I'm Sure Sandra Oh's Familiar With The Chinese For; "We Love You."

Given the nation's shared history, the somewhat flexible border between them.

https://news.sky.com/story/olivier-awards-jodie-comer-and-paul-mescal-win-acting-trophies-as-my-neighbour-totoro-sweeps-the-board-12848657

The sequence where the high fashion sociopath, Jobu Tupaki, is forcing Evelyn to look at her through Evelyn's fingers. That's a reference to a very specific sequence in; "The Handmaiden." (2018).

In which Nam Sook-hee performs oral sex on Izumi Hideko. A sequence shot from the perspective of Izumi Hideko's vagina.

It is the moment you realise. The production has taken the admirable decision;

 "Oh well, we're already in trouble. So we may as well get in all the trouble!"

All the overt, shocking gayness in Everything Everywhere All At Once stands in its own right. It's obviously important for the gay Chinese-American director Daniel Kwan.

Also the Californian city of San Francisco is considered America's gay capital. While also long having a huge first-generation Chinese immigrant population. Which certainly makes for an interesting juxtaposition.

Even if the current reparations debate is too stale a bait for anyone to swallow.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_riot_of_1877

However the gayness is also a jumping off point for all those universal tensions between generations.