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Best LGBT Movies from Western and East Asia Countries

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The movie is called “The Wedding Banquet” released in 1993, China. The movie is showing an inner conflict of the main character, who has to marry with a woman for his family (traditional), while he is having a man partner in his social life (modernity).

This movie shows a clear cultural difference between Western country and Asian country in 1993. This could be the best movie in my website to effectively show the difference between Western countries and Asian countries’ attitudes toward LGBT. Especially when the main character’s parent came on the scenes, the perspective, the idea, of homosexuals changed in 180 degrees. This movie is a romantic comedy that you can both learning and enjoying the different perspectives of LGBT.

 

 

This movie is called “Bu I’m a Cheerleader”, released in 1999, America. It is about a girl who has everything until she falls in love with the other girl. Her parents bring her to “rehabilitation” centers when they find the signs of their daughter may like girls. However, rehabilitation centers do not work in the end, because she falls in love with a girl.

This is a movie from a negative perspective of homosexuals. The reason why I choose this movie is because the main character’s sexual orientation is treated as a mental illness, which would give a real perspective of parents. Even though the main character is the girl who is lesbian, the highlight would be how her parents treat her as their child in the movie that is from America.

 

 

This movie is called “The Handmaiden”, released in 2016, South Korea. The story is about when the time Korea was under Japan’s control. It is an interesting and thrill film that many characters’ thoughts and expectations are mixed and tangled up around the main character and her lover.

Since the released date of this movie is newer compares to the other two movies, it has some erotic scenes, which is allowed at that time, brings the film more realistic and interesting. The last two movies were more related with normal lives that everyone could have, however, this movie is a psychological mystery movie that has different taste from other two. The reason I choose this movie in this website is because the works and efforts putted on this film shows that South Korea is being open about LGBT communities to its society. This is an improvement of equality in Korea, and it is also a change, where people should give back some very traditional ideas, and familiar with modern ideas.

Current Western Countries

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“You Need To Calm Down” by Taylor Swift

This is the most recent song that sing about LGBT, and become a famous song over the world. The singer, Taylor Swift, is one of the most famous singer around the world. The lyric is talking and encourage about homosexuals, and because of the song was sang by Taylor Swift, it has a strong influence to all the people and countries include countries that are not prohibit the lgbt but not welcome lgbt. For example, in Japan (since it is one of the posts in this website), the song is welcoming, and even playing in the streets.

This is an important item in this website, it is influential and it shows a lgbt positive attitude toward the world. This is different from East Asia, because music is a public media, where every nation can listing. So in East Asia like China, it won’t be released or playing in the public. So this is an interest finding in the comparison of Western countries and East Asia countries.

 

 

Calendar for Gay Pride, credit

This is a website written by Andrew Collins, and it listed the calendar of gay pride in western region. From this website, we know there are over 70 places where is going to have a festival for homosexuals in 2019 – 2020 year. In each listed festival, it has a hyperlink to bing the visitors to go more specific description about the event.

This website gives the most recent events in Western countries, and the fact that over 70 places are going to have gay pride events in this year shows the current attitudes toward LGBT in western countries. It is very different from East Asia, which will shown in “Current East Asia Countries” post that the numbers of the events are lesser than westerns.

 

 

The White House Passed a New Bill, credit

This is a news released on May 17, 2019, that presenting the bill of anti-discrimination towards LGBTQ community was passes to the White House. This is aiming to extend the protection of LGBTQ people in America who should have rights equally as others. In the news, it talked about the problems of sports, economy and moral aspects for the current situations, and this bill could improve the problems.

This news is an important news for United States as well as this website. It is a current law related movement, and by the answer of this bill, LGBTQ community has even more freedom and rights in the society. This is a good news that came with the news of Taiwan, which allowed same-sex marriages. It gives two perspectives of actual events on the different regions, but at the same time.

United States

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In 2013, 60% of the population of United States think the society should accept homosexuality (Pew Research Center, 2013). United State has lots of LGBT history, and it is a place where most of the people will study LGBT community.

 

Without a doubt, Stonewall Riots was the first event that gay people revolted against the polices in a way against to the society. This video was published in May 31, 2017 by History.com Editors. It was an important history of LGBT history in the United States because this event evoked lots of important LGBT movements in United States and around the world.

