Fridae

Fridae speaks to Loretta Chen, Artistic Director of Zebra Crossing, and possibly Singapore's most  outspoken lesbian, about her latest production Victor/Victoria, a musical starring famed jazz singer Laura Fygi in the title role as a woman who impersonates a man to become a female impersonator.

Fridae.com’s Hong Kong correspondent Nigel Collett meets Connie Chan Man-wai, pre-eminent local activist and Chief Director of Hong Kong Pride 2009. 

Zhou Dan, a lawyer and who helped start a hotline for LGBTs in his native Shanghai in 2003, tells Fridae’s Hong Kong correspondent Nigel Collett about becoming aware of his own sexual orientation in a time where China regarded homosexuality as an ‘illness’ or ‘disorder’ to being a leading voice for gay rights in China.

Glen Goei of Forever Fever fame is back with The Blue Mansion after an 11-year hiatus from filmmaking. He tells Fridae what inspired the quirky murder mystery film which will have its world premiere at the Pusan International Film Festival on Oct 10, and what he considers worse than death.

Karen Lee, whose autobiography is the first to be published by a gay person in Singapore, says although she's back in her home country after being away for 14 years, she's "bound to flock to another country with her partner in a few years."

Fridae catches up with Mr Singapore 2009 aka Chan Wai Teik who’s currently back in Singapore between photography assignments in Shanghai, China to talk about bodybuilding and winning the coveted title at the National Bodybuilding and Fitness Championships in May.

Leona Lo, possibly Singapore’s best known transsexual, will take to the stage from Aug 6-8 to tell her story in the controversially titled Ah Kua Show.

Singaporean artist Aiman Hakim presents his first solo exhibition For Ages 4 and Up which opens on Thursday as part of Singapore’s gay pride season.

Fridae catches up with San Francisco-based DJ Tye before he heads to Singapore’s infamous Orchard Towers to play at the “Lai Liao, Ho Liao – 4 floors of ‘Hos!” party on Aug 1.

Fridae’s Hong Kong correspondent Nigel Collett meets with one of the city’s most prominent gay activists, Kenneth Cheung Kam-hung, who became active in gay and HIV/AIDS activism after being diagnosed with AIDS just months after his A-level exams.