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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But he noted that prejudic rema, cg an cint which several artists were prsured by iends to pull out of a show due to Dtatn beg a “gay venue. “People would jt ll me and say, ‘I’m gay, I’m an artist … I pat gay sex’ and expect to be selected, ” he said.
“I cid to pat what I was yearng, ” relled the 34-year-old gay artist, who has pated more than 1, 000 male bodi over the past eight years. Sce 2016, Che censors have banned portrayals of what they see as “abnormal sexual behavrs, ” cludg gay and lbian relatnships, TV and onle shows. Filmmakers say regulatg movi is also creasgly nservative and unpredictable – albe whout an explic ban on homosexualy.
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“This sense of uncertaty on censorship l is the worst, bee nobody is sure about anythg, ” said Popo Fan, a proment gay filmmaker who has lived Berl sce 2017. Fan’s latt short feature “Floss, ” which he shot Cha durg a vis last April, is about a gay man’s fetish for his lover’s teeth.