Thanks to everyone who came to CINEMQ: CYBER at ELEVATOR last week. It was a fabulous and emotional night of cyborg sexualities and digital pleasure to wrap up our current season of queer short film screenings. It was also our farewell to two of CINEMQ's core team - Matthew and Will - who are leaving Shanghai after 4 years of helping to grow the city's queer film scene. CINEMQ is an unrefined queer collective that has been hosting film screenings and publishing articles on As

Ode To Joy's creators missed the mark on portraying real Shanghai women; women who do not depend on a man’s support, who work hard, have

When videos with homosexual content were banned from Chinese internet last June, one civic minded gay man from Shanghai decided to sue the censors. On Friday this week, he finally got his day in court. CINEMQ speaks to Fan Chunlin about what his case means for the queer community. Fan Chunlin takes a stand against Chinese state-censor SAPPRFT. Photo: LGBT Rights Advocacy China Thirty year old Fan Chunlin leads a pretty average life. The Shanghai native works for an internet c

We're three days into Year of the Dog, three days into being fed full with grandma's cooking as uncles and aunts ask us to spill the T over tea on our jobs, our salaries and why we aren't married yet. Holidays with family can be a lot of pressure, especially for queer people. As we nap in front of the TV this afternoon, watching reruns of the CCTV gala when we would rather be watching this week's episode of Rupaul, CINEMQ is wondering what it would be like to watch our favori

'Who am I, who are we?' Love Queer Cinema Week (formerly Beijing Queer Film Festival) returns this month for its 10th edition with Intersections, a program of films and discussion on the myriad identities in the LGBTQ community that extend beyond the acronym alone. As the festival heads to Guangzhou this weekend, CINEMQ reviews three of the films audiences can look forward to, celebrating diversity, self, and community, with a decidedly political edge. Rarely Normal dir. Yaoy

Queer art gives physical expression to that which is often invisible to the public, and thus dismantles the dichotomy between “inside and outside.” How does queer art affect the (in)visibility of LGBTQ people in contemporary China? How do spaces created by artists become spaces for queer people and queer collectivism? CINEMQ joined UCCA's In|Visible last weekend, a season of film screenings and discussions around the ways artists, filmmakers and community leaders bridge the g