Queer East Festival UK Screens "The Outsiders," Presenting Sexuality Under Martial Law

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The 2026 Queer East Festival UK, combining film, literature, performance, and visual arts, opened tonight in London, screening the 4K restored version of director Yu Kan-ping's 1986 film "The Outsiders" as its opening feature. The festival challenges stereotypes related to gender and sexuality, showcasing diverse Asian queer cultures.

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The 2026 Queer East Festival UK, combining film, literature, performance, and visual arts, opened tonight in London, screening the 4K restored version of director Yu Kan-ping's 1986 film "The Outsiders" as its opening feature. The festival challenges stereotypes related to gender and sexuality, showcasing diverse Asian queer cultures.

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Central News Agency (Reporter Chen Yun-yu, London, 1st) – The 2026 Queer East Festival UK, which combines film festivals, literature, performance, and visual arts, opened tonight in London. Director Yu Kan-ping's 1986 film "The Outsiders" 4K restored version was screened as the festival's opening film. Wang Yi, the festival founder and a Taiwanese, told the Central News Agency that he had long wanted to introduce this courageous, taboo-challenging, and captivating queer film, produced in Taiwan during the martial law period of the 1980s, to British audiences. However, it wasn't until he learned last year that the Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute had completed its restoration that he finally confirmed it was time to present "The Outsiders" on the big screen with film festival standards. This year marks the 40th anniversary of the film "The Outsiders." The film is adapted from writer Pai Hsien-yung's classic novel of the same name, touching on the male same-sex desires of different generations and backgrounds, and presenting the streets of Taipei and the social landscape of Taiwan in the 1980s. The screening held today at the Barbican Centre, a landmark venue in London, was fully booked, attracting nearly 300 spectators. Yu Kan-ping, now 75, conveyed through a pre-recorded video to the audience that Taiwanese society and human thought have undergone great changes in the 40 years since the film's release, but no matter how times change, "social outsiders" have always been his focus. Yu Kan-ping mentioned that homosexuals used to have to disguise and hide their true nature; under a system that went against human nature and was "unfair" to human nature, the heavy, enormous "moral" high hat often made it difficult for people to resist. At that time, "The Outsiders" was requested by the censorship agency, the Government Information Office, to delete 11 scenes, otherwise it would not be released. However, such suppression also highlighted the value of investors and oth

Queer East Festival UK Screens "The Outsiders," Presenting Sexuality Under Martial Law

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