This is a really timely piece, after the Chinese government's recent banning of "feminine men" in media. Stuff like this always makes me cry, because how lovely a way is this to fight bigotry. I am in awe
When I was a young male and insecure I'd feel alienated by these things, I'd feel appalled in a way because deep down it made me question things within myself. Nowdays I'm secure enough to know that I don't have any bicurious bones in me, but I also accept and can partake in such art without prejudice. It's quite sad how deep down it's peoples personal issues that makes them somehow feel the need to intervene in how others live their lives. When in truth, as long as it doesn't hurt anyone, let people be what they are as long as it makes them happy. I hope they [the young Chinese] won't get to crushed by their government, expression of self is necessary to live a happy life.
@JIM DIM Dude shut up, even if that was the case *HIS FEELINGS ARE STILL VALID IN THIS MOMENT*. Don't fucking tell him what he is or isn't. Let him just be comfortable in his own journey. And that's coming from someone in the LGBTQIA+ Community.
我们国家有这种精神才会真正繁荣。精神上的繁荣是无法用金钱和高楼大厦代替的。 ENG: Our country will only truly prosper when we have this kind of spirit. Spiritual prosperity is not replaceable with money or tall buildings.
@@fryingpancakes8445 I think the policy is not only very unkind to marginalized people, but also heavily ignorant of the places from which the CCP draws their supposedly superior morals. In this case, it actually dates back to European and American imperialism during the Century of Humiliation (between First Opium War and end of WW2). Christian missionaries influenced Chinese society, which used to be much more tolerant to homosexuality and male femininity, into thinking that such things were immoral. The CCP, which soon took power from the KMT over mainland China after WW2, has always claimed to fight against imperialism, but this is one of the issues it has ironically sided with imperialists on since the very beginning. By now, the CCP, and even just Chinese society in general, are only anti-imperialist in name. They have not only fallen to the influences of capitalism, white supremacism, and Christian morality, but China has even begun trying to establish itself as an imperialist world power. Therefore, for everything I've explained above, I think that what they claim about modern LGBTQ+ movement being "western influence" is an utterly hypocritical statement.
@@AquaHeart Ancient China back then was also rather imperialistic in its approach, just with more culture, but yes, it's culture does not discriminate against homosexuality and male femininity, as it equated lust for the same sex and lust for the different sex as under the sins of lust, without distinguishing one another.
Black ballroom culture has reached China, wow. Black people may be at the bottom of the barrel in other areas but we are truly the inaugurators of mainstream/pop culture and this often goes unnoticed no credit is given.
The society is indeed trending more conservative these days, but the underground culture in China has been booming for decades, often at best when the mainstream is most conservative and restricted. You’ll also be surprised to see the variety of underground scenes if you know where to find them. Some people automatically assume Chinese gov will punish these people, but there is a difference between “not promoting sth” and “banning sth entirely” in Chinese. The gov most definitely knew this club, they just “kept one eye open and one eye closed”. But of course, only tolerance is not enough… The true success is when clubs like this are no longer underground.
isnt it ironic that the first 'drag' queens were found in operas and plays throughout China and Europe where women werent allowed to in these industry's centuries ago yet the lbgtq is still an underground culture in China
@@Shermar this was common in Shakespeare plays where a young boy would play a remake because female were not allowed to perform. And in Japan, the first geishas were male called taikomochi.
@@Shermar I'm Chinese and can attest to this as I've learnt this in school as part of the culture module. But it is hard finding English information on Chinese Opera history it seems. If you are interested, you can search for 男旦 (male, female opera character). But this depends heavily on the government policy, as the Chinese culture/Confucianism doesn't prohibit female acting and it's not frowned upon, (although performing in general is frowned upon as an occupation in the old days). So Baidu's encyclopedia on this says the Qing government (Manchurian government) banned male and female performing together and temporarily banned female performers all together whereas they were often the performing leads in thousands of years prior. This carried to the 1930s in Hong Kong when the mixed gender ban was lifted (Wikipedia on Cantonese Opera in the Chinese lang). So the correct statement should be women weren't allowed to perform with males on stage in China since the Qing dynasty (1600s-1900s), so female characters were often performed by male. But extending on the LGBTQ subject, the strong discrimination towards queer people really came from the West where it was thought to have been a type of sickness. There had been gay Chinese emperors. Some idioms and saying did came from them. And there had been male looking for male prostitutes and other more gender fluid acts well documented in poems and paintings. But getting married to the same sex goes against Confucianism, so there's that. It conflicts with the idea of "continuation of the family blood line" and "passing on your work/occupation to your son".
@@Shermar understandable, I don’t think it rlly think it matters who did it first because it existed differently in every culture. Though ofc the black and brown community is the pioneer of modern drag. The word Drag is derived from those Shakespeare plays though.
@@Shermar Well unfortunately, that reply was quite rude as well. I'm just telling my personal experience in learning this matter, and everything I've said below is research and you can verify this by Google Translating Chinese pages and looking for sources from the encyclopedia sites for the source literature. Yes, the statements are cited from books and articles. There's a limit on how many words a person is willing to put into a TH-cam comment and I've done what I was willing at the time. If you are interested, I've already given you a foreign search term and what objectives to look for. That was the point of my comment.
@@Shermar I don’t understand the need to be rude in our interaction since I never disrespected you in our convo. You simply asked the source of the original comment and I decided to elaborate on what I know related to it, I wasn’t disproving your point. I’m Ghanian and I know there’s a history of cross dressers in our culture but it doesnt mean we were the first. Its frivolous and childish to find who did it first because phenomenons can exist simultaneously and unrelatedly. The only thing we can go off now is modern drag. Which we know the word came from Shakespeare’s plays and the black and brown people in NY gave a rise to it.
How could this not bring u joy? I am sitting here with a huge smile. The universality of ballroom and vogue is just mind-blowing. The longevity. And I love all the English words bc of the genre's origins. It's such an homage
As a Chinese gay man just migrant to US before covid, I was crying from the beginning to end. I never in my life thought a gay communities like this in real life in China mainland can be real, a DL but also a safe haven for the gays honestly makes my heart warm and sad at same time because we always have to fight in the dark on the cracks and crumbs. It’s always the videos like this reminds me how much more I have to fight against the odds no matter where I am
So amazing to watch another ethnicity & culture, embrace such a huge phenomenon that pushed Voguing in the gay community to an all time high in the 80's-& 90's here in America!....
