On the other hand, Gulik's study argued that the Mongol Yuan dynasty introduced a more ascetic attitude to sexuality in general. įor most of the 20th century, homosexual sex was banned in the People's Republic of China until it was legalized in 1997. In a survey by the organization WorkForLGBT of 18,650 lesbians, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people, 3% of males and 6% of females surveyed described themselves as 'completely out'. A third of the men surveyed, as well as 9% of the women surveyed said they were in the closet about their sexuality.
18% of men surveyed answered they had come out to their families, while around 80% were reluctant due to family pressure. There was a step forward for the China LGBT community after the Weibo incident in April 2018, where the public outcry over the platform for banning homosexual content led the platform to withdraw the decision. 7 Slang in contemporary Chinese gay culture.4 Gay, lesbian and queer culture in contemporary mainland China.Yet, in 2021 Weibo censored the accounts of numerous LGBT student organizations without any prior warning. An example of the latter term appears in a 6th-century poem by Liu Xiaozhuo: Traditional terms for homosexuality included ' the passion of the cut sleeve' ( Chinese: 斷袖之癖 pinyin: duànxiù zhī pǐ), and 'the divided peach' ( Chinese: 分桃 pinyin: fēntáo).
