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January 03, 2006

Tongzhi palari

The 2005 Beijing Gay and Lesbian Cultural Festival was shut down under the apparent pretext of difficulties with the plumbing at the event venue. This despite the fact of state-owned publishers cranking out the Chinese equivalent of a palari dictionary. Danwei offers an observation that might equally be directed at many Western counterparts to the official line in mainland China.

The message from the government is quite clear: be as gay as you want, just don't try to organize a large group of people to get together and talk about it too loudly.

That said, the ongoing Falun Gong protest outside the Chinese consulate a few streets over from Flea Towers suggests the issue here is more to do with the "don't try to organize a large group" part than the don't "talk about it too loudly" part.

Posted by Ghost of a flea at January 3, 2006 08:47 AM

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