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After a decade of RuPaul’s Drag Race, drag kings are finally getting their chance to shine on the small screen. King Me: Rise of a Drag King launched earlier this month, with Shanghai’s reigning monarch Ennis FW competing for the crown. With a fraction of the budget of its glitzy older sister, King Me is still a landmark event for the community, as Ennis explains in part one of our series on drag. Any male impersonator will tell you that drag king-ing is a niche art form. It’

As the Lunar New Year holiday begins, CINEMQ looks at how Chinese filmmakers are challenging the standard coming out narrative in queer cinema, and imagines a world where parents truly accept their LGBTQ children. image: The Wedding Banquet (1993) “Spring Festival is a time for family reunions. But if you are an LGBTQ person, festivities and celebrations are often laced with concentrated doses of pressure towards marriage and family duty put up by gathering family members.” A