Is China Going The Way Of Russia.

China used to brag about accepting us, the LGBTQ+ community but it is starting to look like they are following Russia anti-LGBTQ+ policies.

Famed transgender dancer has shows canceled in China. Some fear a wider crackdown

By Chris Lau, CNN

January 3, 2025

Transgender dancer Jin Xing’s ascent to the upper echelons of Chinese show business is extraordinary in a nation where it has become increasingly difficult for LGBTQ+ people to live openly.

The 57-year-old has been a transgender icon in China for years, admired by some of the country’s most marginalized as a rare example of both success and acceptance, even within officialdom.

But a recent series of sudden and unexplained cancelations by local authorities of appearances by her dance troupe has sparked fears Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s authoritarian drive is ensnaring the country’s most prominent openly transgender personality.

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Chinese state media have called her one of “10 legendary figures of Chinese modern dance” and frequently publish glowing profiles.

But now things seems to have changed… Poof! Now you see her, now you don’t.

But signs suggest official acceptance of Jin could now be waning.

Chinese authorities have ramped up ideological control over what they consider the undue influence of Western values, including a crackdown on the LGBTQ+ community.

Late last year, authorities in the southern metropolis of Guangzhou canceled her Jin Xing Dance Theater’s show, citing insufficient documents. Subsequently, venues in other parts of the country also dropped her shows, without explanation.

Some from the transgender community are now worried that Chinese authorities are trying to send a message.

Sam Winter, an associate professor who specializes in Asian transgender issues at Curtin University in Australia, said Jin managed to rally support from the authorities because of her years of achievement – which was hard for officials to dismiss, and began at a time when China seemed to be liberalizing.

“But things seem to have changed. Maybe the earlier shift towards a more liberal atmosphere was the problem,” he said.

We are the low hanging fruit, when you need a scapegoat we are it!

Radio Free Asia reports...

Nearly five years after democratic Taiwan legalized same-sex marriage, LGBTQ+ activism is all but extinct across the Taiwan Strait, where the ruling Chinese Communist Party under Xi Jinping has cracked down on anyone displaying the rainbow flag in public, members of China's LGBTQ+ community told Radio Free Asia in recent interviews.

On May 17, 2019, Taiwan passed historic legislation confirming a constitutional right of same-sex couples to marry, making the democratic island the first jurisdiction in the Asia region to do so and prompting a wave of weddings amid a congratulatory tweet from democratically elected president Tsai Ing-wen.

But Chinese propaganda officials warned media organizations there not to make a big deal of the story.

While major Chinese cities once had a thriving LGBTQ+ scene, a gay millennial man born in China who gave only the nickname Haohao said he has noticed a sharp decline in support or respect for the rights of sexual minorities in China, compared with just a few years ago.

"It's become pretty clear in the past few years that they don't want us to say or do anything," Haohao said, adding that gay bars and nightspots have been shutting down, while the rainbow Pride flag is basically banned in public.

Dictators, despots, and tyrants find us easy to demonize... we are not like an ethic community we are only 0.5% of the population and it is easy to get the people to hate us.

Meanwhile, in Russia...

Yakutsk Police Detain Nightclub Staff After Raid on Alleged Transgender Performances

Moscow Times

Jan. 2, 2025

Police in the republic of Sakha (Yakutia) detained staff at a nightclub after officials accused the venue of hosting performances featuring transgender entertainers from Thailand, local media reported Thursday.

The raid, conducted at the club Number One in Yakutsk, was prompted by a complaint from the Yakutsk Administrative Commission, which accused the club of “publicly promoting non-traditional relationships and gender transition” through performances by invited transgender men and women from Thailand.

Photos and video published earlier on Telegram purportedly showed the erotic performances at Number One.

Felix Antonov, head of the Yakutsk Administrative Commission, told SakhaDay.ru that the raid did not uncover the alleged transgender performers. However, police detained the club’s manager, bartenders and waitstaff, although it remains whether they face charges.

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Russia's Supreme Court banned the so-called "international LGBT movement" as "extremist" in 2023, effectively criminalizing any form of LGBTQ+ displays or rights advocacy in the country.