His video Not Simply a Wedding Banquet, a documentary of Taiwan's first public gay wedding, was entered into numerous international film festivals, but Chen was turned down when he applied to the Government Information Office for financial support to enter the work in a film festival. The incident elicited a storm of protest from the artistic community, especially from noted author Hsiao Yeh.
例如同志電影導演陳俊志一九九八年為其錄影帶作品《不只是喜宴》參加多項國際影展，之後申請新聞局影展補助遭到拒絕一事，集結作家小野等藝文界人士抗議，成為媒體口中的「政府歧視同性戀」。