Beijing LGBT Center shuttered as crackdown grows in China
apnews.com
An advocacy group that served as a safe space for the LGBTQ community in Beijing has been shut down as part of a government pressure campaign against gay rights groups.

I’m not sure if this is the correct sub for this and apologies if it’s in the wrong place.

Okay so first things first - this is a clearly bullshit article. It’s published by a US state propaganda mouthpiece, and consists of about 30% “a thing happened and we have no information about why” and 70% screed against evil CCP. I have the critical reading skills to understand that there’s nothing of value here.

However, I can’t read Mandarin so my ability to actually find out what’s really going on is essentially non-existent. I was hoping maybe someone here could help me get more information on what this LGBT center was doing and why it was shuttered so I can file that away for future discussions with my queer acquaintances that are less open minded about China. Was it a front for US NGOs to push capitalism with a rainbow flag? Was it something completely mundane like not paying taxes or filing some paperwork? Is it just an unfortunate case of LGBT people being mistaken for western chauvinism again?

  • qwename@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    I updated my comment:

    Some people don’t get it, it’s not meant to insult homosexuals, it’s meant to insult socialism and the CPC, because we call each other comrades!

    Update:

    You know what, I think it’s both an insult to socialists and homosexuals, because people who use it to insinuate that socialists are all homosexuals think that it would be insulting to call anyone homosexual.