I thought cultural appropriation was bad? Has that changed? Will you support them now that CCP has outlawed effeminate men? Will you get them out of the camps they are going to be sent to or just leave them there like the Muslims?
@@slickrick2420 I'm as anti-Trump as they come but I've never heard anyone accuse him of bringing Muslims to China and ditching them there. Can you elaborate? Sounds ridiculous.
with stuff like this they only really crack down when the government is taking a look at the city like when a ccp official is in town you will see all the prostitution just stop for a week or two and ramp back up when he left again
I have to agree with BaZi when he said that they might have to go deeper underground but they are here to stay as long as people feel free here. LGBT community has always been resilient when faced with adversity. Tbh…looks they are going along the same track as we were here in the US. I wish them all the best.
@@dotdotdotdotdotdotdottod like we know there are gays in China obviously our rainbow reach is vast but I think most of us still think gays in china are forced to be closeted and don’t have public spaces but this video made me so happy 😊
@@ThePeteSandoval Well many are still closeted because many middle-aged and older people (especially parents) are very conservative. But they’re still well connected online and in underground bars etc. Hopefully when Xi Jinping and his entourage dies in 20-30years, new progressive people can rule this beautiful country and let the people be themselves. China‘s youth is very different even when they can’t say it loudly, and that gives me lots of hope :)
As a member of LGBTQ Community myself in China, I've always been forcing myself to act like a "normal person", even though I work in music industry which is often considered more open with sexuality. I've never shown my true self to anyone cuz I'm not brave enough. I couldn't hold my tears watching this video. (btw, I'm a DJ/Producer living in Beijing)
th-cam.com/video/kWLfue6Nrq0/w-d-xo.html yeah not for long this video was probably taken in Taiwan wherw it is allowed, Taiwan is an independent nation that china claims as its own and canells anyone who says it isn't, Taiwan was never part of China and never will be, Mainland China even Censored male actors wearing earings and and removes all movies with Actors that identify as Gay, Ooh cant wait for the chinese bots and Wumao(50Cent Army) to be here, youll see them in a sec
@@captainprototype755 I’m fine with asking better human right for minorities, cuz CCP doesn’t even care about Han, let along the four other races. But I can’t support the idea of calling XinJiang Turkistan. It’s like Crimea belonging to Ukraine. Democracy is a wonderful thing but it cannot be applied in terms of territorial dispute
Being queer and watching this with period hormones still flowing is dangerous. I literally started crying as soon as I started watching. This is so amazing.
So awesome! These types of scenes move culture forward. They are the brave pioneers of society. No government should ever be allowed to strangle a persons life and artistic expressions. In the end, society is only as free as the most margenilized people among them. Allow the gays to gather and all you get is art and spectacle, not hate and violence like other groups.
@Shadis Nightmare does it matter if someone did it first just cuase micro organisms ate first doesnt mean we aren't allowed to eat, you talk all about acceptance but you extend none of that Acceptance
Yo these people aren't 'gays' they're just like you and me. Labels are the problem, although i'm sure heterosexual people would love to be called 'normies' 😂
@Shadis Nightmare "Pale skinned Eurasians hate dark skinned people but love to steal their culture at every opportunity." Doing some racial stereotyping to denounce racism. How forward thinking.
@@illstuffamattresswithyou5657 This isn't about authenticity of some specific subculture, this is about going against the current and being different in one of the most totalitarian countries on earth.
Thanks but we don't need your paranoia. We DEAL with our government daily. The queer & other alternative, underground communities KNOW what to do, how to slip into the cracks. Now y'all deal with yours, you hear. We thank VICE for showing the world what modern China is, as most westerners seem to want to continue to think of China as just rice fields, polluted factory towns & concentration camps, deplorably.
I have been conservative minded of gender based expectations my entire live and I will probably never change as I enjoy it. Over time i have come to understand how inconsiderate I am. The way I live my life is to structured and disciplined and it breeds harsh criticism of others sense I have such a tight grip on my self and can’t find anything to criticize that I’m not already working on ,nor can others. Even the conservative men around me tell me to chill out and loosen up as I kill all the chill and fun in any environment with my harsh criticisms and rigid ideology that won’t even let people who aren’t below 15% body fat eat sugar. The point is I have realized that this world of self expression should be allowed to flourish on its own even if it does not live long, if not people like me will kill it and drive human culture and expression into a grey place that I’m not autistic enough to think people will want to join me in.
Well that's a very cool level of self awareness you are reaching. I can only hope you manage to find your very own way to express yourself, one that will allow you to loosen that grip when you want to and on your terms in a manner that makes you happy. We don' t need understanding or love as long as we get freedom and respect. But I often found out that when people extend those last two, the first two soon follow. Sorry if i wasn't very clear, english is not my first language.
@Pan-European Slavic Novorossiyan Ultranationalist You will have to elaborate on renaissance being from conservative thought as from my understanding it introduced new ideas and brought old ones into the modern era. Kind of like swing music. Old does not mean conservative. At first I did not see this as adding to culture, it seemed more like of a colorful splat on the wall that few would enjoy and im trying to not kill people fun as much as I usually do. After looking at the way people dress and dance in this drag ,ballroom fusion im not so sure if they have nothing to add, I have to think about it. And let’s not be dishonest here, American music (manly rap) has taken the world by storm and as much as I dislike it, I can not deny the usage rates. Our movies and celebrities are love by people from first-third world countries. Even though our infrastructure is graded a c at best by the civil Society of engineers people still look up to the idea of coming to New York and Washington.
@Pan-European Slavic Novorossiyan Ultranationalist The greatest minds of the renaissance were queer: Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Shakepeare, Montaigne, Corelli... As for the classical era, you should really have a look into sexuality in ancient Greece, this might blow your mind...
Doubt these kind of activities are approved by the communist peoples party. And with China now changing their stances these kids are going to get genocided soon enough sadly.
So the ballroom scene is at the frontier of the LGBTQ culture in China, and I think that’s awesome cuz ballroom is about liberation. I don’t know if this is cultural appropriation or not, but credit must be given to the Black community for creating spaces where queerness can be celebrated.
