Queer East: Love Bound + Q&a

This November, we’re pleased to welcome back our friends from Queer East Film Festival – a nationwide touring season showcasing boundary-pushing LGBTQ+ cinema, live arts, and moving image work from East and Southeast Asia and its diaspora communities.

LGBTQ+ activist Qiuyan Chen became an unexpected celebrity due to her courageous legal battle against homophobic university textbooks in the 2010s. However, this newfound fame came at a price: she was outed by her tutor, subjected to conversion therapy by her parents, and monitored by the Chinese government. To escape these pressures, Qiuyan left for the UK, where she is committed to building a close-knit community designed to support queer East Asian people in the UK. 

Followed by an in-person Q&A with director Shanshan Chen