Gay rights activist Qiu Bai wants mistry of tn to remove textbooks that scribe homosexualy as mental disorr
Contents:
- SHOCK CHA, SHANGHAI UNIVERSY LLS FOR GAY STUNTS 'LIST'
- AUTHORI CHA'S SHANDONG PROBE SUICI ATH OF OUTSTANDG GAY DANCE STUNT
- YOUNG, GAY, AND CHE: HOW A NEW GENERATN OUT
- CHE GAY ACTIVIST CHALLENG HOMOSEXUALY 'DISORR' TEXTBOOKS
- THE PLIGHT OF CHA’S GAY SCHOLARS
- BEG GAY CHA HAS GOTTEN HARR UNR XI JPG
SHOCK CHA, SHANGHAI UNIVERSY LLS FOR GAY STUNTS 'LIST'
There is alarm among young Che: the Universy of Shanghai has asked all partments to "draw up a list" of LGBTQ + stunts, providg rmatn on their "mental state". The Guardian reports , as Ansa wr. A disturbg fact that was reported on social media, the Che Weibo but also on Twter, where the screenshot of the directive was published which the universy would have asked to "vtigate and search" the stunts who are part of the Lgbtq + muny and of "fd rmatn on their psychologil ndns", their polil posn, their social ntacts and other unspecified "relevant requirements". L'Shanghai universy did not rpond to requts om the Guardian for ment but after a few hours the post disappeared om social media. The fear is that this type of rmatn n be ed to target intified stunts. Especially sce the Che thori have recently targeted groups of femists and, general, there is a climate of tolerance towards sexual mori the untry. In the past, the LGBTQ + muny was very active on Che universy mp, but recent years has been creasgly margalized, Ansa always remembers. Last year, the closure of Shanghai Pri, the only major maniftatn of gay pri, was announced.Especially sce the Che thori have recently targeted groups of femists and, general, there is a climate of tolerance towards sexual mori the untry. In the past, the LGBTQ + muny was very active on Che universy mp, but recent years has been creasgly margalized, Ansa always remembers. Last year, the closure of Shanghai Pri, the only major maniftatn of gay pri, was announced.Especially sce the Che thori have recently targeted groups of femists and, general, there is a climate of tolerance towards sexual mori the untry. In the past, the LGBTQ + muny was very active on Che universy mp, but recent years has been creasgly margalized, Ansa always remembers. Last year, the closure of Shanghai Pri, the only major maniftatn of gay pri, was year, the closure of Shanghai Pri, the only major maniftatn of gay pri, was year, the closure of Shanghai Pri, the only major maniftatn of gay pri, was announced. * chinese student gay *
Calls for stunt dr to llect on LGBT stunts & for guidance unselors to "help" "non-blogilly gay stunts" "form the rrect perspectiv on love & marriage.
AUTHORI CHA'S SHANDONG PROBE SUICI ATH OF OUTSTANDG GAY DANCE STUNT
A gay high school stunt Beijg attempted suici after stunts bullied him cints that clud sexual asslts. Experts say the se showed that Che schools urgently need to troduce anti-bullyg tn and support. * chinese student gay *
“But my gus is that this isn’t gog to be about homophobic persecutn as much as about the system’s nstant need to intify and monor – pecially potential activists, ” he said.
Last year, the closure of Shanghai Pri, the only major maniftatn of gay pri, was announced. Last year, the closure of Shanghai Pri, the only major maniftatn of gay pri, was year, the closure of Shanghai Pri, the only major maniftatn of gay pri, was year, the closure of Shanghai Pri, the only major maniftatn of gay pri, was announced.
YOUNG, GAY, AND CHE: HOW A NEW GENERATN OUT
At his new universy, the thor found an outwardly welg environment for LGBT people. But a muny that uld accept him all his plexy — gay, Che, ternatnal stunt — proved more elive. * chinese student gay *
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. And while much of the reactn was posive, wh people sendg their ngratulatns, Li’s acunt was also undated wh a wave of homophobic abe.
CHE GAY ACTIVIST CHALLENG HOMOSEXUALY 'DISORR' TEXTBOOKS
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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. Cha crimalized homosexualy 1997 and removed om s official list of mental disorrs 2001. 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. ‘Deal wh ’, school Cha tells gay high school stunt bullied and sexually asslted for monthsA gay teenager was subjected to months of emotnal and physil bullyg, cludg repeated stanc of sexual asslt, at a school the most severe cint Xiaohao (not his real name) was stripped naked, pned to the ground and forced to watch pornography while someone stimulated his genals while beg the asslt he relled one attacker askg, “Shouldn’t this give you pleasure sce you are gay?
THE PLIGHT OF CHA’S GAY SCHOLARS
A gay Che stunt activist on Monday lodged a su agast the Mistry of Edutn over school textbooks scribg homosexualy as a mental disorr, the latt step by Cha's small but growg gay rights movement. * chinese student gay *
“I am a homosexual. The lack of pennt aid workers schools, and few if any urs for stunts about anti-bullyg and genr and sexual diversy, has created a vacuum that abetted homophobic stunts and left people like Xiaohao to fall through the cracks, acrdg to experts terviewed by the nonprof group Rabow Anti-Genr-Based-Vlence Center has got touch wh Xiaohao and is providg help to him.
Photo: Rabow Anti-Genr-Based-Vlence CenterZhu Bao, a Beijg-based attorney who has reprented gay clients Cha sce 2013, said a stctural change at school would help addrs school bullyg more than llg the police. May 17 is the Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia. A poster by the library entrance proclaimed “zero tolerance toward racism, sexism, ableism, ageism, homophobia, and transphobia” and my enrollment form offered an “X (diverse)” optn for listg my genr.
It also asked if I intified as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, tersex, or Takatāpui — a term ed by LGBT members of New Zealand’s Maori populatn. Many Che parents worried the class would implant “gay thoughts” their children’s mds, reflectg both their anti-LGBT prejudice and a misunrstandg of how sexualy tn works New Zealand.
BEG GAY CHA HAS GOTTEN HARR UNR XI JPG
But I uldn’t help but see the bter irony of the suatn: As a universy teacher Cha, I ma the cisn to e out, largely as a way to support LGBT stunts their fight to get homophobic textbooks relled.
When I tell them I study the workplace experienc of gay teachers at Che universi, their reactns tend to vary. Some prume I am studyg homosexualy om the outsi and warn me to protect myself agast the “negative fluence” of homosexualy — the implitn beg my rearch uld turn me rpons e om a place of ignorance, cursy, or even py.
“What are the of homosexualy?