It seems to me that this is being done with a huge amount of love and respect for the original scene. I could be wrong, but I think it's important to embrace inspiration and imitation that comes from that place of sheer love and joy for a beautiful thing
I wouldn't call this appropriation...the people in charge seem to to be knowledgable and aware, not to mention that Willi Ninja's dream was to spread ballroom across the globe!
For anyone wondering, these people are going to be fine, the government generally does not interfere with the LGBTQ community. One of China’s most popular media personalities is Jin Xing, who is openly trans and hosts many TV shows that are literally produced by the government. She was classically trained in ballet by the military dance academy. She is married, adopted three children and is one of the biggest celebrities in China, trans or not.
Just letting you know, the zigzags in your username are a nazi symbol, you should probably remove them if you dont want to cause any misunderstandings, it's the symbol for the SS
It’s just amazing what Black people have done for this Earth. What would y’all have done if it weren’t for Black creations? An underground ballroom scene in China. Wow.
Right? No one doubts the contributions of Shakespeare or sweats the fact that he was white, but there is so much pushback against acknowledging the overwhelming enormity that is the contribution of Black Americans (and diaspora Black folk of every nation as well as the many people of Africa.) I can't say I don't understand it, because racist gonna racist, but it's still fucking stupid.
I love how the influence is coming full circle! Asian martial arts inspired the hand performance and acrobatics of vogue, African American LGBTQ+ communities created and pioneered a revolutionary art and culture to combat alienation and oppression, and now China’s underground LGBTQ+ scene is directly inspired by ballroom culture
@@atlf3357 What? Asians martial artist didn’t inspire vogueing. Stop inserting people who had nothing to do with it. Stop appropriating. This is, was, and will always be a black created art form. Hand and wrist movements did I not come from Asian martial artist. These are indicative of the dance style of our culture with maybe some ballet. So stop.
@@Orbt_ I clearly said the hand performance and acrobatics aspect, not vogue as a whole. Before Willi Ninja, voguing was editorial and posing heavy, lacking the nunchuck and tai-chi esque movements, dramatic kicks and dynamics that Willi picked up from martial arts. Willi was black himself, so this is in no way discrediting black people.
@ShutYourEyes AndOpenYourMouth to be fair, there is a lot of subjectivity that goes into gymnastics and figure skating, most obviously at the level of individual judges, but also in terms of the collective judgment of those who decide what technical elements should be given the most value and delegated the most points... and that can change from one year to the next. True, it's hard to see what discrete elements of voguing would lend themselves to this kind of codification (not that I would actually know), but to me, codification is anathema to queer culture. One aspect of ball culture that I find interesting is how it meshes the competitive with the communal, though it's never confused which of those two is more important. I still like the idea of a ballroom "Olympics" if that meant a coming together and sharing of queer aesthetics from across the world. (Sorry if that is all a bit overly verbose. I had a few too many stims. X-D )
This makes me so happy, especially in light of last week's news about the government cracking down even harder on anyone gender non-conforming. These people are awesome.
Costumes are fabulous! I hope they can remain as free as they are right now and that they don't suffer a crack-down like in Russia. Cheers from the USA! 🌹
@@captainprototype755 Sis you are not there how you even made all these up? Imagination? I happened to be there and so are my friends, you know what? It is IN F SHANGHAI!
@@keli9388 where in Shanghai looks to me like Taiwan, Shanghai has waay more pollution, ans ive taught english in Taiwan, Thas Taiwan, Might be Mainland Taiwan but its Taiwan
@@captainprototype755 This is why geography illiterate westerners who can't differentiate Taiwan and Shanghai should stay far away from territorial disputes in Asia.
@@usedsocks6810 didnt watcht the video to see it was in Shanghai, all i know is the free independent nation and Countrh of Taiwan is the first asain country to legalize Homosexuality and China tries to remove it and wipe it out of culture by censoring it
There’re wouldn’t be any “underground” either without the government’s okaying it in China. The “underground” is a necessary adjective in a report about China.
@@outsidewell6932 the best way to get around it is bribery. As long as you gave them a big money, then they will just close their eyes or not care about underground thing.
Good to see a more nuanced video about China, but more importantly about life and culture in China beyond the headlines/current events. We forget that there are all types of folk living enriched lives there, beyond the homogenous horde that the media represents to us in the West.
China knew to make political changes and allow things like more personal expressions that an economic revolution needed to occur first… what happened in 1989 Tiananmen square was a clash between the USSR Gorbachev supporters that believed political reforms should come before economic reforms. Deng opposed this as he knew… economic reforms needed to come first and that’s why they opposed it then… but I knew I would see things like this event in China eventually because even he said… the idea is… you can’t truly give people choices if there are no choices. I didn’t understand then but I understand now.. and I can see so many people believe in the illusion of choice that “freedom and democracy” blindly promises Events and expressionism like this will be more and more common place as China became more developed
I just feel bad though that China's government banned effeminate men on TV and told broadcasters. Still life as part of LGBTQ+ is a struggle for acceptance and to be love unconditionally.
watched rupaul, watched pose netflix, i don't get it why would one go through all that trouble, but, the final outcome, i only can appreciate the art side of it. Some came out beautiful prop, and some really spark ideas for my concept art. And to learn and realizing wow, it does exist today - ok, cool. And watching this....... many may not get it, how even you give score even.... still end of the day..... very artsy. Its like watching cosplayers and that's where i feel erm hmm... common ground indeed. Oh and what surprise me was...... ok, so madonna the reason why vogue was so popular perhaps.... next.... fashion show have this kinda dance and people enjoy it.... ow, again... from ballroom HAHHAHAHA see.... its art.... meant to produce and inspire other art forms.
I had to keep pausing to absorb all those beautiful, fabulous faces. I believe this is yet another data point helping prove theory that queer people are hot everywhere. Then again, I am biased. X-D
fantabulous vlog showing how far CN become, not only talk the talk like the West, but walk the walk show the world how it has indeed moving forward across the board.
What concerns me more, is that if this garners the attention of their govt... what will happen to them? Especially in light of the recent Draconian rule against the community? Please be safe and take care, my lgbtq+ brothers, sisters and siblings ♥
fortunately its not a rule, just media guidelines from state regulators. The push against feminine men will only really affect mainstream movies and tv for the most part and its not so clear cut, its not a law or anything and the guidelines will change, its just that the media regulators are mostly older chinese with old ideas about gender roles.Luckily LGBT are safe, and a trans person won a lawsuit against work discrimination recently so things are looking up.
