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LGBTQ in China
The latest news, analysis and opinion on LGBTQ in China. In-depth analysis, industry insights and expert opinion.
OUT Museum founder Xiangqi Chen looks toward “Collective Notation,” an interactive installation displayed at the Chinatown museum, Monday, June 22, 2026, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
Art

World’s first Chinese LGBTQ museum spotlights overlooked community

Out Museum in San Francisco’s Chinatown gives artists from China and the Chinese diaspora a platform to tell their stories.

Women and gender

Pride Month 2026 marked by backslide in LGBTQ rights

Asian cinema: Hong Kong film

Review | We’re Nothing at All: Herman Yau’s grim social critique lacks all subtlety

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Trending in China

China wife of gay husband contests estate against his lover, parents after man’s death

Homosexuals posed as ‘father and son’ in public before older of the two was killed in road accident, sparking bitter legal dispute.

In China, after a gay man’s death in a car accident, his wife contested his estate against his lover and parents, leading to a bitter legal dispute. Photo: Shutterstock
LGBTQ

China’s LGBTQ community loses safe spaces as Blued, Finka apps vanish

Women and gender

China’s LGBTQ community loses key lifeline as Blued, Finka apps vanish

Purge of popular same-sex dating sites from app stores fuels fears about shrinking digital spaces for the country’s LGBTQ community.

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AI censorship’ of horror film raises fears for China’s LGBTQ cinema

AI censorship’ of horror film raises fears for China’s LGBTQ cinema
Lunar

Beijing prepares to host women’s summit

Women and gender

‘AI censorship’ of Together raises new fears for future of Chinese LGBTQ films

A public outcry over a scene where a gay couple were turned into a heterosexual one has triggered a wider debate about the use of technology.

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LGBTQ

China’s LGBT creators face growing online censorship

China’s LGBT creators face growing online censorship
Hong Kong

This week in PostMag: HK’s underground ballroom scene and Chinese fine dining

From Lin Zihan’s innovative approach at Wild Yeast in Hangzhou to the art of voguing, identity and cultural shifts are themes explored this week.

Mother Wan Sassy Savage of the Kiki House of Sassy Savage strikes a pose for the cover of this week’s print issue. Photo: Eugene Chan
Hong Kong

This week in PostMag: China’s salt capital and a Mekong cruise

Christopher St. Cavish talks China’s ‘salt capital’, David Swanson leads us down a river cruise and Bibek Bhandari remembers 2000s-era Beijing.

Crime in China

Chinese police target writers of gay erotica with prison terms and heavy fines

The crackdown in Anhui has triggered debates about possible abuses of power and whether the law itself is too heavy-handed.

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Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals

Hong Kong at risk of mpox outbreak as population has low immunity, experts say

World Health Organization has declared mpox outbreaks in Africa public health emergency of international concern.

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A colorised electron microscope image shows mpox particles in red found within an infected cell, shown as blue. Photo: AP
Paris 2024 Olympic Games

Chinese Taipei fans hammer JK Rowling over ‘trans’ comments aimed at boxer

Author, a vocal opponent to trans rights, calls Lin Yu-ting part of the ‘insanity’ of trans athletes competing in women’s sport.

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Author JK Rowling critical of the IOC’s decision to allow Lin Yu-ting to compete in women’s boxing events despite her being a biological female. Photo: AP
Art

My tour of Shanghai’s art scene with Talk Art podcast host Russell Tovey

Gay British actor, podcaster and LGBTQ icon Russell Tovey visits Shanghai where, in between gallery visits, he co-curates a David Hockney show and de facto Pride party.

Hong Kong society

Video | How a HK$1 billion manhunt pushed Gigi Chao from the closet to LGBTQ activist

Hong Kong LGBTQ activist Gigi Chao talks about her life and relationship with tycoon father, who offered a ‘dowry’ for any man who could marry her.

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Video | How Chengdu became known as China’s ‘gay capital’

Although same-sex unions aren’t legally recognised in China, the first symbolic gay marriages happened in Chengdu.

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For many, Chengdu has become synonymous with openness.
LGBTQ

Video | How Chengdu became known as China’s ‘gay capital’

LGBTQ

Taiwan’s drag queens celebrate Nymphia Wind’s win on RuPaul’s Drag Race

Taiwan-raised Nymphia Wind recently won RuPaul’s Drag Race – the first East Asian drag artist to do so. We look at how drag culture has evolved on the island and talk to some of its leading lights.

From our archives

On This Day | Taiwan legalises same-sex marriage in landmark ruling – from the SCMP archive

On this day five years ago, Taiwan lawmakers voted in favour of recognising same-sex unions, making it the first place in Asia to do so.

Couples Shane Lin (right) and Marc Yuan, and Cynical Chick (left) and Li Ying-Chien, kiss after registering for marriage at the Household Registration Office in Taipei, Taiwan on May 24, 2019. Photo: Reuters
Hong Kong youth

Letters | We can inspire young people to dream by just giving them a chance

Readers discuss the best ways to support young people, how Hong Kong should use its tourism dollars, and the importance of gender diversity and expression in sports.

Graduates celebrate at the Chinese University of Hong Kong on November 9, 2023. Photo: Elson Li
Asian cinema: Hong Kong film

How Stanley Kwan explored sexuality in his films Lan Yu and Hold You Tight

Hold You Tight and Lan Yu were daring films for their time. The first stars Chingmy Yau, then an actress in adults-only films, as a bored wife who has an affair, while the latter is a stylish gay drama.

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Old Hong Kong

Then & Now | All you need to know about soybeans – including their lesbian link

Healthy and full of protein, soybeans have been a popular foodstuff in China for centuries. Here’s how they’re processed, made into products like soy sauce – and used in Cantonese to refer to lesbians.

Hong Kong society

Hong Kong introduces national security risk test for all visa applicants

Director of Immigration Benson Kwok reveals department will evaluate background and ‘past statements’ of visa applicants to determine whether they pose a risk.

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Director of Immigration Benson Kwok shows off his department’s new self-service document submission kiosk. Photo: May Tse
Lessons from China's history

Reflections | Did Chinese emperor identify as a woman like Roman emperor Elagabalus?

Reports of Roman emperor Elagabalus begging to undergo gender transition and Chinese emperor Ming of the Wei dynasty wearing feminine fashions show why we should sometimes question historical accounts.

Roman emperor Elagabalus parades on a chariot in an engraving from 1888. A British museum now refers to the emperor as a trans woman. Did Chinese emperor Ming of the Wei dynasty also identity as a woman, as records suggest? Photo: Getty Images
Trending in China

Trans rights boosted in China as court backs sacked worker, calls for ‘respect’

The rights of transgender workers in China have been given a shot in the arm after a Beijing court ruled in favour of an employee who was fired for taking time off to recover from gender reassignment surgery.

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Hong Kong society

Opinion | Open and inclusive society? Not judging by ongoing outrage over Gay Games

Priscilla Leung’s off-script warning at a Basic Law forum that any discussion of gay marriage could tear society apart and have a bigger impact than the enactment of local national security laws merits deeper scrutiny.

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