The World's Worst Place to be Gay? It's Cha, Acrdg to New Rankg

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• BEG GAY CHA HAS GOTTEN HARR UNR XI JPG
• LIFE IS GETTG HARR FOR GAY PEOPLE CHA
• GAY CHA
• THE WORLD'S WORST PLACE TO BE GAY? IT'S CHA, ACRDG TO NEW RANKG
• HOW NATNALISM IS MAKG LIFE HARR FOR GAY PEOPLE CHA
• GAY SHANGHAI

BEG GAY CHA HAS GOTTEN HARR UNR XI JPG

A gay stunt pos wh a rabow flag Beijg. 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. 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.

LIFE IS GETTG HARR FOR GAY PEOPLE CHA

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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.

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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.

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THE WORLD'S WORST PLACE TO BE GAY? IT'S CHA, ACRDG TO NEW RANKG

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The worst place the world for LGBT to live is Cha, acrdg to a survey that puts Beijg at the bottom of a list of most welg ci, alongsi several other Che celebrate Pri Month, German hog webse Ntpick ranked the most welg ci for people who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer. Beijg me last out of a 100 ci, while Shanghai sat at number 89 and Hong Kong at the other end, Madrid topped the list, followed by Amsterdam, Toronto, Tel Aviv and week, Shanghai Pri activists told The Daily Beast about LGBT life Cha, sayg that although gay clubs exist, few people e out as many people stggle to be accepted by fai and the state. Homosexualy Cha was crimalized 1997, and was removed om an official list of mental illns a few years later.

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A 2013 survey by the Pew Rearch Center found that jt 21 percent of Cha's populatn was favor of homosexualy. There are clics Cha offer still offer "nversn therapy" to most Cha do not follow monotheistic relign, unlike many untri wh low acceptance of homosexualy, many parts of society still hold nservative views on social issu. However, a study nducted by Pekg Universy 2016 found that 58 percent of gay and straight Che people felt that LGBT people were ostracized by their fai.

In the same survey, jt 15 percent of gay people said they had e out to their fai, and fewer than half said that had gone homosexualy is not illegal, the state do some ways rtrict LGBT visibily. Cha's strict censorship laws extend to film—as well as polil censhorship, cuttg scen that portray the ernment an unflatterg light, the thori have removed scen pictg homosexualy, for stance, Michael Fassbenr's gay alien kiss was cut out of the movie Alien: Covenant, acrdg to The Hollywood Reporter. "Stephen", one of the two lns rabow lors to show support for the LGBT (lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr) muny, is newly displayed at HSBC's ma branch Hong Kong, Cha December 7, 2016.

And, as the gay-iendly venue listgs Time Out and Con Naste Traveler show, 's still possible to have fun. In 2018 Weibo, a Twter-like service, announced a three-month mpaign to eradite pornographic, gay and vlent ntent om s servic.