Blue Boy is a teenager who grows up under the repression of his strict father, a resentful ex-soldier. As Blue Boy was 8, his mother leaves the family. She is in love with a young performer in his blazer and dance. Blue Boy’s only relief is that she previously hated him and he only felt fear for her.
There is only one personality in Blue Boy’s life who loves his character: his brother. Together they read Kungfu novels, play fighting, and go to sleep in a bed. But brother gets tuberculosis and passed away in the arms of Blue Boy. Soon after being trapped at Blue Boy “depraved acts with the laboratory administrator” and barred.
His father could not accept the disgrace and put him out of the home. 18-year-old Boy Blue asleep through the first night on a bench in the New Park and enters as the “sovereignty” of the Taipei’s ‘boys of tumbler, gay prostitutes who gather around the lotus pool in the playground.
While the person who reads, entirely unknown world of gay prostitutes in Taipei is dragged, he also has a piercing image of the town and the troubles of the nation. But the most distressing in the novel is possibly Pai Hsien-yung present the wish for liberty, companionship and gratitude of these lonesome outsiders and relocated people.
Boys of Glass commence after the book in 1983 shortly publicized as first gay-erotic novel of Asia. It has a significant character for gay actions in equally Taiwan and China. In 1986 the movie and in 2003 the Taiwanese community broadcaster even a TV series.
The Blue Boy
