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BEIJG LGBTQ+ CENTER IS CLOSED AS CHA CRACKS DOWN ON GAY ANIZATNS
The Beijg LGBT Center is a non-prof, muny-based anizatn that empowers the Beijg lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr (LGBT) muny by providg social servic and anizg advocy programs. In rponse, some groups changed their nam, removg words that like “gay” or “sexual mory” that would easily trigger the censors, though was largely Monday, the Beijg LGBT Center stayed operatn spe the censors and growg prsure. A well-known LGBTQ+ advocy group Beijg has closed s doors, sendg a shiver through Cha’s embattled movement to support and protect sexual immediately after the Beijg LGBT Center announced was haltg operatns due to “unavoidable” — and unexplaed — circumstanc, lawmakers Taiwan passed an amendment allowg same-sex upl to adopt, the latt regnn of gay two events me the lead-up to the Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia on May Cha’s LGBTQ+ muny, the nfluence unrsred jt how difficult has bee to secure regnn and rights for sexual mori, even as Taiwan, the self-erned island mocracy that Beijg claims as s own, has ma stris toward equal rights for upl of var sexual orientatns.
“While not officially closed, many s are active or stgglg to survive, ” he wrote on 15 years, the center quietly but nsistently created a space for the LGBTQ+ muny, makg a home for many isolated by the Che Communist Party’s promotn of tradnal genr rol and rtrictns on same-sex relatnships beg portrayed the public sphere, cludg on anized fun ns and other social gathergs, nducted surveys wh top universi and nnected people wh the muny to tsted unselors, doctors and bs group also mpaigned agast the persistent, albe illegal, e of nversn therapy as well as lgerg narrativ about homosexualy beg a mental illns. (Cha only stopped classifyg beg gay as a disorr 2001. Sce then Gay Spot Magaze (《点》杂志) and Cha Queer Inpennt Films (中国酷儿独立影像) also joed as sponsors.