Edison Fan is livg his bt life as an openly gay mol and fluencer Cha – how do the sgle father, bt known for his sexy unrwear shots, do ?
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Beijg-based GS began as a listgs and liftyle magaze geared toward the gay muny before evolvg to a rpected outlet for mentary and longform journalism, dited to rerdg landmark events for the Che LGBT muny. Twelve years later, amid a tighteng media environment, is the longt-nng queer prt publitn the untry, and believed by many to be the last one standg. * gay chinese magazine *
Beijg-based GS began as a listgs and liftyle magaze geared toward the gay muny before evolvg to a rpected outlet for mentary and longform journalism, dited to rerdg landmark events for the Che LGBT muny. Many LGBT rearchers Cha believe that, today, GS — short for GaySpot (乐点 lè diǎn) — is not only the longt-survivg queer prt magaze the untry, but also the last remag, even as Cha creasgly clamps down on the visibily of an timated 70 ln queer people. GS, wh s three staff and team of eelancers, is a nonprof started 2007 as a source of event rmatn for the gay muny.
Those were the days before gay datg apps like Grdr and s Che equivalent, Blued — and even before mastream social media platforms like WeChat, which has bee dispensable to gathergs. Sex, nightlife, celebri, film, relatnship advice, photos of buff guys: the were the needs at the time of Che gays seekg the material life, Su says, and ditive of the lax media environment that preced Cha’s current regime.
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0” had a penchant for documentg legal s: Cha’s first discrimatn su brought by a transgenr person 2016 as well as a separate su the same year volvg erced stutnalizatn; the first gay nversn therapy su 2017; discrimatn trials won by a gay school teacher and an HIV-posive person 2018; and high-profile suicis dotted throughout.
Nowadays, the team only prts about two issu a year and posts a handful of articl a week on s public WeChat acunt (ID: gayspot) to a small but loyal fanbase, each fetchg page views only the low thoands.
In parison, Lifehack, another acunt that do gay male nsumer-oriented workout tutorials, sual news, and product reviews, replete wh photos of shirtls guys, celebri, and mem, draws tens of thoands of clicks per article.
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Jt the last year or so, Che social media pani scbbed gay, then lbian discsns om s platforms. And November, a proment thor of homoerotic fictn was sentenced to a staggerg 10 years jail for sellg her book, a se that shocked Cha’s fictn muny.
OUT f and articulat the ntributn of gay men and women to the culture through a provotive blend of fashn, pop culture, and journalism, spirg rears to nsir the ever-evolvg meang of gay. * gay chinese magazine *
“Che gays are such letdowns, ” he said. Why Edison Fan – Che fluencer, gay mol and LGBT advote – is so much more than jt a pretty face. Edison Fan, who tablished OMG Sportswear and U-Touch Unrwear, is livg as an openly gay mol and fluencer Cha – how do the sgle father, bt known for his sexy unrwear shots, do ?
Blued, one of the biggt gay datg apps the world, has succeed bee plays by the ever-shiftg l for L.G.B.T.Q. Cha — brgg together a mory muny whout activism. * gay chinese magazine *
What you may not know is that he's also one of Cha's most well-known openly gay fluencers, wh more than 1 ln followers on the Che social media platform, Weibo, along wh over half a ln followers on Instagram.
But wh succs and visibily has also ocsnally e cricism om fans who wish he'd e his platform as one of the few out gay entertaers Cha to be more of an activist for the LGBT muny and speak out on their behalf.