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
- FROM SOLDIER TO GAY DEY OF CHA: THE RABB GOD
- HOW THE RABB BEME AN EMBLEM FOR BOTH GAY MEN AND CHE NATNALISTS
- TAIWAN'S GAYS PRAY FOR SOUL MAT AT 'RABB' TEMPLE
HOW A RABB GOD BEME AN IN FOR TAIWAN’S GAY MUNY
Tu Er Shen (兔儿神 or simply, 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". * gay rabbit 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). “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. Taiwan Gay Pri Para Taiwan is one of the first Asian natns to legalize same-sex marriage.
FROM SOLDIER TO GAY DEY OF CHA: THE RABB GOD
As people’s perceptns towards genr and sexualy ntue to velop, Lu’s temple will also ntue to wele gay people. 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.
HOW THE RABB BEME AN EMBLEM FOR BOTH GAY MEN AND CHE NATNALISTS
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.
” 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. 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.
TAIWAN'S GAYS PRAY FOR SOUL MAT AT 'RABB' TEMPLE
(Intertgly, the same associatn between rabbs and homosexuals existed ancient Rome. [6]) Acrdg to one elaborate theory, the associatn between rabbs and homosexuals me om the fact that, as prevly mentned, rabb rrpond to mao 卯, the fourth of the twelve ‘earthly branch’. In 2006, a Daoist prit named Lu Wei-mg 卢威明 found a shre dited to the Rabb God 兔儿神, patron sat of homosexuals, Yonghe Cy, Taiwan.
Havg spent nearly a the pal as a stunt and official, and formed iendships wh male actors, he may have been subvertg domant culture by fg the popular Beijg y Lord Rabb, and the slur for homosexual, wh the cult of Hu Tianbao, which he most likely heard om his iend, Zhu Gui 朱珪 (1731–1807), an official tasked wh elimatg the cult Fujian. Drawg on historil events of the twentieth-century, It tells the story of the Rabb fay (reprentg the Communist Party of Cha and s supporters) workg hard to fend their ‘flower-plantg hoehold’ (zhong hua jia 种花家: a homophone for 中华家, the fay of the Che natn) agast attacks and opprsn om Chickens (Japan, vilified om the natn of the crane to that of the chicken), Bald Eagl (the Uned Stat) and Bears (the Soviet Unn bear has the hammer and sickle of Communism on s stomach, while the Rsia bear, featured later, has the number ‘1’ on s stomach, signifyg that is the elst son of the Soviet Unn.