China has had a series of new legislatures and content that has transformed it into one of the largest anti-LGBTQ countries in the world. Recently, however, the Chinese government has taken steps to ensure the erasure of this content because they believe it has the “wrong set of values.”
For the last seven years, since the General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Xi Jinping took power, the Chinese government has attempted to control the culture and the entertainment industry. This includes massive restrictions on LGBTQ culture, including the chance to live publically as a queer person.
In the last few weeks, China has started to put in new regulations that will severely restrict LGBTQ beliefs. China has announced new regulations which will restrict LGBTQ culture.
In a report by PC Gamer, China has slowed its approval process for new online games so that they can “reduce gaming addiction.” They were actually also limiting games with the “wrong set of values,” which includes gay love.
“The authorities ordered the enterprises and platforms to tighten examination of the contents of their games,” a follow-up report from the State Council of the People’s Republic of China stated. “Obscene and violent content and those breeding unhealthy tendencies, such as money-worship and effeminacy, should be removed.”
Effeminacy is a term that describes the manifestation of men or boys having “feminine qualities that are untypical of a man.”
China has taken lots of steps to restrict this content, and it does not stop at games. They are also attempting to ban any and all state-media that is described as having “sissy males” and “vulgar Internet celebrities” from TV and are now trying to focus on promoting “revolutionary culture,” which reflects the morality and values of China’s Communist Party.
Even though China has taken steps to decriminalize homosexual beliefs in the late 1990s, there is still a major discrimination problem in employment, health care and other areas because of the backlash that the LGBTQ community receives. There have been discrimination court cases against the Chinese government, but their law does not protect people based on sexual identity because it can be seen as a “mental disorder or a confusion of sexual desires,” according to most of their textbooks.
China has already made steps to limit gaming content online and banned any performer who “violates public order.” Programs about those lifestyles are also banned, as well as any content featuring people who are gay, lesbian or trans.
This issue has been happening for a long time, with other parts of the same country holding protests for “equal love” and allowing people to fly rainbow-colored flags.
