{"id":52760,"date":"2023-02-19T20:00:07","date_gmt":"2023-02-19T11:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/19\/tank-fairy-film-taiwan-drag-queer-community"},"modified":"2023-02-19T20:00:07","modified_gmt":"2023-02-19T11:00:07","slug":"jokes-dancing-drag-hit-short-film-honours-taiwans-defiant-queer-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=52760","title":{"rendered":"Jokes, dancing, drag: hit short film honours Taiwan\u2019s defiant queer scene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tank Fairy, a lighthearted musical comedy, celebrates the island\u2019s LGBTQ+ community \u2013 in contrast to China\u2019s cultural crackdown on gay life<\/p>\n<p>An award-winning Taiwanese film was shown on Saturday to two very different audiences One, at the Beijing Queer Film festival \u2013 an event cautiously held inside the French Institute \u2013 had little public promotion. The mostly young crowd was sombre and serious, even unreactive, as they watched <em>Tank Fairy<\/em>, a 10-minute musical comedy about a dancing, dragged-up, cigarette-smoking, magical figure who delivers gas tanks.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time in Sydney, <em>Tank Fairy<\/em>\u2019s director Erich Rettstadt was accepting the Asia-Pacific Queer Film Festival award, after a screening during which people laughed and cried. The event was part of the two-week WorldPride<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/2022\/nov\/26\/sydney-worldpride-the-20-balls-parties-parades-and-more-you-cant-miss-in-2023\" title=\"\"> celebrations<\/a>. \u201cThere are rainbow flags everywhere and it does feel very gay,\u201d said Rettstadt.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/19\/tank-fairy-film-taiwan-drag-queer-community\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tank Fairy, a lighthearted musical comedy, celebrates the island\u2019s LGBTQ+ community \u2013 in contrast to China\u2019s cultural crackdown on gay lifeAn award-winning Taiwanese film was shown on Saturday to two very different audiences One, at the Beijing Queer F&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3587,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[71,2229,69,2729,859,74,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-drag","category-film","category-lgbtq-rights","category-pride","category-taiwan","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3587"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52761,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52760\/revisions\/52761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}