In the twenty years since Zhang Yuan's landmark 'first Chinese gay film,' East Palace, West Palace, home grown queer cinema remains resolutely underground. Regulations which have kept LGBTQ films out of cinemas and off television now extend to the internet. The vacuum has been filled by groups organizing independent screenings around China. Among them is China Queer Film Festival Tour, established in 2008 by a group of activists and filmmakers in Beijing as a traveling cinema