You know most anti - LGBT sentiment in the world comes from religion right? And China is not very....religious? The video clearly tells you there are gay dating apps with millions of users....
@@markfung1 this is in Taiwan, the CCP(China) scencors even guys wearing earings on TV, and is making it illegal to be Queer, only extremist religious people are against gays,im Christian and not against gays, but every cumminist state ever has been anti gay and super racist, what everyone acuses religion of
@@captainprototype755 .....Where did I say religions in general are against LGBQ? I said anti-LGBT sentiments largely have religious roots. That's just a simple fact. Even in the US it is the religious states that seek to limit LTBG rights...
The reporter is so cute 😍 This story warmed my soul, I love to see the resilience of them lgbtq+ community everywhere in the world. We are so beautiful and I can't wait for the day that all of us are able to be who we truly are out in the open.
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This is a really timely piece, after the Chinese government's recent banning of "feminine men" in media. Stuff like this always makes me cry, because how lovely a way is this to fight bigotry. I am in awe
I'm at work tearing up watching this.
Obviously this horrible for the youth.
@@Whitejesselink what is?
Lmao…China has a ban on feminine men? 😂😂
China the only country who will survive the test of time
Love from America to all my gay brothers and sisters in China! May your lives be full of love, peace and acceptance!
It’s in Shanghai bro🤣
@@captainprototype755 Hi captain prototype, the ophthalmology department is on your right hand, thank you, next
@@eikosai3573 fair enough XD
It’s the way that black and brown lgbtq+ culture has spread around the world
A soft truth for _their_ fragile ego's
This!
Isn't it beautiful? We've taught the whole world resilience and grace under fire.
The true blueprint. Makes me proud.
i mean asian minoritys exsist in america too that participated in voguing with the queer scene in the us too. but i could be wrong
When I was a young male and insecure I'd feel alienated by these things, I'd feel appalled in a way because deep down it made me question things within myself. Nowdays I'm secure enough to know that I don't have any bicurious bones in me, but I also accept and can partake in such art without prejudice. It's quite sad how deep down it's peoples personal issues that makes them somehow feel the need to intervene in how others live their lives. When in truth, as long as it doesn't hurt anyone, let people be what they are as long as it makes them happy.
I hope they [the young Chinese] won't get to crushed by their government, expression of self is necessary to live a happy life.
@JIM DIM You're doing exactly what their speaking against
@JIM DIM Dude shut up, even if that was the case *HIS FEELINGS ARE STILL VALID IN THIS MOMENT*. Don't fucking tell him what he is or isn't. Let him just be comfortable in his own journey. And that's coming from someone in the LGBTQIA+ Community.
Yes you can be feminine and be straight i feel like straight men feel they always have to be masculine which is annoying
我们国家有这种精神才会真正繁荣。精神上的繁荣是无法用金钱和高楼大厦代替的。
ENG: Our country will only truly prosper when we have this kind of spirit. Spiritual prosperity is not replaceable with money or tall buildings.
What's your take on the recent policy on "fighting against male feminization and other immoral trends in media"?
@@fryingpancakes8445 I think the policy is not only very unkind to marginalized people, but also heavily ignorant of the places from which the CCP draws their supposedly superior morals. In this case, it actually dates back to European and American imperialism during the Century of Humiliation (between First Opium War and end of WW2). Christian missionaries influenced Chinese society, which used to be much more tolerant to homosexuality and male femininity, into thinking that such things were immoral. The CCP, which soon took power from the KMT over mainland China after WW2, has always claimed to fight against imperialism, but this is one of the issues it has ironically sided with imperialists on since the very beginning.
By now, the CCP, and even just Chinese society in general, are only anti-imperialist in name. They have not only fallen to the influences of capitalism, white supremacism, and Christian morality, but China has even begun trying to establish itself as an imperialist world power. Therefore, for everything I've explained above, I think that what they claim about modern LGBTQ+ movement being "western influence" is an utterly hypocritical statement.
@@AquaHeart Ancient China back then was also rather imperialistic in its approach, just with more culture, but yes, it's culture does not discriminate against homosexuality and male femininity, as it equated lust for the same sex and lust for the different sex as under the sins of lust, without distinguishing one another.
谎言!
@@AquaHeart 得了吧你。你们男同性恋是最歧视娘炮的。一堆0对这个新闻都笑开花了吧。
As a Black and Asian queer person from NYC, where the first vogue balls started, I am in awe at how much our culture has grown and expanded.
Well Black people created it. It shouldn’t be a surprise that what we do influences the whole world.
@@Orbt_ True dat!
Asian where
Black ballroom culture has reached China, wow. Black people may be at the bottom of the barrel in other areas but we are truly the inaugurators of mainstream/pop culture and this often goes unnoticed no credit is given.
The society is indeed trending more conservative these days, but the underground culture in China has been booming for decades, often at best when the mainstream is most conservative and restricted. You’ll also be surprised to see the variety of underground scenes if you know where to find them.
Some people automatically assume Chinese gov will punish these people, but there is a difference between “not promoting sth” and “banning sth entirely” in Chinese. The gov most definitely knew this club, they just “kept one eye open and one eye closed”.
But of course, only tolerance is not enough… The true success is when clubs like this are no longer underground.
Unless when they going political... they will really ban it like valun dafa.
@@sn5301679 this might sound crazy to you but cults usually get banned.
@@yotub5979 in china, its doesnt need be a cult.
Even a game or chat forum can be banned when start talking about politics.
isnt it ironic that the first 'drag' queens were found in operas and plays throughout China and Europe where women werent allowed to in these industry's centuries ago yet the lbgtq is still an underground culture in China
@@Shermar this was common in Shakespeare plays where a young boy would play a remake because female were not allowed to perform. And in Japan, the first geishas were male called taikomochi.
@@Shermar I'm Chinese and can attest to this as I've learnt this in school as part of the culture module. But it is hard finding English information on Chinese Opera history it seems. If you are interested, you can search for 男旦 (male, female opera character). But this depends heavily on the government policy, as the Chinese culture/Confucianism doesn't prohibit female acting and it's not frowned upon, (although performing in general is frowned upon as an occupation in the old days).
