ShanghaiPRIDE

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Experience renowned boutique hotel services at Andaz Xintiandi, Shanghai
The first of Hyatt’s Andaz brand to be launched in Asia, Andaz Shanghai offers a new concept in hospitality by its marvelous hotel services. The Andaz name –‘personal style’ in Urdu, is driven by a philosophy that celebrates, respects and caters to guest’s personal style and preferences in an atmosphere that fully embraces its locale.
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• Attendance by actress Cheng Peipei
• New voices in Chinese queer cinema

The inaugural ShanghaiPRIDE Film Festival (ShPFF) successfully launched its Opening Night at The Pearl, one of the city’s most historical theaters, featuring the first public screening of Lilting (Hong Khaou, 2014) in China. The events of the day were attended by an immensely diverse crowd. In the audience were also representatives of the Festival’s sponsors (Zank, everman, and yuejunyou.com) and the British Consulate-General Shanghai, which supported the Opening Night.

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爱予未来Love is Our Future

This year’s ShanghaiPRIDE Art & Photo Exhibition promises to be bigger and better than ever, with six featured artists presenting creations inspired by their experiences in Shanghai and the Pride7 theme, “Love is Our Future.” MORE…    

Hotel at a glance
Strikingly timeless style in Old Shanghai. Located at the gateway to the “Champs Elysees of the East,” unwind in tranquil sophistication and enjoy exploring the crossroads of where old meets new.
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Join us as we celebrate the launch of Pride7 week at this spectacular opening party.
Performances will feature the five elements: earth, wind, water, fire, and love.

DJ line-up: Cell-man, Theo-man.

This is not a party, this is PRIDE.

Date: Saturday 13-June
Time: 21:00-late
Venue: The Pearl – 471 Zhapu Road (near Wujin Road)

Entry: 100RMB include one standard drink.
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Welcome to the Grand Kempinski Hotel Shanghai, situated in the heart of Shanghai’s financial district Lujiazui. Offering stunning views of the city’s glittering skyline, the hotel is perfectly located for both leisure and business visitors.
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Yuejunyou.com is a new type of gay app, it combines tourism and social in one. With the app, you can find gay friendly venues around the country; you can instantly find matching friends. Their personal information, personality, hobbies, even their free time are displayed. You can even publish activities to attract more friends to join with you. If you are travelling, yuejunyou.com’s “local friends” tab can help you solve all your travelling concerns, maybe there will be surprises during the journey too.
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THURSDAY JUNE 11TH
9PM-10PM Short Film Screening
10PM -2AM After-party

Music from Magnus Jorem & Kenanjun

LOCATION: FACTORY 54
ADDRESS: 5/F 195 Guangfu Lu, near Wuzhen Lu

FREE ENTRY, DOOR OPENS AT 8:30PM

CINEMQ returns on Thursday, June 11th to Shanghai’s trendiest art club, Factory 54, for our 6th screening and party.
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everman is affiliated with Weiman (Beijing) Trading Limited. It is the first E-business platform in China for male service whose business focuses on professional and all-around service and pitches in pink economy. The concept of the name everman originated from Forever Love for Man. everman indicates the permanent love for man. everman’s products cover customized sex toys, body care and health care items. everman’s final target is to set up an excellent life style. The newest release is the oil for gay men and male pasties.
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Only launched in 2012, blued has already become the world’s most popular FREE gay social app, attracting over 15 million users worldwide. By taking as its motto “Changing LGBTQ people’s life with science and technology”, blued actively participates in HIV/AIDS prevention and awareness work alongside anti-discrimination, and has successfully engage in dozens of public welfare programs with many international organizations including WHO, UNAIDS, UNDP and many government authorities.

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Shanghai, June 1, 2015 – With less than two weeks to go, the city is counting down the days until its biggest LGBTQ event of the year, the seventh annual ShanghaiPRIDE festival, to take place June 12-21. Pride7 will bring to Shanghai a slew of cultural, social, and educational events aimed at creating awareness and promoting tolerance and acceptance, under the theme “Love Is Our Future” (爱予未来 ai yu weilai).MORE…    

ShanghaiPRIDE presents Pride7 Open Mic Night (formerly Pre-Pride Storytelling), an evening of performances by and for the LGBTQ community. All forms of expression are welcome – storytelling, poetry, music, and performance. Tell us about your coming out, your awkward moments, your lost loves and your amazing queer experiences. Anyone is welcome to share.

Date: Thursday 11-June
Time: 20:00
Venue: Lucca Cafe & Lounge – 390 Panyu Road (near Fahuazhen Road)

Free entry.

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China’s longest-running reoccurring LGBTQ event ShanghaiPRIDE will kick off on the Saturday morning of June 13^th, 2015. For the third consecutive year, the week-long festival will be opened by a 6km city run passing through Shanghai’s various iconic sights, after which the crowd will be invited to celebrate diversity with a lunchtime BBQ at The Langham, Shanghai, Xintiandi, relaxing 5th level terrace lounge, XTD elevated. The venue’s encompassing view on the city’s popular Xintiandi district will be accompanied by a number of colorful performances.

As allocation for runners is limited, participants are required to register online in advance. All runners will receive a goody bag by everman – the best lube, an official American Apparel Pride T-shirt, as well as free entry to the ensuing BBQ. Non-running peers joining their friends are welcome at the BBQ.

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ShanghaiPRIDE Film Festival (ShPFF) runs 14-21 June, with screenings throughout the week that explore LGBTQ themes and showcase innovative voices in queer cinema. Audiences can also look forward to seeing the 23 films submitted for this year’s inaugural short film competition on the subject of LGBTQ Chinese stories, as well as finding out the winners of the five prize categories.
Free entry.
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This June, the ShanghaiPRIDE Theatre Festival (ShPTF) is ready to roll out an outstanding collection of theatre pieces for ShanghaiPRIDE that aims to broaden the art’s representation of LGBT lives and challenge, explore, and embrace its LGBT characters. MORE…    

The panel discussion explores, from a professional perspective, the various possibilities and real-life challenges that Chinese same-sex couples face in constructing families and raising children. The panel discussion will invite to stage two same-sex couples who have and plan to raise children, two parents from PFLAG China, and two sociologists and medical experts. The couples will share their experience of parenting in same-sex families, as well as how to achieve family happiness. The parents will contribute their insights and feelings towards their homosexual children building families. The experts will seek to analyze from sociological and medical perspectives the various obstacles Chinese same-sex couples face in starting families and their solutions.

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The stage turns ‘gay’ because of you, and ‘not gay’ because of you.
No matter what your colour is, show us your ‘gay wisdom’.

This summer, FLYIMPROV and ShanghaiPRIDE will bring you a big colour collision: an improvised play “Colours”. No matter what your colour is, show us your ‘gay wisdom’, participate in this dynamic play-creation, and use colourful elements and diverse perspectives to ignite the artistic sparks.

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