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?
I went to the Center’s website that is linked on Wikipedia, and the all the images on there are porn. I can’t read Chinese so idk what the text says. What’s up with that??
This article is dated May 16, the group’s notice was posted on May 15, so the website was probably shut down. You can try web.archive.org.
Honestly it looks like it got bought and has been used by someone else? The domain has been registered with the current owner since 2022-05-07, and if you look at the Wayback Machine for 2022-05-12 it says it’s up for sale. It looks like the domain used to be used for the Center, for example this snapshot from 2016. Even back in March 2023 the site wasn’t showing porn but was not being used by the Center.