Homosexuality has long been vilified as foreign in China. Progress made in the 2000s is now being hampered by anti-Western sentiment
In the past, such clampdowns have met resistance. In 2018 Weibo, a Twitter-like service, announced a three-month campaign to eradicate pornographic, gay and violent content from its services. In 2019 the platform shut down a discussion group called Les, aimed at homosexual women. It had 140,000 members. In both cases, online anger prompted Weibo to rethink. The service conducted the clean-up, but decided not to suppress content simply for being gay-themed. It allowed the lesbian group to reopen.
accounts as a victory for patriots. “External forces are trying to weaken China’s competitiveness by spreading propaganda aboutto reduce China’s fertility rate,” wrote one blogger, gathering more than 66,000 views. Some accusedgroups of trying to promote a “colour revolution” in China, a reference to uprisings against other autocratic regimes. Hongwei Bao of Nottingham University says popular nationalism in China sometimes adopts the language of the far right in the West.
Homosexuality has long been vilified as foreign in China. But in the 2000s, as China grappled with rising rates of, the government dialled back the bigotry. In 2001 it removed homosexuality from an official list of mental disorders. Since then, at thepeople. At least in big cities, gay people have reported growing acceptance of their sexuality among fellow citizens. “The government doesn’t really care,” says Eric Wang , who works for an-rights organisation in mainland China.
But rising anti-Western sentiment is hampering this progress. Nationalists, egged on by the Communist Party, have become even more vocal during the covid-19 pandemic. They have trumpeted China’s success in controlling the virus while heaping scorn on the West’s fumbling response. Mr Wang says a growing number of Chinese, even those who know gay and transgender people, have started “believing in conspiracy theories”.
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