The double liv of gay men Cha's Haan provce

Contents:

• FOR CHA’S GAY MEN, DONGDAN PARK BEIJG OFFERS HAVEN
• GAY CHE MEN STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG
• FOUR YEARS, TWO NTENTS: A GAY CHE UPLE'S JOURNEY FOR A SURROGATE SON
• GAY M/M CHA - (MOVI & DRAMAS)
• GAY EMPERORS CHE HISTORY
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FOR CHA’S GAY MEN, DONGDAN PARK BEIJG OFFERS HAVEN

The stirrg scen are om the Che fantasy perd seri Word of Honor, the latt h the gay romance genre that has explod populary Cha: boys’ love. ” Subtle gay dramas, adapted om boys’ love webnovels, has bee a lucrative bs Cha, where censorship of anythg LGBTQ-related is tight. But the appete for queer ntent is jt too big to ignore, a mand that not om gay men, but mostly straight least eight shows adapted om novels wh boys’ love romanc are expected to premiere this year across Cha’s major streamg platforms, cludg Alibaba’s You, Tencent Vio, Mango TV, and iQIYI.

“This type of queer, more fantastic than real, do ltle jtice to the gay muny, ” said Zhange Ni, a profsor at Virgia Tech who studi Che webnovels.

GAY CHE MEN STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG

Only the ‘homonormative’ gay characters, men who are handsome, wealthy, wh exceptnal quali, are liked by nsumers.

”High risk, high returnsMakg and showg boys’ love dramas Cha is a t-and-moe game between the prof-driven entertament dtry and the homophobic censorship 2016, the h teen seri Addicted (also known as Hero), a drama wh explic gay scen, was pulled om onle streamg platform iQIYI before uld release s last three episos. In 2018, the sci-fi drama Guardian went offle on vio hostg se You two months after s release, even though the origal gay romance storyle was rewrten as iendship.

Prit, thor of Guardian and Word of Honor, will see at least four more of her novels adapted to as the genre thriv, homosexualy remas taboo Cha. While Word of Honor was praised for tellg a movg love story, s productn team was reful to avoid explic mentns of homosexualy durg the show’s productn pany ially agreed to talk to VICE about their boys’ love dramas but nceled the terview after learng that the qutns will touch on the homosexualy implied their works.

FOUR YEARS, TWO NTENTS: A GAY CHE UPLE'S JOURNEY FOR A SURROGATE SON

‘Socialist brotherhood’Knowg viewers jokgly ll homoerotic relatnships the dramas “socialist brotherhood, ” a reference to how on-screen homosexualy has to be disguised as bromanc le wh official state the two protagonists of You’s Word of Honor shared tense kiss the origal novel, producers of the drama adaptatn had to rort to microexprsns and symbolism to nvey the pair’s feelgs for each other. ” While explic mentns of homosexualy are banned, s lns of fans had no problem ferrg sexual tensn between the two leads, om their poetic flirtg and lgerg eye ntact, almost every episo.

For example, the two characters e their swords to cut off each other’s sleev, a 2, 000-year-old Han Dynasty reference to gay love. ”Queerbag for shFor all s appeal to homoeroticism, the boys’ love bs Cha surviv by avoidg any discsn of LGBTQ rights while focg on the physil attractivens of s male characters — a batn amics say has ntributed to the silencg of sexual mori Che society.

GAY M/M CHA - (MOVI & DRAMAS)

“By htg at male homoerotic love, the directors and actors are appropriatg the tert of funü and gay life, tryg to turn the to sh and traffic, ” said Ge Liang, a rearcher at Kg’s College London who studi boys’ love lerature Cha.

“But stead of speakg up for the LGBTQ muny, they stay le wh Cha’s official policy on gay people: keep silent and keep them sful. ”Most gay people Cha still face prevalent discrimatn hoeholds, schools, and workplac.

GAY EMPERORS CHE HISTORY

But the stggl are visible to the public eye, as state censors ban almost all reprentatn of homosexualy mass media.

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In 2018, a wrer was sentenced to more than 10 years jail for wrg and sellg a gay porn novel; months later, when the film Bohemian Rhapsody was released Cha, parts pictg Freddie Mercury’s relatnships wh men were unceremonly cut. Gay people Cha have poted out how different boys’ love stori are om their real-life experienc — the characters dramas are often picted as young, urbanized, handsome, and wealthy, and rarely e across the hostily that gay people actually face.

Photo: STR / AFPDaniel Hsu, a 31-year-old gay man workg as a teacher Beijg, said while many people enjoy watchg boys’ love dramas, they may not be terted the problems nontg gay people the real world. ”Bt we’ve got However, some members of the gay muny see boys’ love dramas as a prec platform for queer stori. Where Che state media often portrays gay men as victims of crime, enemi to tradnal valu, and sourc of social stabily, subtle boys’ love dramas have perhaps bee the bt form of queer reprentatn Cha’s state-sanctned pop culture.