An advocy group that served as a safe space for the LGBTQ muny Beijg has been shut down as part of a ernment prsure mpaign agast gay rights groups.
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BEIJG LGBTQ+ CENTER IS CLOSED AS CHA CRACKS DOWN ON GAY ANIZATNS
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Terms like “gay” and “sexual mory” have disappeared om public view. In rponse, some groups changed their nam, removg words that like “gay” or “sexual mory” that would easily trigger the censors, though was largely effective. ”In September 2021, the ernment announced was banng portrayals of “sissy men” and “other abnormal thetics” om televisn programs and “gay love” om vio gam.
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An advocy group that served as a safe space for the LGBTQ muny Beijg has been shut down as part of a ernment prsure mpaign agast gay rights groups. The Beijg LGBT Center's shutterg Monday is a cril blow for the muny that ed to publicly advote for their rights. It's part of a wir crackdown that had started unr Cha’s lear Xi Jpg. The center often hosted public speakers, film screengs and other events. Censorship onle and prsure om the ernment has ntributed to many LGBTQ+ anizatns closg. The group LGBT Rights Advocy, which brought strategic lawsus to ph for policy change and rights, closed down 2021 after s founr was taed. * beijing lgbt *
Four months later January 2022, the ernment censored rens of the s Friends, removg scen featurg Ross's ex-wife, Carol, who is a last year, the gay datg app Grdr was removed om Apple’s app store Cha. ”Cha crimalized homosexualy 26 years ago, but the untry remas an uniendly place for LGBTQ+ people.
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In rponse, some groups changed their nam, removg words such as “gay” or “sexual mory” that would easily trigger the censors, though the tactic was largely Monday, the Beijg LGBT Center stayed operatn spe the censors and growg prsure. On May 15, four days after s 15th anniversary and two days before the Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia, the center said on s official WeChat acunt that was closg bee of “force majre, ” which Cha often refers to beg shut down by the ernment.
”Shrkg safe spacThe center’s closg as officials are tryg to crease the birth rate to addrs mographic ncerns Cha, which reported s first populatn cle s this year and is beg overtaken by India as the world’s most populo officials the Che ernment view homosexualy as “a malign foreign fluence that is stoppg youth om gettg married and havg children, ” said Dari Longaro, a senr fellow at the Pl Tsai Cha Center at Yale Law School who foc on LGBTQ rights.
Although homosexualy is legal Cha and major ci n have thrivg LGBTQ social scen, same-sex marriage and adoptn are not allowed and LGBTQ people are not legally protected agast people Cha say their safe spac have been squeezed unr Print Xi Jpg, who has overseen a crackdown on advocy groups sce g to power a ago. ”‘Homophobic social norms’Zhu and others say nservative cultural valu often keep them om sharg their inti wh others. “Although Cha is beg more open to now, ’s still difficult for sexual mori to work state anizatns as rights-bearg officials bee of tradnal homophobic social norms.