Asian men loving Asian men and Asian women loving Asian women are themes as old and integral as the written word and painted image. More recently, lesbian and gay themes have been gaining momentum in Asian cinema. How do recent Asian films like Farewell My Concubine and The East Is Red imagine lesbian and gay desire? Lawrence Chua looks at the unsettled territory of sexual identity in recent films from China, Japan, the Philippines, Thailand, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Lebanon. Chua is co-producer of Radio Bandung, an award-winning news magazine, and managing editor of Bomb magazine. His writing appears in the Village Voice, the New York Times, and in Rolling Stone, The Nation, and other national journals.