The Laramie Project

I was watching The Laramie Project when I was writing my jounral entry on the HKLGFF. It's an HBO movie so I'd dreaded it wouldn't do justice to Matthew Shephard, the college student brutally beaten to death because he was gay. But thankfully, the film was moving and thought-provoking.

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Matthew Shepherd died in 1998. The film was made in 2002. In the film, when the theatre people and pro-gay people were sort of looking to the future, they talk about the play Angels in America and how the hate crime bill still couldn't get passed in Wyoming. I thought about Clinton who condemned the perpetrators and pushed the hate crime bill, and then I thought about George W Bush and the continuing crimes against humanity in Iraq.

Hong Kong Lesbian and Gay Film Festival

Finally recuperated from my gruelling schedule during the Hong Kong Lesbian and Gay Film Festival. I tried my best but I still regret that I couldn't fit Arisan in my schedule.


( ...festival report here... )

Which literature classic are you?

Virginia Woolf: Orlando. You are a challenge, for
outer events, the outside world, the time etc.
play no importance to you. Your focus is in
writing, in gender issues, and inside your own
head. Self-analysis and exploration of yourself
as well as the outer world hold great
importance to you.


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