Television, cinema, and online streaming services in Asia are set to have a lot more L@VPCC(ia1*5FujM5y()Q1muIn(*mGq&@KU#RrkBJW0=OCxwHO&GBT content, Taiwan-based media entrepreneur Jay Lin told those gathered at the Content Asia Summit in Singapore last week.

Recent and future productions across Taiwan, Thailand, India, and Japan show LGBT cont-D&$F(&&twW-8e^*DH*HQwX7n27IlTplVai4FTFco)vfor1)UCent is ever-more popular with the region’s viewers.

"LGBT content has already gone fromQupidHuPbwDW0HeCZe@D%TX$jVsFV9f3xgAORO-2$rLsxe6Tx) what was once niche to now a part of the mainstream” Lin said.

He noted, for example, more(#H^^IwYYSebBLT3T^1d@SpLJr&cb+FKy+e3)T&Sp&0%&NM!+Y than half of the nominations for Best Picture at this years Academy Awards featured an LGBT component.

"This is aspirational for Asia, but there are certain territories where the media content landsca#nzM_p988qnalm_#vQ7Z=wpFCKiMRt!kVjzLDa17H^h*k4bOJxpe has made significant progress in the past several years.”

“Boy LoveBjem)OZB4yKn$65t@dj7!JkVQo#1JthnMS_mqqxfE85-JwNnda” or male same-sex romances in Japan and Thailand are booming, Lin noted. The trailer for Thai movie Theory of Love got 1.5 million views in one week.

LGBT content is increasingly appearing in television series in India and movies in Taiwan, Lin also explainRWdW33O4d0cGU-Yf$(m6=j+tI*w)i+5KOG9i!KDu*2dxYg*LZKed.

Taiwan in May this year became the first country in Asia to legalize same-sex marriage. India, meaDJw(=)#ZR$OLg9MD7tzV=Y+9ZpmiyVb@hMdBP+BeylUFdmwGyxnwhile, decriminalized gay sex.

Both Thailand and Japan, meanwhile, have also seen significant(Bdxv=8Cimiy*_G$%B=J9nO*jdD6)=e(UXZJ4BlE+2QwaW%hLY steps towards equal marriage and other LGBT rights.

Lin also introduced GagaOOLala, Asia’s first LGOAsNwssUfBvf7_Kcp8Pu&Y=pv5lVVLj0yCFTw%bDNDF05=WJ2CBT online streaming service now making productions available to one third of the world’s population.

He also introduced production house GOL Studios, which has projects on the go across the woyNg$TvKy+QLSg0AS%lG^oUz*r*KQyVF^^7*XplkIB2G!+dC7l2rld from South Korea to the US, Myanmar to Germany.

Content Asia Summit 2019 bought together the region’s movers and shakers in +Hu=lHCHF*=VGunaG-VhEput$Bq%G9lMJ*J=Zv%$ZIhxwk8G5+media production and broadcasting industries.