisoner of war camp, Hong Kong Internment 1942–1945 (2008), in English
G
James Gannaban from “The Hyperactive Gay Boy” blog and his work in Dim Sum magazine, in English
H
Reggie Ho from Samshasha’s Thirty Questions about Homosexuality (1989), in Chinese
Reggie Ho from his published articles on food and fashion, in English
I
Jam Ismail from her poems, in English
J
JiaJia (Henry Lam) from his novel Running Shoes, Running Track, in Chinese
K
Lucetta Kam and Eleanor Cheung from their book Lunar Desires: Her First Same-Sex Love in Her Own Words (2001)
L
Arthur Leong from his poems, in English
Brian Leung from his book Straightly Gay, in Chinese
Pak Li and his actors from the play Rope of Love, in Chinese
M
Anthony Man Ho-fung from his works, in Chinese
Rob McBride and his actors from the play Katoey, in English
Marshall Moore from his novel An Ideal for Living, in English
Marshall Moore from his collection The Infernal Republic, in English
Peter Moss from his autobiography No Babylon, in English
Peter Moss introducing Austin Coates from his book Distant Archipelagos, in English
N
Jason Y. Ng from his book Hong Kong State of Mind (2015), in English
John Nguyet Erni from his work on the “W” case, in English
P
John Potter from Decadence Mandchoue: The China Memoirs of Sir Edmund Trelawny Blackhouse (2011), in various languages
David Clive Price from his novel Chinese Walls (2014), in English
R
Lee Harlem Robinson from her blog “Trying to Throw My Arms Around the World”, in English
Edward Russell from his published article on LGBTs in China, in English
S
Susan Scarlata from her poetry collection It Might Turn Out We Are Real, in English
Gregg Schroeder from his novel-in-progress, in English
Roddy Shaw from the book Visible Truth, in Chinese
W
Connie, Wai Wai and Lik Lik of Women Coalition of HKSAR from their collection of lesbian lives, in Chinese
Sam Winter from Queer Asia’s Queer Bangkok, in English
Jason Wordie from F. D. Ommanney’s The River Bank, in English
X
Xu Xi from her novels and essays, in English
Xu Xi from her collection of stories Access: Thirteen Tales, in English
Y
Brian Yeung from two short stories on a single theme, one in English, one in Chinese
Yezhiwei (Ip Chi-wai / Bryan Yip) from his first novel Suddenly Single, in Chinese
Aileen Bridgewater from her memoirs on the Police Inspector John McLennan case, in English
C
Eleanor Cheung and Lucetta Kam from their book Lunar Desires: Her First Same-Sex Love in Her Own Words
Chi Heng Foundation members from their accounts of coming out in China, in Chinese
Chou Wah-shan from his Tongzhi: Politics of Same-Sex Eroticism in Chinese Societies, in English
Nigel Collett from his work in progress on Leslie Cheung, in English
Nigel Collett from Austin Coates’s book Myself a Mandarin, in English
Tim Cribb on the role of the editor, in English
D
Ansh Das from his novel The Memory of a Face, in English
Don Davies from Alan Hollinghurst’s new novel The Stranger’s Child (2011), in English
E
Geoffrey Charles Emerson from his history of the World War II Stanley civilian prisoner of war camp, Hong Kong Internment 1942–1945 (2008), in English
G
James Gannaban from “The Hyperactive Gay Boy” blog and his work in Dim Sum magazine, in English
H
Reggie Ho from Samshasha’s Thirty Questions about Homosexuality (1989), in Chinese
Reggie Ho from his published articles on food and fashion, in English
I
Jam Ismail from her poems, in English
J
JiaJia (Henry Lam) from his novel Running Shoes, Running Track, in Chinese
K
Lucetta Kam and Eleanor Cheung from their book Lunar Desires: Her First Same-Sex Love in Her Own Words (2001)
L
Arthur Leong from his poems, in English
Brian Leung from his book Straightly Gay, in Chinese
Pak Li and his actors from the play Rope of Love, in Chinese
M
Anthony Man Ho-fung from his works, in Chinese
Rob McBride and his actors from the play Katoey, in English
Marshall Moore from his novel An Ideal for Living, in English
Marshall Moore from his collection The Infernal Republic, in English
Peter Moss from his autobiography No Babylon, in English
Peter Moss introducing Austin Coates from his book Distant Archipelagos, in English
N
Jason Y. Ng from his book Hong Kong State of Mind (2015), in English
John Nguyet Erni from his work on the “W” case, in English
P
John Potter from Decadence Mandchoue: The China Memoirs of Sir Edmund Trelawny Blackhouse (2011), in various languages
David Clive Price from his novel Chinese Walls (2014), in English
R
Lee Harlem Robinson from her blog “Trying to Throw My Arms Around the World”, in English
Edward Russell from his published article on LGBTs in China, in English
S
Susan Scarlata from her poetry collection It Might Turn Out We Are Real, in English
Gregg Schroeder from his novel-in-progress, in English
Roddy Shaw from the book Visible Truth, in Chinese
W
Connie, Wai Wai and Lik Lik of Women Coalition of HKSAR from their collection of lesbian lives, in Chinese
Sam Winter from Queer Asia’s Queer Bangkok, in English
Jason Wordie from F. D. Ommanney’s The River Bank, in English
X
Xu Xi from her novels and essays, in English
Xu Xi from her collection of stories Access: Thirteen Tales, in English
Y
Brian Yeung from two short stories on a single theme, one in English, one in Chinese
Yezhiwei (Ip Chi-wai / Bryan Yip) from his first novel Suddenly Single, in Chinese
Not all those noted above are LGBTIQ themselves.
Their inclusion in TLG programmes indicates that their work is of tongzhi interest.
Their inclusion in TLG programmes indicates that their work is of tongzhi interest.
