Beijing LGBT Center became the latest group to stop operations “due to forces beyond our control”.
“Organisers have been detained, and their friends and family members have been questioned by the police. This results in a lot of mental health pressure,” said the activist, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
“Before the pandemic, the environment for LGBT groups was great. We could speak out loud and we won some legal cases,” the activist added.
“I think we were too loud.”
And in the same breath Russia comes up with this crap: Russian sexologists to target homosexuality, other ‘disorders’ under new rules
It’s like a perverted competition to see who can be more pigheaded vis-a-vis “tradition”.
I worry about this in the United States. We see companies like Bud and Target bowing to coercive hate campaigns from the alt-right; how long until community groups are targeted and the government itself starts looking away?
I think we need to be very leery about regression even in our own backyard.
