New documentary names top 'queers'

From Global Times

Queer Comrades has shot a new documentary profiling 10 leaders of China's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community, called Cream of the Queer Crop.

Director Wei Xiaogang said he wanted to give the activists a chance to talk about their work, exploring their wishes for the gay movement and how to lead gay people into the future.

Wei used three criteria to pick them. They had to be working in the area for a long time. They had to be willing to show their faces in front of a camera. And Wei strove to have a balanced representation for the community, trying to pick people of different gender, ages and occupations.

"In our film we have all L, G and T," he said. "No B," he said, adding that one of the people he profiles is kind of bisexual but identifies as a gay man.

"We have a lawyer, a professor, a director and an editor of a magazine," Wei said.

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