So Baidu's encyclopedia on this says the Qing government (Manchurian government) banned male and female performing together and temporarily banned female performers all together whereas they were often the performing leads in thousands of years prior. This carried to the 1930s in Hong Kong when the mixed gender ban was lifted (Wikipedia on Cantonese Opera in the Chinese lang).
So the correct statement should be women weren't allowed to perform with males on stage in China since the Qing dynasty (1600s-1900s), so female characters were often performed by male.
But extending on the LGBTQ subject, the strong discrimination towards queer people really came from the West where it was thought to have been a type of sickness. There had been gay Chinese emperors. Some idioms and saying did came from them. And there had been male looking for male prostitutes and other more gender fluid acts well documented in poems and paintings. But getting married to the same sex goes against Confucianism, so there's that. It conflicts with the idea of "continuation of the family blood line" and "passing on your work/occupation to your son".
@@Shermar understandable, I don’t think it rlly think it matters who did it first because it existed differently in every culture. Though ofc the black and brown community is the pioneer of modern drag. The word Drag is derived from those Shakespeare plays though.
@@Shermar Well unfortunately, that reply was quite rude as well. I'm just telling my personal experience in learning this matter, and everything I've said below is research and you can verify this by Google Translating Chinese pages and looking for sources from the encyclopedia sites for the source literature. Yes, the statements are cited from books and articles.
There's a limit on how many words a person is willing to put into a TH-cam comment and I've done what I was willing at the time. If you are interested, I've already given you a foreign search term and what objectives to look for. That was the point of my comment.
@@Shermar I don’t understand the need to be rude in our interaction since I never disrespected you in our convo. You simply asked the source of the original comment and I decided to elaborate on what I know related to it, I wasn’t disproving your point. I’m Ghanian and I know there’s a history of cross dressers in our culture but it doesnt mean we were the first. Its frivolous and childish to find who did it first because phenomenons can exist simultaneously and unrelatedly. The only thing we can go off now is modern drag. Which we know the word came from Shakespeare’s plays and the black and brown people in NY gave a rise to it.
How could this not bring u joy? I am sitting here with a huge smile. The universality of ballroom and vogue is just mind-blowing. The longevity. And I love all the English words bc of the genre's origins. It's such an homage
Black culture really goes everywhere! I love us! Our freedom is what will free others!
Thank you for your cool gifts.
From the bottom of our hearts.
YES AND THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU from the Philippine Ballroom scene ❤❤❤
As a Chinese gay man just migrant to US before covid, I was crying from the beginning to end. I never in my life thought a gay communities like this in real life in China mainland can be real, a DL but also a safe haven for the gays honestly makes my heart warm and sad at same time because we always have to fight in the dark on the cracks and crumbs. It’s always the videos like this reminds me how much more I have to fight against the odds no matter where I am
much love dear❤❤❤❤
@@a.h.i267 seconded ❤❤❤
Willi Ninja would be so proud to see his art in China.
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Yesssss
Yes😥
He would be in the front row. Ugh. RIP.
I live in Shanghai and love watching this flourish. Amazing to see how queer black culture has spread so far around the world.
I hope you get sent to a reeducation camp in Xinjiang province
@@Yothirjgdit9595 dude look at yourself, tells me everything I need to know about you
"This looks stupid without the makeup." I relate to that on a spiritual level.
So amazing to watch another ethnicity & culture, embrace such a huge phenomenon that pushed Voguing in the gay community to an all time high in the 80's-& 90's here in America!....
They had them in southern California in the mid 80's too. It was a safe spaces for everyone.
What about covid tho
I thought cultural appropriation was bad? Has that changed? Will you support them now that CCP has outlawed effeminate men? Will you get them out of the camps they are going to be sent to or just leave them there like the Muslims?
@@terintiaflavius3349 It was Trump who left the Muslims there through weakness and incompetent diplomacy.
@@slickrick2420 I'm as anti-Trump as they come but I've never heard anyone accuse him of bringing Muslims to China and ditching them there.
Can you elaborate? Sounds ridiculous.
I get the feeling this is going to be put down pretty quickly by the ccp, but it's nice to see people being themselves.
Unfortunately I think you may be right
The Shanghai scene will probably last longer than the Beijing scene.
It'll be region locked. Thank goodness for VPN's.
with stuff like this they only really crack down when the government is taking a look at the city like when a ccp official is in town you will see all the prostitution just stop for a week or two and ramp back up when he left again
I have to agree with BaZi when he said that they might have to go deeper underground but they are here to stay as long as people feel free here. LGBT community has always been resilient when faced with adversity. Tbh…looks they are going along the same track as we were here in the US. I wish them all the best.
I wish nothing but the very best for these young performers!!
As someone who is ignorant to foreign culture I didn’t even think China had an lgbtqia+ scene. This was not long enough! I need more of this. ❤️❤️❤️
Same! I'm shocked!
i meqn gays arw everywhwre but yee
@@dotdotdotdotdotdotdottod like we know there are gays in China obviously our rainbow reach is vast but I think most of us still think gays in china are forced to be closeted and don’t have public spaces but this video made me so happy 😊
@@ThePeteSandoval well the ccp made that clear years ago🤧
@@ThePeteSandoval Well many are still closeted because many middle-aged and older people (especially parents) are very conservative. But they’re still well connected online and in underground bars etc. Hopefully when Xi Jinping and his entourage dies in 20-30years, new progressive people can rule this beautiful country and let the people be themselves. China‘s youth is very different even when they can’t say it loudly, and that gives me lots of hope :)
Ball Culture and Drag aren't exactly the same, though there is some overlap.
Who tf cares about technicalities mate? Oh that's right everyone who wasn't invited to the 'party' 😂
@@stevenbaker7025 People who create and belong to communities care.
@@chrisvalleqatsi Yeah you can care all you want, but the concepts aren't property so anyone can alter them at will.
@@chrisvalleqatsi indeed.
@@stevenbaker7025 youre really annoying arent you
As a member of LGBTQ Community myself in China, I've always been forcing myself to act like a "normal person", even though I work in music industry which is often considered more open with sexuality. I've never shown my true self to anyone cuz I'm not brave enough. I couldn't hold my tears watching this video. (btw, I'm a DJ/Producer living in Beijing)
They look like they are having a good time. Peace to them!
You mean rest in peace? Cause Vice just killed them all
China has a gay ballroom scene for the gay youth. Well you learn something everyday.
