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If China starts accepting queer people then it's going on my list of potential asylum states.
Uh, you can have a civil union in China if your gay. They also have tons of what they call boy love movies. Additionally, there's gay bars in every major city in China. In fact, Chengdu is known as the gay capital of China.
The issues are they do have are, you can't show kissing in those movies and they don't allow parades anymore. Also, no legal protections for discrimination, though all discrimination laws apply. So while you can't say they fired you because your gay, you still have protections that they can't randomly fire you without cause and being gay isn't a cause.
Here's an article about what I am talking about.
https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/family-relationships/article/3114633/lgbtq-people-china-picture-mixed-global-report-finds
Not terrible, also, not great. That kind of described China as a whole though so take that how you will.
Edit
Here's a list of boy love films if your interested.
https://trakt.tv/users/133dle/lists/rainbow-cn-china-boys-love-bl-gay?sort=released%2Casc
Surprisingly they're more popular with women as opposed to men. Not entirely sure why.
BL has always been targeted towards women, it's not exactly an indicator for queer support.
It is isn't it? I actually talked about that further in the thread. What's up with that? I'm actually curious about it since well I'm not LGBTQ+ but I'm always interested in understanding more. It's strange to me that women would prefer lesbian porn films as well as queer films. It doesn't make sense to me, but statistically that's what we find. I'd love for someone to explain this to me.
Edit: Also yes, I can agree it doesn't show queer support, but it does show ambivalence. After all, it's the government censors that are letting it through, and they aren't LGBTQ+. So, they absolutely do not understand it's targeted at women.