Literature 文學
This section is arranged in alphabetical order.
Disclaimer – Not all those mentioned below are LGBT themselves. Their inclusion here only indicates that their work is of LGBT interest.
Martin Booth (1944-2004)
English novelist, poet and writer, as well as teacher.
Author of a huge output, with one homosexual central character in:
Hiroshima Joe (1985)
Victor Chau
Editor of G Magazine, contributor to Fridae.com.
Chau Wah Shan
A sociology student and teacher at Hong Kong University from 1985 to 1991. He took a PhD at York University thereafter, then undertook sociology studies in western China. His works include:
a. Gay Theology (1994), a book in Chinese about religion and diverse sexualities.
b. Hong Kong Gays Please Stand Up (1995), with Ms Mak Hoi-san and Mr Kong Kin-bong, in Chinese, an anthology of 25 gay self accounts.
c. Closet Sex History (1995), with Siu Man-chong, in Chinese. A history of the gay movement in the US, the United Kingdom and Hong Kong.
d. Tongzhi: Politics of Same-sex Eroticism in Chinese Societies (2000) in English.
Austin Coates (1922-1997)
British civil servant, writer. Son of noted English composer Eric Coates.
Wrote extensively on topics related to the Asia-Pacific region, particularly Hong Kong and Macau. He was first connected to the East through his service for the Royal Air Force intelligence in India, Burma, Malaysia and Indonesia in the Second World War. After the war, he worked for the Hong Kong government as Assistant Colonial Secretary and Magistrate in the New Territories from 1949 to 1956. As a magistrate, he gained insight on the Chinese customs and character, and he applied Chinese laws to solve many of his cases.
After Hong Kong, he was the Chinese Affairs Officer in Sarawak from 1957 to 1959; First Secretary of the British High Commission, Kuala Lumpur and Penang from 1959 to 1962. In 1962, he left the British civil service to concentrate on writing. In 1965, he settled in Hong Kong and continued travelling and writing extensively.
Author of:
The Road (1957)
City of Broken Promises (1967)
Myself a Mandarin (1968)
A Macau Narrative (1978)
Nigel Collett
Biographer and reviewer, author of articles in G Magazine (2006-7), Fridae.com and Fruit Talk (2007 on). Author of The Butcher of Amritsar (2005) and lexicographical works on Baluchi and Nepali.
Tim Cribb
Hong Kong journalist, at oine time with the South China Morning Post. Freelance development editor. At one stage Associate Editor of Asia Literary Review. Working on an anthology on ‘What it’s like to be young and gay in the world today’.
Anshuman Das
Activist, Philanthropist, Coordinator of the Pink Season, IT specialist and novelist. Author of:
The Memory of a Face (2011)
John Nguyet Erni
Academic, activist, queer theorist. Author of a series of academic books and articles
James Gannaban
Actor, singer, impresario of Mr Gay Hong Kong, columnist for Dim Sum magazine, blogger:
The Hyperactive Gay Boy http://jamesgannaban.blogspot.com/.
Reggie Ho
Journalist, at one time with the South China Morning Post, editor, activist, Chairman of the Tongzhi Community Joint Meeting, and Honorary Chairman of HORIZONS.
Ip Chi-wai (Yezhiwei)
Born and educated in Hong Kong, where he grew up on a public housing estate, an environment which gave him an understanding of the life of the lower classes in Hong Kong. He came out at the early ‘90s and started writing novels in Chinese in 2000, and published his first book Suddenly Single, a gay novel, in June 2003. He is the first contract writer of the Kubrick bookshop, which publishes his works. He has published short stories in Chinese in Dim Sum Magazine and in Fe/male Bodies, a compilation by Bookazine. He is a journalist writing in Chinese in Metro Daily, Dim-sum Magazine, Pi Magazine and 1626 Magazine (a monthly youth magazine in China). He had a story produced on Hong Kong Radio 2’s programme We Are Family in 2006. His web-site is www.yezhiwei.com.hk. His books include:
a. Suddenly Single (2003); translated into English in 2011.
b. Tales of Party Animals Vol.1 Almost Perfect (2004).
c. Tales of Party Animals Vol.2 Perhaps, Love (2005).
d. Trio (2006).
e. 10/1315 (In cooperation with Aids Concern; 2007).
f. Yezhiwei’s Dairy 1 – C’est la Vie! (2007).
g. We are Family！ (2008).
h. Be My Kelvin (2009/10).
