Tu'er Shen (兔儿神 or simply, Tu Shen, 兔神; The Leveret Spir) is a Che Shenist or relig Daoist y who manag the love and sex between male homosexuals. The patron god of gay men, his name is more often lloquially translated as the Rabb God or Rabb Dey. His adherents refer to...
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- HOW A RABB GOD BEME AN IN FOR TAIWAN’S GAY MUNY
- CHA’S RABB GAY GOD
- HOW THE RABB BEME AN EMBLEM FOR BOTH GAY MEN AND CHE NATNALISTS
- IN ‘KISS OF THE RABB GOD,’ CHA’S PATRON SAT OF GAY LOVERS TAK CENTER STAGE
- CHA’S RABB GAY GOD
- TAIWAN'S GAYS PRAY FOR SOUL MAT AT 'RABB' TEMPLE
HOW A RABB GOD BEME AN IN FOR TAIWAN’S GAY MUNY
* gay rabbit god china *
Homosexualy was legalized 1997 and listed as a mental illns 2001, and a recent survey found 67% of Che support same-sex marriage, pared to 61% of Amerins. In 390 CE, Theodosi the Great outlawed blood sacrific, wchcraft, and fortune-tellg by birds, and ma “passive” homosexual sex punishable by public burng.
But Cha would not explicly ban gay sex for another 1, 400 years — wh the fall of s last goln age and the rise, Fujian Provce no ls, of a rabb-worshippg relig sect. It’s a llectn of stori volvg headls men, Che vampir (僵尸 jiāngshī), gobls, ghosts, mons, revenge, betrayal, and homosexualy. Yuan’s scriptn was not homophobic, though may seem that way given that he grouped the story wh tal of ghosts and mons.
CHA’S RABB GAY GOD
” Ined, several of the stori Zibuyu feature homosexualy, but was the story of the Rabb God that, years before, ught the attentn of a certa Qg official who changed the urse of Che history. For one thg, gay men Cha are sometim referred to as tùzǐ 兔子, or “rabbs. “Kiss of the Rabb God” follows Matt, a Che-Amerin rtrant worker, and Shen, the Che y of gay love.
In the afterlife, the kg of the unrworld ordas Hu to manage love and sex between homosexual people. The world’s only shre for homosexuals was found by Lu Wei-Mg 2006. Taiwan Gay Pri Para Taiwan is one of the first Asian natns to legalize same-sex marriage.
As people’s perceptns towards genr and sexualy ntue to velop, Lu’s temple will also ntue to wele gay people. 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.
HOW THE RABB BEME AN EMBLEM FOR BOTH GAY MEN AND CHE NATNALISTS
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).
But Taiwan, there is memory of another rabb god, Tu Shen, one who is matchmaker for homosexual men. He was seen as the homosexual unterpart of the heterosexual matchmaker god of Che mythology.
Sce the lol slang for gay men Imperial Cha was ‘rabb’, he me to be known as the rabb god. Through such stcturg, homosexual love is often ratnalised mastream heterosexual circl.
IN ‘KISS OF THE RABB GOD,’ CHA’S PATRON SAT OF GAY LOVERS TAK CENTER STAGE
Che scriptns of male homosexualy eclipse scriptns of female homosexualy.
Ined, the rabb templ of the gay god were actively stroyed until they were rurrected recent tim as LGBTQ+ movements flourished Taiwan, Sgapore, Cha, as well as Korea and Japan.
But Taiwan, there is memory of another rabb god, Tu Shen, one who is matchmaker for homosexual upon a time, a young soldier was ught lookg at an imperial officer through a peephole the bathroom.
CHA’S RABB GAY GOD
Although at that time, they did not have specific programs for gay upl, five upl did ed turn up. Officials of the Has empathized wh his unrequed love and appoted him as the y overseeg homosexual relatnships. As rabbs are symbols of Che homoeroticism, he beme known as the Rabb God, 兔儿神.
The emergence of the Gay Rabb God Temple should be unrstood agast two related trends Taiwan. Wh regards to social attus on homosexual issu, Taiwan is one of the most progrsive societi Asia and the Che world.
In fact, the 2003 Taiwan Pri was the first gay pri para any Che majory society.
TAIWAN'S GAYS PRAY FOR SOUL MAT AT 'RABB' TEMPLE
In the 2005 Taiwan Pri, the Taipei Mayor Ma Yg-Jeou, 馬英九, participated the openg ceremony and even clared that "beg gay is a natural state that nnot be reprsed". The Rabb God is th the unterpart of Yue Lao and charged of homosexual relatnships. In many untri, relig nmnatn and crimal persecutn of the homosexuals is very mon.
In a landspe of bigotry and ignorance, the Rabb God aris as one who not only do not nmn the gay dividuals but assists their search for love. Mao 卯 is a homophone of mao 毛 (fur), as well as the fourth of the twelve ‘earthly branch’ 地支 the Che lendril system, rrpondg to the directn east and the animal rabb. (Intertgly, the same associatn between rabbs and homosexuals existed ancient Rome.