Join us for the first Pride Month show and event series at CAMOC running from June 16 to July 13.

This month’s programming highlights the queer experience within the Chinese American community through art, storytelling, and conversation. Each week we invite you to join us for activations of the work, including presentations, storytelling sessions, and conversations with the artists.

Linye Jiang will share her father’s story and her own journey of queer exploration. At fourteen, Jiang accidentally discovered her father’s closeted identity when she found his account on Tianya forum, once the most popular online forum among the first generation of Chinese internet users. Using this account, her father had anonymously published a gay novel based on his experiences titled Shenzhen Stories. Jiang will reflect on queer experiences in digital spaces and online writings in early 2000s China through her father’s experience. She will also discuss her perspective as a daughter living with a closeted man and its influence on her own queer journey and artistic practices in the United States.

Together we discover, preserve, and showcase the queer experience in our community to better tell the Chinese American story, and to make space in our community for acceptance and celebration of its loved and loving LGBTQ+ members.

This special program is the result of a long-term collaboration between 6018|North and CAMOC, curated by Ji Yang and the team.

We hope to see you all there!