Beg Asian Amerin and LGBTQ+ n feel lonely, wh stutns such as ethnic church often disavowg non-heterosexual relatnships while tradnal LGBTQ+ spac such as gay bars n be unwelg.
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GAY EMPERORS CHE HISTORY
Morn Cha has a plited relatnship wh homosexualy: It was crimalized 1997, but queer dividuals ntue to face social stigma and issu like nversn therapy and censorship of LGBTQ topics on Weibo.
Some historians, however, argue that the suatn was much different ancient history: In Che history, wh Tamkang Universy rearchg Liu Demg even suggtg a 2009 paper that homo-erotic relatnships were trendy among noble and tellectual men durg the Qg dynasty. The last emperor of the Wtern Han dynasty, who led om the 7 BCE to 1 BCE, was the spiratn of the idm “Sleeve-cuttg affectn, ” which refers to homosexualy. Th, the phrase “Leftover peach affectn” (余桃之癖) also beme a chengyu to scribe a homosexual relatnship (see a pattern?
CHA’S GAY EMPEROR KNOWN FOR HIS ‘CUT SLEEVE’
The source material impli that Ai’s favorism and homosexualy undid the entire Wtern Han. Through the dynasti, one of the most mon phemisms for a homosexual has been “cut sleeve” (断袖 duàn xiù).
Mg and Qg dynasty thors would tle erotic homosexual stori as “Rerds of the Cut Sleeve. ” Police Republin Beijg would label homosexual behavr as “predilectn of the cut sleeve.
Today Cha, as many plac, homosexualy is merely tolerated rather than accepted: gay clubs n rema open, provid they stay out of the public eye. But Cha’s long history of homosexualy giv hope to many the LGBTQ muny, a untry that only removed the orientatn om an official list of “mental illns” 2001.