A Brighter Summer Day
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Dates2019 - Ongoing
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A Brighter Summer Day tells intimate stories from the LGBTQIA+ community in Taiwan in the period leading to the legalization of same sex marriage and the aftermath.
In 2017, the Taiwanese government declared that it was unconstitutional to exclude same sex couples from marriage, giving Taiwan two years to vote for the bill and tearing the country apart.
On the 17th of May 2019, same sex marriage was legalized in Taiwan, but it is just a beginning as the LGBTQIA+ community still suffers various stigmas and doesn’t have the same rights as straight or cisgender people, regarding adoption or marrying a foreign person just to name a couple.
The existence of gender diverse people in Taiwan is difficult, and often hidden. Gender binaries are strongly enforced in the Taiwanese culture, and people who exist outside of this binary system are rejected or made invisible. Even within the queer scene, the stereotypical representations of masculinity and femininity are prevalent.
A Brighter Summer Day aims to break the stereotypical representations of the community by celebrating its diversity.
