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Why Taiwan's 'Rabb' Temple Is Almost Exclively Gay

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TAIWAN'S GAYS PRAY FOR SOUL MAT AT 'RABB' TEMPLE

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Flam leap up quick bursts, an apparent sign that the Rabb God has received his adherent’s temple is a hoe of Taoist worship wh a twist - almost all of s ngregants are gay. The shre, down a narrow alleyway a btlg district of New Taipei Cy, is dited to a y who has watched over homosexuals for four centuri. “In Che history, ‘rabb’ was a rogatory term for homosexuals, ” said Lu Wei-mg, who found the temple 2006, at a time gays were exclud om most relig, who has taken a vow of celibacy and cled to answer qutns about his sexualy, said he wanted to create a welg environment for a flock that had long been ostracized.

HOW A RABB GOD BEME AN IN FOR TAIWAN’S GAY MUNY

“This was a group wh no one to look after them, and I wanted to fill that void, ” said the 28-year-old prit, addg that Wei-mg is the world’s only shre for homosexuals.

TAIWAN'S WEI-MG 'RABB' TEMPLE DRAWS GAY COMMUNY

”Liberal attus have led to the flourishg of gay culture on the island natn, wh Taiwan’s parliament batg a bill that would make Asia’s first to legalize same-sex said mastream Taoist society remas stuck a nservative mdset, although the most vol opposn to Wei-mg temple has e om members of Taiwan’s small yet active Christian scribed stanc of Christian activists prottg ont of the temple, cludg one pastor who attempted to perform an exorcism before the altar of the Rabb God. As well as beg one of the 12 animals of the lunar lendar, “rabb” has often been a rogatory or slang term for homosexual people throughout Che history, but through cultural storytellg and efforts like those of Lu to elevate Tu’er Shen, has bee a signifint symbol for the queer muny Taiwan and Cha. Other explanatns clu the shared ialisms of the py tu zi (rabb) and tong zhi (lerally “like-md people” but a mon name for the gay muny).

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Now s 16th year, Weimg Temple New Taipei Cy ntu to provi good luck love and marriage to Taiwan’s gay muny.

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