Hong Kong filmmaker and curator Edward Lam Yik-wah was BOTD in 1959. Born in Hong Kong, he began writing scripts for television series in his teens. In 1989, he curated the first Hong Kong Gay and Lesbian FIlm Festival, and publicly adopted the term “tongzhi” as a synonym for queer identities. After a sabbatical in Europe, he founded the Edward Lam Dance Theatre in 1991, producing theatrical works that addressed discrimination against LGBTQ people and celebrated same-sex relationships. His screenplay for Stanley Kwan’s 1994 romance Red Rose White Rose won Best Adapted Screenplay at Taiwan’s Golden Horse Awards. In 2006, he staged adaptations of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature, (Water Margin, Journey to the West, Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Dream of the Red Chamber), through which he explores the construction of Chinese masculinity and sexuality. A writer of fiction and cultural criticism, his publications include A Man Who Sleeps Around, Too Many Men, Too Little Time, Edward Lam on Love and Edward Lam on Cinema. He lives and works in Hong Kong.