TOPIC

LGBTQ in China

LGBTQ in China
The latest news, analysis and opinion on LGBTQ in China. In-depth analysis, industry insights and expert opinion.
Beijing prepares to host women’s summit
Lunar

Beijing prepares to host women’s summit

LGBTQ

China’s LGBT creators face growing online censorship

Hong Kong

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

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.

The Shenhai Salt Well, in Zigong, Sichuan province, on this week’s PostMag print cover. Photo: Graeme Kennedy
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.

videocam
8
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.

5
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
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.

videocam
40
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.

videocam
LGBTQ

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.

videocam
For many, Chengdu has become synonymous with openness.
LGBTQ

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

How Chengdu became China’s unofficial ‘gay capital’ despite uncertain LGBTQ rights
05:36
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.

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.

videocam
Hu Jun (left) and Liu Ye in a still from Lan Yu, the 2001 film by Hong Kong director Stanley Kwan.
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.

videocam
69
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
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.

videocam
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.

videocam
18
Hong Kong society

Are Hong Kong government agencies giving Gay Games the cold shoulder?

Four ‘supporting organisations’ have done little to help with grants, venues or promotion efforts

videocam
56
The Gay Games event in Hong Kong was originally set to kick off last year, but was delayed amid the pandemic. Photo: Handout
Women and gender

Opinion | China banning clothes that hurt national feelings would be a stitch too far

Proposal to criminalise clothes that hurt national feelings is a step too far. Concerns are already growing as young people wearing kimonos or T-shirts with rainbows are barred by security, even detained by police

videocam
23
First-grade students in hanfu hold up cards with the character “ren” meaning “person” during an initiation ceremony to learn about traditional culture at a primary school in Anlong county, Guizhou province, on August 28. Photo: AFP
Thailand

China’s LGBTQ tourists flock to Thailand to ‘forget all upsetting things’

Bangkok is only a five-hour flight from Beijing, and Thailand’s tourism authorities actively promote it as among the region’s most open destinations to LGBTQ people.

videocam
Human rights in China

Chinese LGBTQ organisations look for ways to survive crackdown

LGBTQ groups in China battling increased censorship and police checks since Covid-19 pandemic

videocam
4
China-EU relations

The odd couple: German far right shows unlikely affinity for Communist China

China has embraced the relationship with the Alternative for Germany party, which sent a high-ranking delegation to Beijing and Shanghai for a week-long visit in June.

videocam
62
Illustration: Eunice Tse
LGBTQ

‘I tried my very best’: host of Hong Kong’s axed LGBTQ radio show reflects

Brian Leung, the host of Hong Kong’s recently cancelled LGBTQ radio show We Are Family, reflects on 17 years of the programme, and why he’s not surprised about its abrupt axing.

Brian Leung, the host of Hong Kong’s recently cancelled LGBTQ radio show “We Are Family”, is “proud” of working on the show for 17 years, but wasn’t surprised when he found out it was going to be cancelled in July. Photo: Edmond So
Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals

‘No need to panic’ over Hong Kong’s spike in mpox cases, as vaccination centre opens

Concern groups urge individuals at risk to get vaccinated, and make sure to know their sex partners.

11
Hong Kong society

RTHK cancels Hong Kong’s only LGBTQ radio show, ‘a step backward for community’

Host Brian Leung and others say show made a big impact on LGBTQ community by airing issues that mattered.

videocam
38
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Help preserve 120 years of quality journalism.
SUPPORT NOW
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement