The first gay pub I dared set foot now has a rabow plaque. Here’s why that matters | Gary Nunn | The Guardian

Contents:

• BEG GAY CHA HAS GOTTEN HARR UNR XI JPG
• BEG GAY IN CHA (AS A FOREIGNER 2020-21) ?️‍? WHAT’S THE TTH?
• IT’S ACTUALLY OK TO BE GAY CHA ONLE—JT DON’T ASK FOR EQUAL RIGHTS IRL
• THE WORLD'S WORST PLACE TO BE GAY? IT'S CHA, ACRDG TO NEW RANKG
• HOW NATNALISM IS MAKG LIFE HARR FOR GAY PEOPLE CHA
• THE FIRST GAY PUB I DARED SET FOOT NOW HAS A RABOW PLAQUE. HERE’S WHY THAT MATTERS
• UNRSTANDG CHE GAY MEN’S AND LBIANS’ EXPERIENC OF COPG WH THE PRSURE TO MARRY OM THE LENS OF SUZHI DISURSE

BEG GAY CHA HAS GOTTEN HARR UNR XI JPG

A more assertive, self-reliant Cha has rulted  a subtle but nstant narrowg of gay spacPhotographer: GREG BAKER/AFPHello, I’m Colum Murphy, a reporter on our Cha ernment team based Beijg, wh a look at the steady erosn of gay life Cha. I’d also read that due to expectatns of fay, many gay members of Che society kept their sexualy hidn, which ma me wonr, should me and my wife keep our ‘gayns’ somewhat quiet too?

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.

BEG GAY IN CHA (AS A FOREIGNER 2020-21) ?️‍? WHAT’S THE TTH?

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.

IT’S ACTUALLY OK TO BE GAY CHA ONLE—JT DON’T ASK FOR EQUAL RIGHTS IRL

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.

The people are not as margalized as many Wterners may thk: Gay marriage may not be legalized and gay cizens not granted some of the same rights as their heterosexual unterparts, but their muny is still thrivg regardls—and I should know, bee I’m part of is revolutnizg and centralizg this muny is the same phenomenon that has uned ostracized peopl the world over: the spe of Cha’s digal censorship laws, the extent to which LGBTQ-related topics n be talked about onle is virtually limls (all lks Che unls otherwise noted).

THE WORLD'S WORST PLACE TO BE GAY? IT'S CHA, ACRDG TO NEW RANKG

Thk piec, LGBTQ movi, erotic films and imag, and even tty mentari of niche gay culture n all be found the rapid currents of Cha’s birth of BluedOne of the earlit and most popular webs for the gay muny was—and still is—Light Blue, the precsor of the popular app Blued. Seekg more rmatn to extend his unrstandg of his newfound sexualy, Geng found a book tled Beijg Story—a love story wh genue, unmonized gay characters— the most cryptic rims of the ter.

HOW NATNALISM IS MAKG LIFE HARR FOR GAY PEOPLE CHA

Censored, but not fullyThough the Che ernment still forbids reprentatns of homosexualy on TV and has censored documentari about beg gay, they appear to be more leniant when to digal ntent. “Obvly as an openly gay man, I feel cumbent to do some stuff for the muny and people expect that om me, but wh Cha’s current suatn, there’s really not much I n do asi om sayg a few words onle” he says. ”Cha has not yet ma any legislative effort to improve the rights of s populatn’s LGBTQ muny, and don’t seem like ’ll makg any progrs anytime soon, Renowned LGBTQ rights activist Yhe Li has been askg reprentativ to subm bills to legalize gay marriage durg Cha’s annual legislative ssns every year sce the 2000, but the bills never gathered enough, for now, the Che LGBTQ muny is sadly still segregated om the real world and only gets to exist onle—but at least our muny there is growg and thrivg.

The worst place the world for LGBT to live is Cha, acrdg to a survey that puts Beijg at the bottom of a list of most welg ci, alongsi several other Che celebrate Pri Month, German hog webse Ntpick ranked the most welg ci for people who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer. Beijg me last out of a 100 ci, while Shanghai sat at number 89 and Hong Kong at the other end, Madrid topped the list, followed by Amsterdam, Toronto, Tel Aviv and week, Shanghai Pri activists told The Daily Beast about LGBT life Cha, sayg that although gay clubs exist, few people e out as many people stggle to be accepted by fai and the state.

There are clics Cha offer still offer "nversn therapy" to most Cha do not follow monotheistic relign, unlike many untri wh low acceptance of homosexualy, many parts of society still hold nservative views on social issu. In the same survey, jt 15 percent of gay people said they had e out to their fai, and fewer than half said that had gone homosexualy is not illegal, the state do some ways rtrict LGBT visibily. Cha's strict censorship laws extend to film—as well as polil censhorship, cuttg scen that portray the ernment an unflatterg light, the thori have removed scen pictg homosexualy, for stance, Michael Fassbenr's gay alien kiss was cut out of the movie Alien: Covenant, acrdg to The Hollywood Reporter.

THE FIRST GAY PUB I DARED SET FOOT NOW HAS A RABOW PLAQUE. HERE’S WHY THAT MATTERS

"Stephen", one of the two lns rabow lors to show support for the LGBT (lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr) muny, is newly displayed at HSBC's ma branch Hong Kong, Cha December 7, 2016. Asi om the ual discrepancy between ral and urban areas, there is also a large generatn gap: a 2016 survey showed that 35% of people born pre-1970 would reject a gay child, while only 9% of people born after 1990 would do the same. Che social media work Weibo also me unr fire June 2018 for banng gay ntent a measure taken prumably to show ference to the ernment, although onle outrage ed an almost-stantaneo public turnaround on the mpaign.

It n be nice knowg that the acmodatn is more tered towards gay travellers, although this is difficult to fd out given the rtrictns on public statements of gay-iendls, so remendatns om iends is the bt bet.

UNRSTANDG CHE GAY MEN’S AND LBIANS’ EXPERIENC OF COPG WH THE PRSURE TO MARRY OM THE LENS OF SUZHI DISURSE

We have put together a list of our favoure gay hook up apps to e while travelg, but you might also want to bsh up on your gay sna etiquette if you want some simple, steamy fun…. The historian Bret Hsch asserts Passns of the Cut Sleeve: The Male Homosexual Tradn Cha that all ten emperors who led over the first two centuri of the Han dynasty were “openly bisexual, ” wh Ai beg the tenth. Gil, wrg the Journal of Sex Rearch, Cha had “a long history of dynastic homosexualy” before the Revolutn of 1949, wh “urtly love among lers and subjects of the same sex beg elevated to noble virtu.

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