Jam Ismael
Language-hobbyist – published in small Canadian journals – Hong Kong native – gender dissident.
Lucetta Kam
Editor and illustrator of Lunar Desires: Her First Same-Sex Love in Her Own Words (2001), a collection of 26 real life female same-sex love stories written in the first person by Chinese women from Hong Kong, Macau and overseas.
Frank Kan – journalist with Ming Pao.
Travis Kong
Queer theorist and academic. Author of Chinese male Homosexualities (2010).
Edward Lam
A native of Zhongshan, Guangdong province, Edward was born in Hong Kong. He is one of the founding members of Zuni Icosahedron. He started writing in the age of 14. In 1978, he worked for TVB as a contract scriptwriter. He has also written for local newspapers. He is the author of:
a. Edward Lam on Love in English.
b. Edward Lam on Cinema in English.
c. a/s/1 in English.
d. Four books in Chinese.
Henry Lam (Reporter A)
Novelist, made his debut from the web into writing with the published title, The Shoes and Running Tracks (2005) in Taipei about a school boy love affair. Website: http://www.hkedcity.net/library/book/index.phtml?isbn=9867568605.
Co-founder and chief script writer/program director for the web-based radio gayradio.hk., for which he worked on radio drama productions, some written by himself, and including Yezhiwei’s Suddenly Single. Hosted for a few years the radio programme Gay Novelist, which discusses local and Taiwanese writers working on various types of gay issue.
Michael Lam
He has not given out his real name and writes under the name邁克. Born in Singapore, he lives in Paris and in Hong Kong. He is published in Chinese, among others, by the Oxford University Press. His works include:
a. Me and My Electric Shadow.
b. Spellbound.
c. Sex Text.
d. Fox Tail.
e. Single-Minded, Double-Entendre.
f. You are Who I See Myself (2002).
g. Bump Into Gorgeous Things.
h. Map of Flower Thief (1996-2007).
i. Frankly, My Dear.
Brian Leung Siu-fai (DJ BLing)
Music director, radio presenter (RTHK’s We Are Family) and DJ. Author of:
This is England (1990)
Straightly Gay (2010)
Tony Lo Chun-ling
Teacher and novelist. Author of:
We Are Not on the Same Page (2011)
Eric Carrera Lowe
Born in San Francisco, but grew up mostly in the former crown colony of Hong Kong. He studied art history and photo styling at the Academy of Art College in San Francisco. After returning to Hong Kong, he was tutored under the photographer, Blues Wong. He held his first photo exhibition in the Fringe Club during the City Festival in February 1999. He started a website (with others) called New Asian Men for Asian men in their late twenties and early thirties. He is a free lance journalist and photographer and has written articles for Fridae.com, Royalty Digest (UK), Noodles Magazine (USA) and The South China Morning Post, and was at one time the social editor for HK Tattler Magazine.
He has published two photo books about European Royal families from the 19th to the 20th centuries, Royalty in Photographs and Royal Images. He is now working on his third book and planning his next photo exhibition in Hong Kong for 2008.
Anthony Man Ho-fung
Activist and writer, presenter of internet programmes on radiorepublic.com (1999-2000) and of man ho fung tongzhi on gayradio.hk (2007-now). Interviewed on TV for Cable TV’s Entertainment Channel by Christine Ng Wai-mei (1999) about his coming out story and his group ‘Over the Rainbow’, which provides hotline services to tongzhi parents and family members. Co-host with Kwok Kam-yan on Cable TV’s Entertainment Channel (2000-2001) talking about various kinds of gay issues. His work in Chinese includes:
a. Love Has Two Sides (1996).
b. Man Ho Fung Tongzhi (1999).
c. Coming Out to Family under Eastern Culture- an article for the Family Planning Association (2006).
Timothy Mo (b 1950)
Hong Kong – born novelist living in England and writing in English. Novels include:
The Monkey King (1978)
Sour Sweet (1982)
An Insular Possession (1986) – with a small hint of same-sex relationship
The Redundancy of Courage (1991) – with a gay hero
Brownout on Breadfruit Boulevard (1995)
Renegade or Halo2 (2000) – with some same-sex scenes
Marshall Moore
Academic, publisher (of Signal 8 Books) and novelist.
