China's Homophobic Policemen:
Why Won't they Leave the Gay Boys Alone?
reports from the inside

Though I left China four months ago, I keep up fairly regular communication with the gay community there. So it was disturbing to learn that China's police in the past few days have been making efforts to stop gay people from organizing China's first gay cultural festival in Beijing. Reuters writes:

The event was originally booked to take place at the "798 Factory" art colony in the Dashanzi area of Beijing. But on Wednesday, December 14, two days before the opening, the Beijing Public Security Bureau banned the organizers from using the "798 Factory" area. The organizing committee, some of whose members reported police surveillance, decided to move the festival to a private establishment, the On/Off bar. About 3 p.m. on Friday, just before the start of activities, around a dozen uniformed police, accompanied by plainclothesmen, raided the bar and shut down the event.

In Shanghai last night, police officers disrupted activities in the city's newest gay bar. They were seen harassing dancing patrons. As with Stonewall in the 1960s, the patrons harassed them back. As far as I know from my sources, no one threw any high heels.

Why can't the Chinese police leave gay people alone? My opinion is that most of the men in uniform are excited about being in gay bars. Following orders? Perhaps. But who issues the orders? Some sad man with internalized homophobia or the fear that his son is gay.

Homosexuality is evolution's solution to overpopulation. To deny that sexuality is to allow the dominanating hetero-normative worldview free reign--dominion--over the earth. That's wrong.

This is not the way to construct, as Jiang Zemin said, "a well-off society in an all-round way with Chinese socialist characteristics." Here's a Chinese person who knows the way.

Come on boys in uniform. Come out, come out, wherever you are! We don't have time for your shenanigans, unless you're going to dance!