This project first returns to the 90s to trace the beginning of the Tongzhi (LGBT) Movement. Apart from intellectuals whose names have been recorded in history and other Tongzhi members who were driving forces of the social movement, where are the other members of the Tongzhi community? What sort of lives do they lead? What are their relationships and experiences with the visible trajectory of the movement and the public space? This project attempts to dig into the domains and memories of Tongzhi culture that are relatively intimate and insert them into the landscape of written records of Tongzhi history, presenting a more complex and multivariate map of stigmatization.

In addition, this project plans to invite non-Tongzhi (heterosexual) creatives from different fields of expertise to trace and listen to Tongzhi space and history together, finally reversing the “declaration – reception/writing –audience” hierarchy of the Tongzhi narrative. This project presents an interactive workshop designed by professionals of different fields and searches for stigmatized space narratives that originate from varying perspectives, developing the possibility of collective creativity. We hope that this project will become a channel for connecting and immersing different communities, opening a collective memory of Tongzhi identity and producing more organic and multifaceted understandings. Furthermore, this project also explores ways and angles to connect with the masses at this stage of the Tongzhi movement.