Xinyu Wen traveled to Thailand in June, planning a two-week vacation around Bangkok’s Pride parade. But the 28-year-old ended up staying a month and a half, soaking up the Thai capital’s thriving LBGTQ+ community.

Xinyu Wen traveled to Thailand in June, planning a two-week vacation around Bangkok’s Pride parade. But the 28-year-old ended up staying a month and a half, soaking up the Thai capital’s thriving LBGTQ+ community.

  • HobbitFoot English
    2013·
    1 year ago

    Yeah, a lot of people seem to think that Communists are more LGBT friendly than average governments, but that doesn’t seem to be the case.

      • HobbitFoot English
        144·
        1 year ago

        Yeah, but even when it was communist, it wasn’t LBGT friendly.

        • zephyreks@programming.dev
          31·
          1 year ago

          You’ll get protection if discrimination passes a certain point, but it’s really more of a “hey you shouldn’t treat people that way” and not a “hey you shouldn’t treat gay people that way.”

          A lot of older Chinese people just feel that the Western LGBT environment is rather odd: the rampant sexualization and PDA is at odds with the traditionally conservative culture. If the LGBT movement had adopted a more traditional protest scheme rather than the flair of flamboyance it has today, it would have seen much more support in China imo.

          Also, a lot of Chinese TV has homoerotic undertones, idk what you’re watching.

            • lilShalom@lemmy.basedcount.com
              26·
              1 year ago

              In the 90s when lgbt was quieter, they said what happens in my bedroom is my business. Well now its everyones business weather you like it or not. With gen z, if youre not one of them youre a homophobe. Screw your preferences.

    • Joncash2@lemmy.ml
      1211·
      1 year ago

      Yeah but the problem with your argument is it’s the Chinese people that aren’t LGBTQ friendly. The communist government actually is.

      Here’s an article from the CCP celebrating LGBTQ people getting their equivalent of civil unions.

      https://news.cgtn.com/news/2019-08-09/LGBT-couples-in-China-file-for-voluntary-guardianship-J15eC8QcrC/index.html

      Here’s a list of popular Chinese Boy Love dramas that were created in China and approved by the CCP

      https://litdarlings.com/10-best-chinese-bl-dramas-to-watch-now/

      Yes, China censors actual kissing and physical contact in their LGBTQ films, however, that actually applies to straight films too. China just likes to censor things. However, it does not actively pick on LGBTQ.

      The problem is the people, as per the article

      Being gay is not illegal in China, At home, Wen said she regularly gets judgmental stares on the street for wearing her hair short like a man’s, and was once asked by her barber: “What happened to your life?”