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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. 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.

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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. ‘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. “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.

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

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

GAY M/M CHA - (MOVI & DRAMAS)

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.

Anthony Shen, a 24-year-old gay man Beijg and an avid viewer of boys’ love dramas, said that boys’ love dramas, as subtle as their homoerotic unrton may be, uld lead to wir public acceptance of the LGBTQ muny. The dramas also offer gay people Cha “vir mental satisfactn, ” he said, by seeg their sexualy reprented a reprsive om LGBT Rights Advocy Cha said that while he wished gay actors would be given the opportuny to portray same-sex love on screen, was nohels tertg to see straight men tryg to act gay.

”NEWSLETTER: Get the day’s top headl om Tim Edor Davan Maharaj >>For more than three s, Dongdan Park, one e east of Tiananmen Square, has attracted gay men om across Cha. Some seek a long-term love tert, some a one-time sex partner, others crimalized homosexualy 1997 and removed om s official list of mental illns four years later. Though same-sex marriage has not been legalized, Che media regularly report on high-profile gay home weddgs and gay upl gettg marriage certifit the Uned for many gay Che, is still difficult to buck social prsure to fd a spoe of the oppose sex and have children.

GAY EMPERORS CHE HISTORY

Confucian iology mak no allowanc for homosexualy, and there are no legal protectns agast discrimatn. He admisters ee HIV/AIDS tts, hands out ndoms and livers what he lls one-on-one “homosexual 101” ssns.

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Topics clu cheatg heartbreakers, gay inty and how AIDS is and his five-person volunteer group have mimal ntact wh their ernment sponsors. Che media equently portray HIV/AIDS as a “gay disease, ” even though natnal statistics show heterosexual sex was the route of transmissn 66% of new s reported the first 10 months of 2014. “The CDC r about meetg their quotas of HIV posiv and gettg their fundg, but we see homosexuals wh feelgs, ” Peng said.

Zeng Yi, a profsor Confucianism at Tongji Universy, lled homosexualy “a crime agast humany” an say for the Shanghai-based news webse the Paper after the U. “Superstars don’t want to lose their heterosexual fans, and those polics need a ‘normal’ fay to survive and get promoted, ” said soclogist Li Yhe, a longtime advote for gay rights timat there are 39 ln to 52 ln gay men among Cha’s 1. Wh same-sex marriage unregnized, adoptn by gay upl prohibed and surrogacy banned, a majory of this group, she says, would marry women (cludg some lbians, who face a siar stigma).

Some eventually bee regulars, returng to seek a sense of the meantime, a few Che gay-rights activists persist phg for greater social regnn, and even marriage rights. “Cha needs to have reprentativ for the homosexual muny the Natnal People’s Congrs to brg up proposals of gay marriage for the revisn of the law, ” said knows he’s unlikely to bear wns to such a velopment. Yet, havg weathered the twists and turns of a Che gay man’s life for more than half a century, he remas optimistic.