A more assertive, self-reliant Cha has rulted a subtle but nstant narrowg of gay spac
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- BEG GAY CHA HAS GOTTEN HARR UNR XI JPG
- THE WORLD'S WORST PLACE TO BE GAY? IT'S CHA, ACRDG TO NEW RANKG
- CHA’S TOP 10 GAYT CI
- CHA’S LGBT COMMUNI: EXPLORG THE CHE “GAY CY”
BEG GAY CHA HAS GOTTEN HARR UNR XI JPG
A more assertive, self-reliant Cha has rulted a subtle but nstant narrowg of gay spacPhotographer: GREG BAKER/AFPHello, I’m Colum Murphy, a reporter on our Cha ernment team based Beijg, wh a look at the steady erosn of gay life Cha.
First, here are your headl: This week’s top stori:Up NextBeg Gay Cha Has Gotten Harr Unr Xi Jpg. The worst place the world for LGBT to live is Cha, acrdg to a survey that puts Beijg at the bottom of a list of most welg ci, alongsi several other Che celebrate Pri Month, German hog webse Ntpick ranked the most welg ci for people who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer. Beijg me last out of a 100 ci, while Shanghai sat at number 89 and Hong Kong at the other end, Madrid topped the list, followed by Amsterdam, Toronto, Tel Aviv and week, Shanghai Pri activists told The Daily Beast about LGBT life Cha, sayg that although gay clubs exist, few people e out as many people stggle to be accepted by fai and the state.
Homosexualy Cha was crimalized 1997, and was removed om an official list of mental illns a few years later. A 2013 survey by the Pew Rearch Center found that jt 21 percent of Cha's populatn was favor of homosexualy.
THE WORLD'S WORST PLACE TO BE GAY? IT'S CHA, ACRDG TO NEW RANKG
There are clics Cha offer still offer "nversn therapy" to most Cha do not follow monotheistic relign, unlike many untri wh low acceptance of homosexualy, many parts of society still hold nservative views on social issu.
However, a study nducted by Pekg Universy 2016 found that 58 percent of gay and straight Che people felt that LGBT people were ostracized by their fai. In the same survey, jt 15 percent of gay people said they had e out to their fai, and fewer than half said that had gone homosexualy is not illegal, the state do some ways rtrict LGBT visibily.
CHA’S TOP 10 GAYT CI
Cha's strict censorship laws extend to film—as well as polil censhorship, cuttg scen that portray the ernment an unflatterg light, the thori have removed scen pictg homosexualy, for stance, Michael Fassbenr's gay alien kiss was cut out of the movie Alien: Covenant, acrdg to The Hollywood Reporter.
CHA’S LGBT COMMUNI: EXPLORG THE CHE “GAY CY”
"Stephen", one of the two lns rabow lors to show support for the LGBT (lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr) muny, is newly displayed at HSBC's ma branch Hong Kong, Cha December 7, 2016.