CCTV commentators covering the opening ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics fell silent during a skit hinting at a ménage à trois, a scene inspired by the great French writer Victor Hugo’s line, “The freedom to love is no less...
Nymphia Wind, a Taiwanese drag queen, has won the 16th season of the American reality TV competition show RuPaul’s Drag Race. Her victory has been cause for quiet celebration in China, where drag is in the ascendant despite...
The shuttering of the Beijing LGBT Center marks the latest setback for China’s queer community. In a terse statement published to WeChat, the Center offered no explanation for its sudden closure beyond force majeure. Founded in...
Word of the week: Westernized Lifestyle (生活西化 shēnghuó xīhuà) Chinese state media’s clumsy coverage of the Oscar-winning film “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” has given birth to a new euphemism for homosexuality:...
In a rare instance of a legal challenge to restrictions on LGBTQ+ rights, two Tsinghua University students filed a lawsuit last week against the Chinese Ministry of Education for refusing to consider their appeal against...
Life has not gotten easier for China’s LGBTQ+ communities. A looming demographic crisis has inspired calls to strengthen traditional family structures and produce more children, while rising nationalism and xenophobia have...
May 17 is International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia; but for some students at China’s elite Peking University, the day was marred by harassment directed against those who dared to mark it. The harassment of...
Leaked documents revealed last weekend that Shanghai University has ordered its colleges to collect lists of LGBTQ+ students and report on their personal lives. Citing unspecified “relevant requirements,” the university of...
A Chinese queer media platform had its WeChat account shut down after it reported on the closure of an LGBTQ-friendly hostel in Wuhan, China. GS, short for GaySpot (乐点 Lè Diǎn), became the latest victim of the clampdown on...
On Monday, Chinese microblogging platform Weibo cancelled plans, announced four days previously,...
Yu Hu, a Chinese man who was forced by his family to undergo gay “conversion therapy”...
The Furong district court in Hunan province has accepted a lawsuit filed against the Changsha...
Al Jazeera’s digital news channel AJ+ has released a video report profiling LGBT rights...
A Chinese psychiatric clinic has been ordered to pay compensation to a gay man who sued the clinic...
Gay rights activists in China are becoming increasingly worried after a lawsuit filed against gay...
At That’s magazine, Will Philipps writes about the Beijing’s growing community of...
China Real Time interviewed residents of Beijing to hear their views on gay marriage and how...
At Aeon, Leslie Anne Jones recounts her experiences with Chinese censorship at a Shanghai...
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