Yu is also the press secretary for production company Dimension Films - not to be confused with the American company of the same name - that is in the middle of making a feature-length gay romance for online broadcast later this year. Like Yu, most funu hold the protagonists to very high aesthetic standards. The 30-something-year-old from Hangzhou, in China’s eastern Zhejiang province, is a self-confessed funu, a word in Chinese that literally means “rotten woman” but is used to refer to women who have a penchant for stories about romance between gay men. “The two guys must be handsome,” she says.
Yu Lisha loves gay films, but she has very specific requirements.