It's underground is the point.
th-cam.com/video/kWLfue6Nrq0/w-d-xo.html yeah not for long this video was probably taken in Taiwan wherw it is allowed, Taiwan is an independent nation that china claims as its own and canells anyone who says it isn't, Taiwan was never part of China and never will be, Mainland China even Censored male actors wearing earings and and removes all movies with Actors that identify as Gay, Ooh cant wait for the chinese bots and Wumao(50Cent Army) to be here, youll see them in a sec
@VoguingShanghai damn man Love to hear how far Taiwan has Come
@@captainprototype755 Shanghai is in mainland China
@@captainprototype755 This video has absolutely nothing to do with Taiwan. Stop spamming the comments. Shanghai is part of mainland China.
Good on them, to be able to express themselves in a safe environment is wonderful.
@@captainprototype755 this is shot in shanghai, but Taiwan is the first to legalize same-sex marriage
@@mastersonogashira1796 thanks for the education man
@@captainprototype755 I’m fine with asking better human right for minorities, cuz CCP doesn’t even care about Han, let along the four other races. But I can’t support the idea of calling XinJiang Turkistan. It’s like Crimea belonging to Ukraine. Democracy is a wonderful thing but it cannot be applied in terms of territorial dispute
@@mastersonogashira1796 50 social credit points for you!
@@low_vibration U sure? cuz the first half of my comment would be -100 if not more. I’m just expressing my political view
Category is: BRAVE & STUNNING
Being queer and watching this with period hormones still flowing is dangerous. I literally started crying as soon as I started watching. This is so amazing.
So awesome! These types of scenes move culture forward. They are the brave pioneers of society. No government should ever be allowed to strangle a persons life and artistic expressions. In the end, society is only as free as the most margenilized people among them. Allow the gays to gather and all you get is art and spectacle, not hate and violence like other groups.
@Shadis Nightmare does it matter if someone did it first just cuase micro organisms ate first doesnt mean we aren't allowed to eat, you talk all about acceptance but you extend none of that Acceptance
@@captainprototype755 Correct
@Shadis Nightmare oh shut up
Yo these people aren't 'gays' they're just like you and me. Labels are the problem, although i'm sure heterosexual people would love to be called 'normies' 😂
@Shadis Nightmare
"Pale skinned Eurasians hate dark skinned people but love to steal their culture at every opportunity."
Doing some racial stereotyping to denounce racism. How forward thinking.
It was very interesting hearing about LGBT people in china. You dont hear a lot of stories about them
Black american culture in China...I'm flattered.💕
But not nearly as authentic as NYC OG Ballroom.
@@illstuffamattresswithyou5657 This isn't about authenticity of some specific subculture, this is about going against the current and being different in one of the most totalitarian countries on earth.
We love u queen!! 😍😍😍
They are obsessed with us.
@@arvinoo5881 Yup and using a Black creation and art form to do it. Black culture influences the world. No doubt.
I’m obsessed with the white rabbit bag the dancer at the end had
Right?! Me, too! 🐇
She’s a well known voguer not just in China but in Paris too her name is Vivyne Louboutin
@@tmackie1694 LOL "White Rabbit" is a famous brand of Chinese candy & she's wearing a bag that's a blown up version of it. #CULTURE
Did they agree to have this broadcast out to the world? I feel like revealing their identities could put them all at high risk
No, it Spread to US!!!!!!
@@blackmonday738 good we need it
@@blackmonday738 I’m sure the Chinese government has vpn and access to this video 💀rip
youtube is blocked in china so no?
Thanks but we don't need your paranoia. We DEAL with our government daily. The queer & other alternative, underground communities KNOW what to do, how to slip into the cracks. Now y'all deal with yours, you hear.
We thank VICE for showing the world what modern China is, as most westerners seem to want to continue to think of China as just rice fields, polluted factory towns & concentration camps, deplorably.
I have been conservative minded of gender based expectations my entire live and I will probably never change as I enjoy it. Over time i have come to understand how inconsiderate I am. The way I live my life is to structured and disciplined and it breeds harsh criticism of others sense I have such a tight grip on my self and can’t find anything to criticize that I’m not already working on ,nor can others.
Even the conservative men around me tell me to chill out and loosen up as I kill all the chill and fun in any environment with my harsh criticisms and rigid ideology that won’t even let people who aren’t below 15% body fat eat sugar.
The point is I have realized that this world of self expression should be allowed to flourish on its own even if it does not live long, if not people like me will kill it and drive human culture and expression into a grey place that I’m not autistic enough to think people will want to join me in.
Well that's a very cool level of self awareness you are reaching. I can only hope you manage to find your very own way to express yourself, one that will allow you to loosen that grip when you want to and on your terms in a manner that makes you happy.
We don' t need understanding or love as long as we get freedom and respect. But I often found out that when people extend those last two, the first two soon follow.
Sorry if i wasn't very clear, english is not my first language.
@Pan-European Slavic Novorossiyan Ultranationalist
You will have to elaborate on renaissance being from conservative thought as from my understanding it introduced new ideas and brought old ones into the modern era. Kind of like swing music. Old does not mean conservative.
At first I did not see this as adding to culture, it seemed more like of a colorful splat on the wall that few would enjoy and im trying to not kill people fun as much as I usually do.
After looking at the way people dress and dance in this drag ,ballroom fusion im not so sure if they have nothing to add, I have to think about it.
And let’s not be dishonest here, American music (manly rap) has taken the world by storm and as much as I dislike it, I can not deny the usage rates. Our movies and celebrities are love by people from first-third world countries. Even though our infrastructure is graded a c at best by the civil Society of engineers people still look up to the idea of coming to New York and Washington.
@Pan-European Slavic Novorossiyan Ultranationalist don't you ever wonder what you would look like in a frock?
@@haphappablap7684 hahaha, these fascist types have a lot of repressed stuff going on sexually! They need to put some frocks on and work it out
@Pan-European Slavic Novorossiyan Ultranationalist The greatest minds of the renaissance were queer: Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Shakepeare, Montaigne, Corelli...
As for the classical era, you should really have a look into sexuality in ancient Greece, this might blow your mind...
see how there's no kids in sight? all adults. this is a heartwarming thing to see
Sending immense love to my LGBT siblings in China. ♡
This is what black “African Americans mean when we influence the world . From culture to political movements .
