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When Liu Hsing-Yu asked his parents to swap wedding outfits and be photographed among a sea of plastic roses, he didn’t realize he’d be embarking on a 17-year-long (and counting) body of work.
In 2009, he was studying for his art degree and had recently come out to them as a gay man — both of which they struggled to understand. In fact, as he recalled from his home in Taiwan, they initially thought that the former had caused the latter. At the time, Taiwan was still a decade away from legalizing same-sex marriage.
