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?
In foreign countries, the US will often try to hide their spy operations behind things like gay nightclubs, so that the governments of these nations crack down on them, and the US can sell of their “rainbow imperialism” to their people and so that gay people become increasingly marginalized (and increasingly easy to radicalise.)
That would be my guess, that this place was shut down because their owners were found to be in bed with the yanks or something like that.
Apparently during the Cold War, the GDR was concerned about just such a possibility, so they opened a whole bunch of state-funded gay bars