Cha’s LGBTQ muny has long had to al wh not only societal prejudice but also prsure om the state: censorship, surveillance and timidatn, at tim even tentn by police. Durg the early 2000s, though, looked like thgs might be changg. Gay clubs flourished big ci and muny groups sprang up to offer social servic. The days, the feelg has fad. While ’s difficult to pot to any direct crackdown, the realy is that over the past ’s bee to
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- CHA'S VERSN OF TWTER REVERS GAY CONTENT BAN AFTER BACKLASH
- BEG GAY CHA HAS GOTTEN HARR UNR XI JPG
- ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ IS HAPPENG CHA TOO. BUT IT CAN’T TURN BACK THE CLOCK.
- A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP
- BEG GAY CHA HAS GOTTEN HARR UNR XI JPG
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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. BEIJING (Rters) - Cha’s Sa Weibo on Monday reversed a cisn to remove gay ntent after outcry among gay Che who say the pany had smeared homosexualy by lumpg wh pornography as tried to meet ernment censorship directiv.
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Cha’s Twter-equivalent Weibo said on Friday would remove pornographic, vlent or gay vios and rtoons a three-month mpaign, sglg out a genre of manga animatns and ics that often pict rnchy gay male rponse, gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) advot poured onle to cricize the cisn g hashtags, open letters and even lls to dump Sa Monday, Sa said the clean-up would no longer target gay outcry reflects a fear that growg censorship tends to ban all gay ntent as “dirty, ” a setback for efforts to rve out an onle space of tolerance for homosexualy Cha’s tradnally Confucian society, LGBT advot was unclear whether Sa’s measure was a direct rult of a censorship directive om the ernment or an iative taken by the pany self. Sa did not rpond to a requt for official People’s Daily newspaper of the lg Communist Party on Sunday enuraged tolerance towards gay people, but add that “vulgar” ntent mt be removed regardls of sexual orientatn.
Che LGBT advot hope to promote gay rights by tg society about sexual preferenc and phg back agast tradnal prsur to marry and have children. ”Sa said the mpaign is to ensure that the pany is le wh onle ntent regulatns released June last year that lump homosexualy wh sexual abe and vlence as nstutg “abnormal sexual relatnships.
”The fight agast Sa’s cisn saw LGBT groups, advot and gay Che speakg out through letters and tag “I am gay” was viewed nearly 300 ln tim on Weibo before beg censored on Saturday.
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Beijg-based advocy group PFLAG Cha on Sunday lled on Sa’s shareholrs to punish the “evil” acts of the NASDAQ-listed pany by “votg wh their feet” and sellg gay Che are wrote their own stori letters to the CEO of Sa, Charl Kegui, one such wrer, me out as a lbian an open letter published on social media last year where she scrib how she had felt prsured to marryg a man to please her parents. “The ma ncern for me is that, bee Cha is very big, and plac outsi big ci are que nservative, there are lots of gay people who only learn about their sexualy onle, ” Hao told Rters. My Interts My Content Newsletters Watchlist Settgs Acunt Subscriptn Billg Help Center Sign Out Subscribe Markets Enomics Indtri Tech AI Polics Wealth Pursus Opn Bsweek Equaly Green CyLab Crypto A more assertive, self-reliant Cha has rulted a subtle but nstant narrowg of gay spacPhotographer: GREG BAKER/AFPFebary 17, 2022 at 7:28 AM ESTHello, I’m Colum Murphy, a reporter on our Cha ernment team based Beijg, wh a look at the steady erosn of gay life Cha.
Homosexualy is legal the untry, but LGBTQ people have no accs to many legal rights such as marriage and discrimatn protectn. Lnched 2012, Blued is a datg app primarily for gay ers. Fka (formerly known as Aloha) is a Tr-like datg app for gay ers.
A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP
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Gay clubs flourished big ci and muny groups sprang up to offer social servic. While ’s difficult to pot to any direct crackdown, the realy is that over the past ’s bee tougher to be gay Cha.
Homosexualy was crimalized 1997, but there are no explic legal protectns agast discrimatn based on sexual orientatn or genr inty.
On May 15, four days after s 15th anniversary and two days before the Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia, the center said on s official WeChat acunt that was closg bee of “force majre, ” which Cha often refers to beg shut down by the ernment.
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”Shrkg safe spacThe center’s closg as officials are tryg to crease the birth rate to addrs mographic ncerns Cha, which reported s first populatn cle s this year and is beg overtaken by India as the world’s most populo officials the Che ernment view homosexualy as “a malign foreign fluence that is stoppg youth om gettg married and havg children, ” said Dari Longaro, a senr fellow at the Pl Tsai Cha Center at Yale Law School who foc on LGBTQ rights. Although homosexualy is legal Cha and major ci n have thrivg LGBTQ social scen, same-sex marriage and adoptn are not allowed and LGBTQ people are not legally protected agast people Cha say their safe spac have been squeezed unr Print Xi Jpg, who has overseen a crackdown on advocy groups sce g to power a ago.