However, Jay Lin still found the film festival experience limiting regarding the availability of LGBT content for Asian audiences and decided to establish Asia's first LGBT-streaming platform, GagaOOLala.
[4] On October 28, 2016, GagaOOLala celebrated the first ever Queermosa Gala, an award ceremony "to bring broad media visibility to the people and companies working hard to have LGBT voices heard in Taiwan."
[11] During the Taipei Pride celebrations of 2018, GagaOOLala, GagaTai and LalaTai organized together with the Singaporean fashion photographer Leslie Kee the photography exhibition Out in Taiwan.
[14] In a 2019 interview, Jay Lin, CEO of GagaOOLala, revealed the story behind the name: "Lala' and 'gaga' are slang terms for lesbian and gay in Chinese.
[15] The platform currently hosts more than 1,000 LGBT titles including feature films, shorts, documentaries, and series from all over the world, but with a focus on Asian queer cinema.
[16] It is the home for the filmography of international queer directors such as Zero Chou, Simon Chung, Kit Hung, Stanley Kwan, Scud, Cui Zi'en, Loo Zihan, Yonfan, Marco Berger, Antony Hickling[17] or Joselito Altarejos, and the distributor in Asia of international hit titles like Blue is the Warmest Color, Moonlight, Front Cover or Weekend.
[21] The first season focused on four main topics in Taiwan: religion and the marriage equality movement, the drag culture, sex and disability, and surrogacy.
[24] In March 2019, GagaOOLala launched GOL STUDIOS, a crowd-sourcing platform to assist in the production and distribution of LGBT content around the world.