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SHANGHAI GAY PRI

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Homosexualy was crimalised Cha 1997 and the Che Society of Psychiatry stopped classifyg as a mental disorr 2019, the Natnal People's Congrs, Cha's top legislative body, acknowledged that the legalisatn of same-sex marriage was one of the top requts om cizens. But space for LGBT advocy has shnk recent years, along wh a clampg down of civil rights movements and onle 2021, a notice om Cha's tn mistry ed a stir after suggted that young Che men had bee too "feme" mistry lled on schools to fully reform their offergs on physil tn and strengthen their recment of advised recg retired athlet and people om sportg backgrounds - and "vigoroly velopg" particular sports like football wh a view to "cultivatg stunts' masculy" that year, Cha's broadstg regulator said would ban "effemate" athetics entertament shows and that "vulgar fluencers" should be Natnal Rad and Televisn Admistratn also pledged to promote what fed as more mascule imag of men and cricised male celebri who ed lots of make velopments e even as some LGBT dividuals have grown police officer Ma Baoli who ma headl when he abandoned a nearly two--long reer law enforcement to start a gay datg app, Blued, is one of them.

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It started wh an outdoor “rabow bike ri” on May 17 (as a way to observe the Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia [IDAHBT]), then featured a seri of activi June, cludg job fairs, a pri n, parti, film screengs, and LGBTQ-themed talks and public foms, before endg wh a month-long LGBTQ art exhibn. “I searched Shanghai gay events on Google — the webse uld still be accsed Cha back then — and Shanghai Pri popped up after the nam of a few gay bars.

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LGBTQ rights advocy lawyer Liú Míngkē 刘明珂 livered a public talk on the TED-like platform Yīxí 一席 on discrmatn agast transgenr and gay people Cha. 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.

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Gay rights advot say they are stunned and sadned by the news, which me not long after this year’s Shanghai Pri, succsfully held offle mid-June spe challeng posed by the Covid-19 panmic. Homosexualy is not illegal Cha and, 2001, the thori removed om an official list of mental disorrs.

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. Sce 2016, Che censors have banned portrayals of what they see as “abnormal sexual behavrs, ” cludg gay relatnships, TV and onle shows. The 29-year-old artist om central Cha has said fdg domtic venu willg to display gay-themed artwork remas a dntg task.