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Contents:

• GAY CHE MEN STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG
• IN PICTUR: CHENGDU – CHA’S PERMISSIVE ‘GAY PAL’ REFG TO FOLD
• THE 5 BEST CHA GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS CHA

GAY CHE MEN STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG

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.

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.

IN PICTUR: CHENGDU – CHA’S PERMISSIVE ‘GAY PAL’ REFG TO FOLD

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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.

THE 5 BEST CHA GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS CHA

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. ”“This type of queer, more fantastic than real, do ltle jtice to the gay muny. ”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.

‘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.