Television, cinema, and online streaming services in Asia are set to have a lot more LGBT content, 64Bdwki!f&6jZ3v7MJIM7(ml4hRTgiXE!a8RH=G2e$jgbd1vaSTaiwan-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 content is ever-more popular with the region’vK3Xmwjckw=J!Yls+BgI_k&(ydh1GSc7DwtGxFWg%R*zx14lz&s viewers.

"LGB49dro)wPKZrY@IpT%dkz*#(cu&M@O5XQ#2PnQ0=2Y9w(elRFi5T content has already gone from what was once niche to now a part of the mainstream” Lin said.

He noted, for examplRRj%rAM52N)Sx!4*C+Ki^l34zu=a3G6ke!0GdZu2l6l4JTu_nQe, more 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 landscape has made significant progress in theTUhvSZqOuol%SHcffj-_vk*HnW(24GHqDT(oF$m67rmrD$Rq8W past several years.”

“Boy Love” or male same-sex romances i1=!zu5DB2zfk9V)$S$+GET97cH_@!(q2K3h-Y3TQBXL8j=)vu!n 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 M6g=stniOI!Mb$*ti+EiYLr^Wk%poVnd4U*=-GGqQ$8X6pYrO2increasingly appearing in television series in India and movies in Taiwan, Lin also explained.

Taiwan in o@j*W(2rcpiZxM*6$!rgOADg@N)E^O7yLbyjFBn=7V=UqqzNvyMay this year became the first country in Asia to legalize same-sex marriage. India, meanwhile, decriminalized gay sex.

Both Thailand and Japan, meanwhile, have alC!dg#t3PFCxi6Iuw1LdT#nm6bzX6vfRUp@Bd)ysTM$+m&Fa#$Iso seen significant steps towards equal marriage and other LGBT rights.

LieM9jLVpG+o_3&$vo%hr=4$bmuI3r7tAgj7aZ0R%GwQJaJUi9QHn also introduced GagaOOLala, Asia’s first LGBT 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 worldCqh-CXIEOtI7)sWtCH&^(ZGLA7)X98bBb_#&hcXS8xq!4fhUHA from South Korea to the US, Myanmar to Germany.

Content Asia Summit 2019 bought together the region’s morJDV7n@HA&Y0v4*_Tw@V)2ACA(&^4U0qMIt63GryNvC=8xehMYvers and shakers in media production and broadcasting industries.