Author of:
The Concrete Sky (2003)
Black Shapes in a Darkened Room (2004)
The Infernal Republic (2009)
An Ideal for Living (2011)
Peter Moss
Novelist, autobiographer and journalist. Born in Allahabad, India, spending an itinerant childhood in various railway colonies, principally in Bengal. He began working at the age of 15 as an apprentice journalist and worked on the Straits Times in Malaya.. In 1965 he arrived in Hong Kong to join the Government Information Services. He pioneered many of Hong Kong’s major public service campaigns and was awarded an M.B.E for his service to Hong Kong. He has published the autobiographical trilogy: Bye-Bye Blackbird: An Anglo-Indian Memoir; Distant Archipelagos: Memories of Malaya; and No Babylon: A Hong Kong Scrapbook. He came out in these books. He has written five novels, including The Singing Tree and White Guerrilla. His latest is The Age of Elephants.
Jason Ng
Blogger – As I See It: http://jasonyng.blogspot.com/.
Author of Hong Kong State of Mind (2011).
Johannes Pong
Writer and singer. Columnist with Hong Kong Magazine.
David Price
Travel writer and novelist. Author of:
Alphabet City (1983)
Chinese Walls (2011)
Mani Rao
Poet. Born in Bombay in 1965, settled in Hong Kong in 1993. In the USA studying literature at present. Her published work includes 100 Poems 1985-2005, an anthology in six parts. The collection draws together poems from her earlier works, covering 10 years, including Echolocation, Salt, The Last Beach, Living Shadows, Catapult Season, and Wingspan.
Samshasha (a pseudonym, also known by the Chinese-character pen-name Xiaomingxiong) – real name Sam Ng.
Hong Kong’s first gay activist. Born of mainland Chinese parents in Hong Kong in the early 1950s, he was educated locally before going to the United States to receive his university education. He returned to Hong Kong in 1979 and began to publish gay liberation texts, all in Chinese. He featured as a regular columnist writing about gay issues in Hong Kong magazines, commencing in 1980 when he began contributing to the ‘minority rights’ column in City Magazine. He was a central figure in initiating and organizing many of Hong Kong’s gay-rights groups and forums, often serving as a spokesperson for Hong Kong’s Chinese gay community. He died recently. His works include:
a. A Chinese Gay’s Manifesto (1980) which was the first such booklet published in Hong Kong.
b. Pink Triangle (1981), Hong Kong’s first underground gay newsletter.
c. Twenty-five Questions about Homosexuality (1981) which was the first gay-liberation book to be published in Chinese. It was re-issued as 30 Questions about Homosexuality (1989), the first gay-liberation text to be issued by a commercial publishing house in Hong Kong.
d. The History of Homosexuality in China (1984) for which a revised and expanded version was published in 1997.
Roddy Shaw
Activist and writer on political and legal issues concerning discrimination in Hong Kong, founder of cr4sd, Civil Rights for Sexual Diversities. Joint author of:
A Visible Truth (in Chinese, c. 2005)
Stephen Vines
Journalist and TV presenter who has focussed occasionally on gay issues in Hong Kong.
Stuart Wolfendale
Journalist who has written on several same sex issues including the problems over gay issues within the Anglican Church.
Danny Wong
Hong Kong Chinese author writing in English. Author of:
Drops in Nan’s Ocean (2006)
Waltzing Matilda Memoirs (2010)
Nicholas Wong
Short story writer and poet. Contributor to the newly launched anthology Fifty-fifty, edited in 2008 by Xu Xi. His short story in this collection is: I for Illness. His poetry includes: City of Sameness, and three poems accessible on the net at:
http://www.apwn.net/index.php?/writing/more/the_evolution_of_beard/
http://www.apwn.net/index.php?/writing/more/city_of_sameness/
http://www.apwn.net/index.php?/writing/more/fingernails/
Jason Wordie
Historian and journalist, columnist in the South China Morning Post, researcher into several areas including gay issues around and after the Second World War. His works include Streets: Exploring Kowloon and, with Ko Tim Keung, Ruins of War.
Yau Ching
Academic at a local university, columnist for dailies such as am730 and magazines such as Hong Kong Film. She has made a series of films: Flow (c. 1993); Let’s Love Hong Kong (2002); Suet-sin’s Sisters’ (2000); Video letters 1-3 (1993). Her books include:
a. Two books of creative essays and fiction in Chinese.
b. The Impossible Home; bilingual poetry which won the Hong Kong Biennial Award Honourable Mention.
c. Sexual Politics in Chinese.
d. Sexing Shadows in Chinese.
e. Filming Margins: tang shu shuen in English (2004).
f. As Normal as Possible, Hong Kong University Pres ‘Queer Asia’ series (2010).
Arthur Yeung
Hong Kong poet.
