Taiwan’s LGBTQ-Friendly Culture Feted With ‘The Nipple Talk’

Sequoia Leisure is making the most of Taiwan’s gay-friendly tradition to launch city comedy collection “The Nipple Speak.” The present is in pre-production and is anticipated to be delivered by early 2023.

Taiwan, which is self-ruled and democratic, has a extra liberal tradition than different elements of Better China. In 2019, Taiwan legalized identical intercourse marriage and is now extra actively producing queer content material than Hong Kong or mainland China. The island is now one of many fundamental sources of BL (or ‘boys love’) collection, bromance drama exhibits which have a powerful following amongst female-skewing audiences within the area.

Sequoia payments “The Nipple Speak” as a tribute to traditional U.S. collection “Intercourse and The Metropolis” however with extra open LGBTQ components and full nudity – a rarity in Asia exterior the porn business. The producer says that it’s going to incorporate themes comparable to podcasting and influencers, that matter to younger grownup audiences. And that it’s going to the collection will deal with head on controversial intercourse and relationship points that a lot of Asian society prefers to not discuss.

The present makes use of the showrunner system imported from the U.S. and can deploy three administrators: Ray Jiang, Diana Chao and Lee I-Hui.

The package deal will comprise 10 episodes of 30-minutes every in its Taiwan-set first season. Whether it is profitable, a second season will relocate to Thailand and a 3rd be set in Japan.

The corporate disclosed little of the story or its episodic construction however unveiled the present’s key forged and characters.

Kaiser Chuang, a well-established actor who has received awards on the Taipei Movie Competition and the Golden Bell Awards with “Maverick” and “The Street House,” performs a homosexual character who likes to problem gender stereotypes and is continuously seen in feminine clothes. Szuyu Lin is forged as an editor of an avantgarde web site common among the many younger era. Bryan Chang is forged because the supervisor of a YouTube star. Lucia Lu is forged as an leisure business reporter and out of the closet lesbian.

Sequoia Leisure, which beforehand delivered the “Girls in Taipei” collection quickly to be accessible on Disney Plus, has no connection to Sequoia Capital, a mainland Chinese language finance agency with a number of investments within the tech and leisure sectors. Relatively it’s a part of the Taiwan-based Grandi Holding headed by entrepreneur Lincoln Lai.