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The Schwules Museum Berlin recently opened the exhibition “Young Birds from Strange Mountains.” It features exciting and unusual works by queer artists from Southeast Asia and its diaspora, particularly from Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Cambodia.
The title, roughly translated as “Young Birds from Strange Mountains,” is taken from a poem by the closeted gay Vietnamese poet Ngô Xuân Diệu (1916–1985), who was a correspondent member of the Academy of Arts during the time of the GDR. Some of his poems were censored because they depicted same-sex intimacy, which was not compatible with the social norms of a communist society at the time. “Young Birds” can be interpreted as …
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Image above: Wax Follies, female impersonator group from Penang, 1982, found photo collection of Hoo Fan Chon.
