Soft infrastructural visibility and the rhythms of queer media in Hong Kong

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ID12342122
AuthorsXavier I C Chan (0009-0009-6509-5630, Chinese University of Hong Kong, corresponding author)
Year2026
Pages1-13
Publication date2026-04-06
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueContinuum (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1030-4312 • E-ISSN: 1469-3666
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/10304312.2026.2655861
OpenAlexW7151618432
LanguageEN
References cited33

This article examines how queer visibility in Hong Kong subsists through precarious conditions of representation. In a media landscape characterised by linguistic erasure and infrastructural fragility in present-day Hong Kong, the question of queerness’ visibility becomes urgent. Focusing on Boyscation Too a Cantonese gay men dating show produced by Vinci Wong in 2024, it investigates how queerness is wielded rhythmically in tone, pace, and conversational understatement rather than spectacle. Using close reading and interviews, as well as through online sharing of the article, it develops a concept of soft infrastructural visibility to attend to the mediated conditions that make possible queer presence within precarious linguistic and auditory infrastructures. Moreover, in between those productions, sound and circulation, Boyscation Too turns fragility into form, rendering the small acts of care that ferry it from one person to another legible as a collective sensorium. The framework reconceptualises visibility as a mediated continuum and carries debates over affect, infrastructure, and queer time into Sinophone media cultures.

Queer · Rhythm · Visibility · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · South Asian Cinema and Culture

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