Hearing talk that the new Harry Potter movie is being “censored” by removing talk abt Dumblefuck and Grimshit being in love at one point or another. Thing is, there’s never any sources provided, especially never in the Chinese perspective, it doesn’t line up with what China would usually do (as there is a lot of LGBT media in China and popular LGBT people who get representation across the nation). And yet people often smear the country as being less progressive as the US, the country that has passed extremely discriminatory laws against LGBT people while in China there’s trans healthcare. Doesn’t make sense. Any of y’all know more about the subject than I do who can send me sources about the topic?
I did hear it was getting much better though, do you know anything about that?
Absolutely. China is still developing and growing its ideas towards LGBT people (like every other country on Earth) it follows that the self-censorship will mellow with time.
It’s a relatively new phenomenon, the Mainland produced some (questionable at times) LGBT content up to 10 years ago. It’s not a feature of “Chinese media” by any means. Online/independent communities keep making it. It will get better.
This is key. These countries have to struggle for lgbtq rights on their own terms. No one claims China or any other AES country is a bastion for sexual freedom. But libs think that because they aren’t that they deserve to be balkanized, which is straight up psychopathy.
Don’t forget that most post-Communist countries didn’t become LGBT paradises. They’re rightist hellscapes now. One of the worst disservices we could make to Chinese LGBT people is advocate for the dissolution of the Communist goverment.