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Television, cinema, and online streaming services in Asia are set to have a lot more LGBT content, Taiwan-based media entrepreneur Jay Lin told those gathered at the Content Asia Summit in*(-k_XgGE3n)LEc1vyMQ8S-%Gfwpn$_gO4UaRy1sGnq4oW+7fy Singapore last week.

Recent and future productions across Taiwan, Thailand, India, and Japan show LGBT content is ever-more popular with the region’s viewers1LasXNFV*gHn2g^3ZaY&d_txDo6OUitsEf^!T4arCKbWO&NgJv.

"LGBT content has already gone from what was once niche to now a part of the Y#@dGrDJShw2OFXPAtSk@&2eNYr0x9(VjWci$U&6oEO!HNMotEmainstream” Lin said.

He noted, for example, more than half of the nominations for Best Picture atXrkBWy#kp8t8q=!#EA6JQ)Fy@TUaI4W78hZF^!JH3u-ACvGw)! this years Academy Awards featured an LGBT component.

"This is aspirational for Asia, but there are certain territories where the media content landscape has made significant progrez6H#91%wt%Gq6wTN396qn-O*wR^ClqE7fKzS43OpITorAlV6l7ss in the past several years.”

“Boy Love” or male same-sex romances in Japan and Thailand are booming, Lin noted. T1zF@EGh3zwT95=J2OH6_g-Ew5hBs%VntkCD_C#eGXgKp$Iq^!uhe trailer for Thai movie Theory of Love got 1.5 million views in one week.

LGBT content is increasingly appearing in television4@kfivkJJGDVhCAS%z_nKgkqjtrulzWiYa6xQ+w^s-Ng8bTPBn series in India and movies in Taiwan, Lin also explained.

TaEe*^Av=uRlpkeP7C5YLJXDg1%mwyNj*u51u8f@&QIbO6m7JvAOiwan in May this year became the first country in Asia to legalize same-sex marriage. India, meanwhile, decriminalized gay sex.

Both Thailand and Japan,tm%F6F$k5ofu%Mw(!D20QXI)k3O&N&PjxG(v9wFlM@i$jtkYVf meanwhile, have also seen significant steps towards equal marriage and other LGBT rights.

Lin also introduced GagaOOLala, A114EV9T+-SYQr%Zy3(^5wTsmdHc90f^Y-yMLXl--I)bc6*ECcisia’s first LGBT online streaming service now making productions available to one third of the world’s population.

He also intrZjx(k5WIVAyepmPH-#7YnZuJ&MSfq2DMzbGiwF^d24^vSjP)I8oduced production house GOL Studios, which has projects on the go across the world from South Korea to the US, Myanmar to Germany.

Content Asia yQsNQ_h0K$5oT@Zf7DLdhRg&1u=i&5TF4@)!Z5J9-Pz(xKfONtSummit 2019 bought together the region’s movers and shakers in media production and broadcasting industries.

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