I’m not sure if this is the correct sub for this and apologies if it’s in the wrong place.
Okay so first things first - this is a clearly bullshit article. It’s published by a US state propaganda mouthpiece, and consists of about 30% “a thing happened and we have no information about why” and 70% screed against evil CCP. I have the critical reading skills to understand that there’s nothing of value here.
However, I can’t read Mandarin so my ability to actually find out what’s really going on is essentially non-existent. I was hoping maybe someone here could help me get more information on what this LGBT center was doing and why it was shuttered so I can file that away for future discussions with my queer acquaintances that are less open minded about China. Was it a front for US NGOs to push capitalism with a rainbow flag? Was it something completely mundane like not paying taxes or filing some paperwork? Is it just an unfortunate case of LGBT people being mistaken for western chauvinism again?
There was some discussion of LGBT in China here a while back. This thread, and the link to a thread on /r/sino were pretty enlightening for me. The impression I got was that it was unnecessary fanning of political flames.
https://lemmygrad.ml/post/741662
Yeah so apparently the co-founder of the LGBT center is a fellow with the NED which is immediately extremely suspicious so…yeah probably shut down for being another front for US government funded “regime change” operations.
Oh that’s fantastic, thank you! I’m not sure why that didn’t turn up on my reddit search of r/sino, oh well.
Because it is in Lemmygrad, they said “/r/” by accident, it should be “/c/”.