Cui Zi'en

Cui Zi'en is a prominent Chinese filmmaker, scholar, and activist. As a professor at the Beijing Film Academy, he made history in the 1990s by becoming the first public intellectual in mainland China to openly come out as gay. His work spans avant-gar ...

Fan Popo

>Fan Popo is a leading queer filmmaker, writer, and activist of the younger generation in China. He is best known for his documentaries that focus on the intersection of LGBTQ+ identity and family dynamics, such ...

Ah Qiang (Hu Zhijun)

Ah Qiang (Hu Zhijun) is a prominent Chinese activist and the co-founder of PFLAG China (Parents, Friends, and Families of Lesbians and Gays). Since 2008, he has dedicated himself to building a bridge between LGBTQ+ individuals and their families, transforming "coming out" from a personal crisis ...

Geng Le (Ma Baoli)

Geng Le (born Ma Baoli) is the founder of Blued, one of the world's largest LGBTQ+ social networking apps. A former police officer, he lived a double life for years running Danlan.org, a non-profit website for gay men, before coming out and dedicating himself to the tech industry ...

Ellen Joyce Loo

Ellen Joyce Loo was a highly influential Hong Kong-Canadian singer-songwriter and the guitarist of the folk-pop duo at17. A virtuoso on the guitar, she was celebrated for her poetic lyrics and avant-garde musical style. In 2017, she bravely came out during the Golden Melody Awards, thanking her wife in her acceptance speech ...

Anthony Wong Yiu-ming

Anthony Wong is a legendary Hong Kong singer, producer, and the lead vocalist of the electronic pop duo Tat Ming Pair. For decades, his music has blended avant-garde aesthetics with sharp social commentary. In 2012, during his concert series, he made a historic public announcement by coming out as gay, stating, "I am a homosexual. I am a g-a-y ...