Cha gay rights – The Diplomat

Contents:

• CHE GAY FOM JT A CLICK AWAY
• BEG GAY CHA HAS GOTTEN HARR UNR XI JPG
• CHA’S TOP 10 GAYT CI
• CHA GAY RIGHTS
• CHA’S LGBT COMMUNI: EXPLORG THE CHE “GAY CY”

CHE GAY FOM JT A CLICK AWAY

In the early 2000s, Cha’s most famo gay liftyle, health and datg blog was beg n by a police officer. “At the begng, I jt wanted to do somethg for myself and my gay iends, ” Ma tells TIME his Beijg office, ftooned by rabow flags and featurg meetg rooms named after gay lumari like Osr Wil. ” The succs of Blued unrsr the stris that the LBGTQ+ muny has taken a natn where homosexualy was illegal until 1997 and classified as a mental illns until 2001.

While Ma was the police force, the mon perceptn was that beg gay was “perverted, a mental illns, ” he says— was somethg to be “treated” by vasive therapi like electric shocks.

BEG GAY CHA HAS GOTTEN HARR UNR XI JPG

N., and the lg Che Communist Party has no official doctral opposn to homosexualy, but the untry remas a heteronormative society that strs cis-genred, nuclear-fay valu. In 2017, Cha’s legislature, the Natnal People’s Congrs, allowed same-sex “legal guardianship, ” so that homosexual upl uld make important cisns for each other regardg medil re, property rights, and so on. Even somethg as harmls as the Freddie Mercury bpic, Bohemian Rhapsody, aired Cha wh gay scen excised.

He pots out that the shrkg of Cha’s populatn uld be alleviated if gay and lbian upl were allowed to have children through surrogacy. Havg sons would also allow gay people to plate nservative fai, who would be willg to accept their liftyl as long as they uld still provi an heir. In 2019, events to memorate the Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia were banned some ci and universi.

In January, meanwhile, an official study by the Shanghai Center for Disease Control claimed that some men had “turned gay” bee of factors like an abily to meet women’s high material requirements for marriage.

CHA’S TOP 10 GAYT CI

“I want to send a msage to the gay muny that when you are young, you might feel lost and nfed sometim, ” says Ma. 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. 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. Learn moreA gay uple kiss unr a rabow-loured srf durg a party after a mass weddg anised by the Parents and Friends of Lbians and Gays (PFLAG) Cha anisatn on a cise the open seas en route to Sasebo, Japan, on June 15, 2017.

CHA GAY RIGHTS

Today, the globally popular gay datg app Grdr and the all-clive datg app Tr have a massive number of ers Cha. The founr of the app, Mǎ Bǎolì 马保力, a gay man himself, prevly worked as a policeman when he first started the gay social workg webse (淡蓝网 dàn lán wǎng, a name lerally meang “light blue”) 2000, which later beme the foundatn for Blued.

“Most of the profil I saw on Fda looked young, well-ted, who love postg photos and selfi of travels and workout, ” Tāo 涛, a 31-year-old gay man who recently immigrated to Canada, told The Cha Project. The Protol article also lks LESDO’s termatn to the challeng faced by lbian datg apps Cha, where queer women — pared to gay men — are ls terted fdg hookups on sex-oriented apps and more terted seekg mted relatnships and nnectns, a need that n be fulfilled outsi lbian-only platforms, such as LGBTQ groups on social media se Douban.

CHA’S LGBT COMMUNI: EXPLORG THE CHE “GAY CY”

John Wei, a media studi scholar the Universy of Otago New Zealand, remarked his book Queer Che Cultur and Mobili that Feizan tend to create an onle gay muny based on mon “terts” rather than erotic ntent that was rampant on other gay s the same perd. Unlike mercial-ee Feizan, the mobile app ZANK received vtment om venture pal and quickly beme one of the top gay apps Cha. ZANK also produced gay mi-seri: the most popular was a s lled A Gut Hoe Praise (一屋赞客 yīwūzànkè), which tells the story of a group of gay people livg the same apartment.

Homosexualy is legal the untry, but LGBTQ people have no accs to many legal rights such as marriage and discrimatn protectn. LGBTQIA+ travellers are those who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr (a more clive LGBT ialism), pl queer or qutng, tersex or asexual dividuals, as well as those who intify beyond the monly ed sexualy and genr exprsns. Although there are many stanc of gay relatnships and queer art and lerature spread throughout Cha’s long rerd history, LGBTQIA+ intifyg people Cha do not receive the same legal protectns or rights than heterosexual and/or cis-genr populatns.

The ernment heavily censors portrayals of same-sex relatnships and, up until 2001, homosexualy was nsired a mental illns. Through the dynasti, homosexual relatnships were treated wh difference, but wh global and Soviet fluenc to the 20th century, laws were put place to ban same-sex relatnships.