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LLIE CHNG: ASIA'S GAY IN LIV ON 15 YEARS AFTER HIS ATH
Llie Chng, one of the first celebri to e out as gay Asia, is still spirg people today. * china gay star *
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.
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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.
Ma Baoli ed to n his gay liftyle blog secret, but today has morphed to an app wh 63 ln LGBTQ members worldwi. * china gay star *
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.