Ballroom which originated from Black LGBT primarily the Black Trans imitated for better and sometimes worse throughout the world .
Doubt these kind of activities are approved by the communist peoples party. And with China now changing their stances these kids are going to get genocided soon enough sadly.
Yeah but so did and does every other culture in the world.
Literally European culture. We wuz ballroomz n gayz n shiet
I’m just a Mexican stoner trying make it out the hood by doing storytime & reaction videos on my TH-cam channel 👌👌
So the ballroom scene is at the frontier of the LGBTQ culture in China, and I think that’s awesome cuz ballroom is about liberation. I don’t know if this is cultural appropriation or not, but credit must be given to the Black community for creating spaces where queerness can be celebrated.
Cultural appropriation is a racist concept
It seems to me that this is being done with a huge amount of love and respect for the original scene. I could be wrong, but I think it's important to embrace inspiration and imitation that comes from that place of sheer love and joy for a beautiful thing
@@Catsley love or lust?
@@MamaNewGuinea you think the motivation for the Chinese ballroom scene is that they're horny for the original scene?
I wouldn't call this appropriation...the people in charge seem to to be knowledgable and aware, not to mention that Willi Ninja's dream was to spread ballroom across the globe!
Support and love from Hong Kong. It's a wonderful time for you guys to shine on the bridge.
For anyone wondering, these people are going to be fine, the government generally does not interfere with the LGBTQ community. One of China’s most popular media personalities is Jin Xing, who is openly trans and hosts many TV shows that are literally produced by the government. She was classically trained in ballet by the military dance academy. She is married, adopted three children and is one of the biggest celebrities in China, trans or not.
This kind of media is so vital to keeping the culture alive and maintaining a space for LGBTQ Chinese people
I cried a bit, this is beautiful and brave!!!!!!! FIERCE!
One sweet day the world will say, "Thanks Black America!!! For everything you've given us! We love you!!!"
Its nice to see positive comments on a video about minorities for once💀
I think most men, gay or straight, can agree that ball room is essential.
😂 deffo need ball room
Thank you vice for telling us about this
Just letting you know, the zigzags in your username are a nazi symbol, you should probably remove them if you dont want to cause any misunderstandings, it's the symbol for the SS
It’s just amazing what Black people have done for this Earth. What would y’all have done if it weren’t for Black creations? An underground ballroom scene in China. Wow.
Right? No one doubts the contributions of Shakespeare or sweats the fact that he was white, but there is so much pushback against acknowledging the overwhelming enormity that is the contribution of Black Americans (and diaspora Black folk of every nation as well as the many people of Africa.)
I can't say I don't understand it, because racist gonna racist, but it's still fucking stupid.
I love how the influence is coming full circle! Asian martial arts inspired the hand performance and acrobatics of vogue, African American LGBTQ+ communities created and pioneered a revolutionary art and culture to combat alienation and oppression, and now China’s underground LGBTQ+ scene is directly inspired by ballroom culture
@@atlf3357 What? Asians martial artist didn’t inspire vogueing. Stop inserting people who had nothing to do with it. Stop appropriating. This is, was, and will always be a black created art form. Hand and wrist movements did I not come from Asian martial artist. These are indicative of the dance style of our culture with maybe some ballet. So stop.
@@Orbt_ I clearly said the hand performance and acrobatics aspect, not vogue as a whole. Before Willi Ninja, voguing was editorial and posing heavy, lacking the nunchuck and tai-chi esque movements, dramatic kicks and dynamics that Willi picked up from martial arts. Willi was black himself, so this is in no way discrediting black people.
They need all our love and support! Long overdue. ❤🧡💛💚💙💜💗💋🤴
PLEASE DO A 30 MIN OR AN HOUR LONG EPISODE. THIS IS SOOOOOOOO INTERESTING. I'M GAGGING.
Looks funn. And this kind of special occasion gives them a moment to shine and dance and etc etc.
I love it , artist and life.
Seeing people so happy in a place where the majority want to stamp that part out of them is so beautiful
I hope to see ballroom become like the Olympics, but not but in the Olympics. For people of all countries coming together to death drop.
Like Eurovision
@@Jasperi No. I when I watched that a few times. It felt very one dimensional. I prefer my ballroom people.
to dip**
@ShutYourEyes AndOpenYourMouth to be fair, there is a lot of subjectivity that goes into gymnastics and figure skating, most obviously at the level of individual judges, but also in terms of the collective judgment of those who decide what technical elements should be given the most value and delegated the most points... and that can change from one year to the next. True, it's hard to see what discrete elements of voguing would lend themselves to this kind of codification (not that I would actually know), but to me, codification is anathema to queer culture.
One aspect of ball culture that I find interesting is how it meshes the competitive with the communal, though it's never confused which of those two is more important. I still like the idea of a ballroom "Olympics" if that meant a coming together and sharing of queer aesthetics from across the world.
(Sorry if that is all a bit overly verbose. I had a few too many stims. X-D )
YES 🙌
That white rabbit pillbox hat outfit at the very end is amazing!
Live... Work... Poseeee!
Miss Penhy, and twerk
I wish Vice would get facts straight, ballroom became popular in the 80s but it started way before then.
I hope they don’t get in trouble with the authorities for this.
All love and respect for all of my brothers, sisters, and non-gender conforming siblings from different parents across the globe.
"Paris is Burning" is a good documentary on the NY vogueing scene of the 80's.
Best movie ever ☺️
African American culture influences the world.
This makes me so happy, especially in light of last week's news about the government cracking down even harder on anyone gender non-conforming. These people are awesome.
CCP will crack down even harder now after knowing this is being shown to the world
This is amazing, fsck the haters and live your best lives you beautiful queens.
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It's funny how you have to go outta your way to call them "beautiful queens" because in reality that couldn't be further from the truth
I said this same thing to a group of welders this morning in a Saftey meeting lol. What are the odds?
@@DSPHistoricalSociety that’s you’re opinion, and you’re entitled to it, just like how we are to our opinions. You are a queen too! 🙏🏼
@@Benni777 Naw we wuz Kangz!
Costumes are fabulous! I hope they can remain as free as they are right now and that they don't suffer a crack-down like in Russia. Cheers from the USA! 🌹
Couldn't we just celebrate this moment together instead of letting your bias against China turning into hate comments here?
