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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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. “This is a dark day for , and I don’t know if there’s anythg I uld do other than reachg out to my iends and fortg them, ” Kev, a gay man Chengdu, told Al Jazeera, after hearg the news.
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From time to time, the ernment has equated homosexualy wh vlence and obsceny, censored pictns on televisn and allowed books to refer to homosexualy as a kd of mental illns. Cha’s more nservative forc have often exhibed a vehement hatred towards homosexualy or genr nonnformy for an alleged “agenda to stroy tradnal valu, ” acrdg to some vol opponents of the movement, cludg some that brand themselv as science wrers such as Vacce and Science, an acunt wh more than five ln followers. A report on Cha’s LGBTIQ movement published this month by ILGA Asia, the regnal arm of the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn, found “limed visibily of LGBTIQ issu social media and onle activism is a vulnerable state due to strict censorship by the thorarian ernment.
On social media, for example, stead of beg lled “upl” or “boyiends, ” same-sex partners are scribed as “roommat” to liberately make the “gayns” ls visible. “This is [the ernment’s] implic tactic of cludg homosexualy to the heteronormative narrative, th riddg the LGBT group of their polil voice, ” wrote one WeChat er.
ILGA says that spe the “bleak scenar” there rema “opportuni” particularly areas of vlence and discrimatn agast the gay muny and legal rights advocy. A more assertive, self-reliant Cha has rulted a subtle but nstant narrowg of gay spacPhotographer: GREG BAKER/AFPHello, I’m Colum Murphy, a reporter on our Cha ernment team based Beijg, wh a look at the steady erosn of gay life Cha. First, here are your headl: This week’s top stori:Up NextBeg Gay Cha Has Gotten Harr Unr Xi Jpg.