Llie Chng, one of the first celebri to e out as gay Asia, is still spirg people today.
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LLIE CHNG: ASIA'S GAY IN LIV ON 15 YEARS AFTER HIS ATH
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Durg this year’s Pri Month, soccer star Li Yg ma history as Cha’s first female athlete to e out publicly as gay, a ndid seri of celebratory photos posted on social media, showg her posg happily alongsi her partner. In years past, June was filled wh LGBTQ (lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer) events major ci such as Shanghai and Beijg, durg which Cha’s sexual mori uld semi-openly celebrate their inty. Some LGBTQ people have blamed the crackdown on the rrect imprsn that homosexualy is a Wtern import to Cha, and groups supportg gay rights are liable to filtratn by foreign forc.
Some also spect a more direct lk between the crackdown on LGBTQ rights and top officials’ worldviews, which for many were shaped durg the Cultural Revolutn the 1960s and ’70s, when thori attempted to purge any “non-socialist” elements — cludg homosexualy — om Che society. While some attacked her after her surgery, much of the public receptn was some ways offers more regnn to transgenr people than to gay people, said Bao Hongwei, a scholar of Che queer culture at the Universy of Nottgham, England.
Image ptn, Llie Chng was one of the most popular male sgers and actors of the mid-1980sFor the past 15 years fans of tormented superstar Llie Chng, one of the first celebri to e out as gay Asia, have gathered at Hong Kong's Mandar Oriental Hotel to mourn the day he took his own life.
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At that time, homosexualy was still viewed by many as an illns and abnormaly Hong Kong, pecially after the emergence of the first lol se of Aids 1984.
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"The LGBT movement Hong Kong took off the 1990s, when the muny fally beme visible to the public, " Travis Kong, an associate profsor of soclogy rearchg gay culture at The Universy of Hong Kong, told BBC Che. Chng did not proclaim his sexualy as such, but nfsed his love for a source, Rock RerdsImage ptn, Chng wore his inic pair of red high heels a 1997 ncert"In the 1990s, at tim a gay man was still lled 'Aids man' and 'pervert', " says Mr Kong.