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SHANGHAI GAY PRI
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Gay: 同志 (tongzhi) the most monly ed of the many Che terms for the “G” LGBTQ+. For ntext throughout the remar of this article, jt know that Luc 390 is the cy’s most popular gay nightclub, and Roxie is the cy’s most popular (read: only) lbian bar/club. The “Gayborhood”.
Though this is changg more and more recent years, there’s a several block strip Changng district around Panyu Lu and Fahuazhen Lu that has a reputatn as Shanghai’s “gayborhood” thanks to s beg the lotn of almost all the cy’s major LGBTQ+ bars and clubs. Newer spots have cropped up elsewhere the cy recent years, and lbian bar Roxie is a pletely different neighborhood north Jg’an, but the few blocks rema the epicenter of Shanghai gay nightlife.
Luc 390 will have a performance or two peppered throughout the night nearly every weekend, while other gay bars like Hunt, Roxie and newer SAOxHAUS, along wh recurrg queer parti like Msa, also regularly showse performers.
[THE LIST]: GAY BARS IN SHANGHAI
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The are signifintly more expensive than a night out at the gay bars and n n you as much as 300–400rmb, but n be worth the ocsnal splurge for the productn valu and the variety show experience, where you n drk several hours of fierce performanc wh different genr of drag rather than a sttered lip sync here and there at the club.
Many of the gay bars, cludg HUNT and Luc, are safe, welg spac for newbie queens and kgs to show up drag for parti and special events, which may eventually lead to an ocsnal gig lip-syncg or hostg an event. Grdr, which is back unr Amerin ownership after s brief stt wh a Beijg-based pany that lnched 1, 000 thk piec about data privacy, is available, along wh all the other major Wtern gay apps om Jack’d and Scff to Hor and Growlr.
The most popular Che gay datg app by a large marg is Blued, which has 24 ln ers Cha as of 2020.
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Rice Bar – Rice Bar has been around for over 10 years and is one of the few gay bars Shanghai that’s appropriate for a zy one-on-one drk rather than a long sweaty night on the dance floor.
Il Vo – Directly across the street om Kartel, Il Vo is a iendlier, zier and much gayer versn of that famoly sloppy we bar. Rik – For the sporty gays, the send venue om the people behd Roxie is a perfectly mpy neon-l roller rk bar. There are many more rourc based Shanghai for gay, lbian, bi, trans and queer dividuals, but bee the tablishments often exist a grey area, listg them all out uld do more harm than good.
ShanghaiPRIDE anised a “Rabow Bike Ri” to mark the IDAHOBIT (Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia) on May 17 as a prelu to the ftival. Members of Cha’s LGBTQ muny and their parents spent four days on a cise trip anised by Parents and Friends of Lbians and Gays (PFLAG) 2017.
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Homosexualy was crimalised maland Cha 1997 and was removed om the untry’s classifitn of mental disorrs (CCMD-3) 2001.
Gay rights advot say they are stunned and sadned by the news, which me not long after this year’s Shanghai Pri, succsfully held offle mid-June spe challeng posed by the Covid-19 panmic. Homosexualy is not illegal Cha and, 2001, the thori removed om an official list of mental disorrs.
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.