“Surfing for Love” Beijing Premiere

“Surfing for Love” Beijing Premiere – July 4

Queer Comrades’ New Film “Surfing for Love”: Beijing Premiere on July 4

Time： 4 July 2014, 19pm

Place： Beijing LGBT Center

Address： Bldg B, Rm2606, XinTianDi Plaza, XiBaHe Nan Lu Jia No.1, Chaoyang District, Beijing

Travel route: (Subway) LiuFang Station of Line 13, Exit B (East)

(Bus) BRT104, 110, 116, 123, 606, ChengTie LiuFang Stop (LiuFang Subway Station)

Entrance Fee： 20 RMB/person (all proceeds go to the Beijing LGBT Center)

Event Guest: Director Xiaogang Wei will be presenting the film and engaging the audience in a talk on current LGBT life in China.

Don’t miss out!

“Surfing for Love” Synopsis

Queer Comrades, China, 2014, Running Time: 35 min

Subtitled in English and Chinese

The arrival of the internet in the 1990s opened up a new chapter for the Chinese LGBT movement.  It was the start of an era during which LGBT people really got to know each other, and brought an end to dark days of utter isolation when many queers felt they were alone in the world.  With the talk show “Surfing for Love”, Queer Comrades dives into the online dating phenomenon ruling present-day Chinese queer communities.  Featuring internet pioneers Geng Le, founder of the mobile dating app “Blued” which boasts over 3 million registered users, and Yuan Yuan, founder of a popular online group for lesbians looking for sex, the talk show takes a look at the unwritten rules of cyber loving, investigates what we are looking for on the web, and what we find…