This item belongs to my archive because it showed the historical moment of LGBT community in United States, and importantly, the date of this riots was happening from June 29, 1969. At that time, Canada was slowly accepted the homosexuality in the society, which illustrated a comparison. However, it gives another comparisons between East Asia. East Asia started to be actived as an LGBT community was later than 1969, while United States started many gay rights movements after Stonewall Riots.

 

A transgender jazz musician, credit

This picture comes from an article “Billy Tipton and the Question of Gender” published in September 9, 2017 by Laura Mills. Billy Tipson was a transgender jazz pianist, who hided his identity until his death. His career was around 1950s, which at that time, the society was not as friendly to LGBT community as now. This is a story of a transgender who hided his identity in his whole life.

This is an important item in my archive because this is the first item I found that a LGBT person hided the identity in his life. His life showed the readers an another way of living as a transgender compares to other people in my posts. In East Asia and western countries, whether the society accepted the homosexuality or not, most of people in my items were revealed their identities, and influenced the society. However, Billy Tipton was not, he continued to hide the identity from others, which gives a comparison to my other posts.

 

 

The first person who executed by sodomy law, credit

This is a file of the case of the sodomitical sin. It did not show the date it published, but it  comes from OutHistory.org. This website posted the testimonies of people who knew Richard Cornish, a master forced his steward to had a sexual intercourse. This is a significant item because Richard Cornish was the first person who was executed by sodomy law in Virginia at the time 1624.

I put this case in my archive because this is the earliest event happened in LGBT history in United States, and it shows a different attitude towards homosexuality compares to Japan at that time. But it also shows the similar attitude towards homosexuality with South Korea. This event also put the LGBT community in a disadvantaged situations, which may caused LGBT people to hide their identities.

Canada

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According to Pew Research Center, 80% of the population agreed with the society should accept homosexuality in Canada. Even though this data was from the research in 2013, which was 6 years ago, Canada is still a LGBT friendly country. In fact, there was a research to ask what countries are friendly to LGBT people, and Canada becomes the first place of gay friendly countries. (Nomadic Boys, 2019)

In this post, I want to talk about the one of the first Canadian who revealed the identity in the society, a song and a magazine that influenced Canada.

Robert Ross at age 24. credit

Robert Ross, a journalist and art critic, who was the first lover of Oscar Wild. He was open with his identity, which gave a great impact to Canadian society. The picture comes from a blog that published in May 2011. It talks about Robert Ross’s life experiences after the death of Oscar Wild, as his lover, and as a homosexual. Even though most of his working areas were in Europe, his family was from Canada, and so he was considered as Canadian, and influenced the Canadian society.

The reason I pick this item is because he was definitely one of the most influential LGBT persons in Canada history, who changed the view of homosexuals. His life was harsh, he was almost arrested because of his identity, and he was bullied by his identity. His life experiences could give a contrast between monks who lived in Japan in early history, as well as other countries.

 

 

This is a song called “Any Other Way” by Jackie Shane, released in 1962. Even though the singer was an American, her song was popular, and be in the top 10 best hit songs in Toronto, Canada when she first released the song. This song became a significant song in Canada history because of the lyric and the singer. At that time, Toronto and Canada took large populations of homophobia people. But the singer and the song were very openly revealed to the listeners that she was a transgender and in a LGBT community.

It is an important item in my archive because this song influenced the society in Canada as a best hit song to spread the idea of LGBT. It diminished the antipathy towards homosexuals. This song also provided similar effect as an item “Homosexuality in Joseon Kingdom era”, which posted in Korea post. It was a clue to changed Canada to the most friendly countries over the world.

 

The first magazine that titled with word “gay”, credit

This article was published in January 26, 2010 by Emily Rose Antflick. It analyzed a magazine: “Gay Magazine”, that was published in 1964. It is a significant item because this article described the details of one of the first LGBT magazines in Canada.

It is a critical item in my archive because “Gay Magazine” was one of the first LGBT  magazine published in Canada in 1964. This told us that in 1964, the society was started to accepted homosexuals, which evident the influence of “Any Other way” song, and Robert Ross. It also gave a comparison of the acceptance of LGBT from East Asia.