This video is in Taiwan not China
@@captainprototype755 Sis you are not there how you even made all these up? Imagination? I happened to be there and so are my friends, you know what? It is IN F SHANGHAI!
@@keli9388 where in Shanghai looks to me like Taiwan, Shanghai has waay more pollution, ans ive taught english in Taiwan, Thas Taiwan, Might be Mainland Taiwan but its Taiwan
@@captainprototype755 This is why geography illiterate westerners who can't differentiate Taiwan and Shanghai should stay far away from territorial disputes in Asia.
@@usedsocks6810 didnt watcht the video to see it was in Shanghai, all i know is the free independent nation and Countrh of Taiwan is the first asain country to legalize Homosexuality and China tries to remove it and wipe it out of culture by censoring it
This is a PERFECT example of intersectionality! 🙌🏻🏳️🌈
Could you explain how? Cause i don't really see any intersecting identities at play here? Its just LGBT having parties
This shouldve been longer! Loved it!
We live in a society capable of sending a car into orbit but incapable of accepting the sexual preferences of complete strangers.
The amount of people mistaking shanghai for taiwan in the comment lmao If this was in Taiwan it wouldn't be freaking underground!!!!
There’re wouldn’t be any “underground” either without the government’s okaying it in China. The “underground” is a necessary adjective in a report about China.
@@outsidewell6932 the best way to get around it is bribery. As long as you gave them a big money, then they will just close their eyes or not care about underground thing.
Good to see a more nuanced video about China, but more importantly about life and culture in China beyond the headlines/current events. We forget that there are all types of folk living enriched lives there, beyond the homogenous horde that the media represents to us in the West.
I know Willie Ninja is looking down proudly!
Great comment!💯
In the beginning of the video, that is a Chinese city? Damm, looks like something from a futuristic mlvie
China knew to make political changes and allow things like more personal expressions that an economic revolution needed to occur first… what happened in 1989 Tiananmen square was a clash between the USSR Gorbachev supporters that believed political reforms should come before economic reforms.
Deng opposed this as he knew… economic reforms needed to come first and that’s why they opposed it then… but I knew I would see things like this event in China eventually because even he said… the idea is… you can’t truly give people choices if there are no choices.
I didn’t understand then but I understand now.. and I can see so many people believe in the illusion of choice that “freedom and democracy” blindly promises
Events and expressionism like this will be more and more common place as China became more developed
I absolutely loved this!
Taiwan is not a part of China. Taiwan is its own country.
Glad these people are celebrating who they are. Let’s just hope the Chinese Government doesn’t take any hasty actions to restrict them.
they been doing it on decades
I just feel bad though that China's government banned effeminate men on TV and told broadcasters. Still life as part of LGBTQ+ is a struggle for acceptance and to be love unconditionally.
Yep, CCP are definitely going to clamp down on this...
This is beautiful. Sending love from the UK to my queer brothers and sisters in China ❤
Voguing in Shanghai sounds so fresh!
That made me cry because it is so sad and so happy.
I hope that they continue to have the freedom to express themselves. Freedom is a wonderful thing...with warts and all.
This is so beautiful and cool. Everything out of China doesn't have to negative.
Here comes the Ben Shapiro brigade to downvote this video!
Oh, Vice news is at it again.
4:44 definitely feeling his vibe 👍🏾👏🏾👌🏾
watched rupaul, watched pose netflix, i don't get it why would one go through all that trouble, but, the final outcome, i only can appreciate the art side of it. Some came out beautiful prop, and some really spark ideas for my concept art. And to learn and realizing wow, it does exist today - ok, cool. And watching this....... many may not get it, how even you give score even.... still end of the day..... very artsy. Its like watching cosplayers and that's where i feel erm hmm... common ground indeed. Oh and what surprise me was...... ok, so madonna the reason why vogue was so popular perhaps.... next.... fashion show have this kinda dance and people enjoy it.... ow, again... from ballroom HAHHAHAHA see.... its art.... meant to produce and inspire other art forms.
This is so extra I LOVE IT
That dude made a living doing something he loved
I had to keep pausing to absorb all those beautiful, fabulous faces. I believe this is yet another data point helping prove theory that queer people are hot everywhere. Then again, I am biased. X-D
fantabulous vlog showing how far CN become, not only talk the talk like the West, but walk the walk show the world how it has indeed moving forward across the board.
i love all of them 🥰 i wish only the best for them
*G A E*
@@NickariusSN bro go make some overpriced yogurt or something
Ngl bazi's face looks like uncle roger
Why is their already more dislikes then likes???
it is not.. you are lying as usual.. 7 to 6
And then i refreshed and it is still 11 to 7
and you liked your own comments b0tting as usual... 25 seconds and you have a liked and its not even true.
Yeah that is your own like lol
@@dertythegrower are you some type of bot?
Bots, probably
Probably don't wanna give these places too much attention under the Chinese government. They already banned men from being feminine, etc....
This is more drag than vogueing. I’m still happy they are expressing themselves.
I thiNk Ru PaUL would B Proud
This was very interesting ! I enjoyed watching this!
What concerns me more, is that if this garners the attention of their govt... what will happen to them? Especially in light of the recent Draconian rule against the community? Please be safe and take care, my lgbtq+ brothers, sisters and siblings ♥
fortunately its not a rule, just media guidelines from state regulators. The push against feminine men will only really affect mainstream movies and tv for the most part and its not so clear cut, its not a law or anything and the guidelines will change, its just that the media regulators are mostly older chinese with old ideas about gender roles.Luckily LGBT are safe, and a trans person won a lawsuit against work discrimination recently so things are looking up.
@@yotub5979 thank you for educating me.
I guess Netflix released [Paris is Burning] in China
this video will be part of history when China government crack down on them making it exitinct
You know most anti - LGBT sentiment in the world comes from religion right? And China is not very....religious?
The video clearly tells you there are gay dating apps with millions of users....
@@markfung1 The CCP is not fond of the LGBT.
@@markfung1 this is in Taiwan, the CCP(China) scencors even guys wearing earings on TV, and is making it illegal to be Queer, only extremist religious people are against gays,im Christian and not against gays, but every cumminist state ever has been anti gay and super racist, what everyone acuses religion of
@@ApoBeef Yet gay dating apps are legal....Define "fond"....
@@captainprototype755 .....Where did I say religions in general are against LGBQ? I said anti-LGBT sentiments largely have religious roots. That's just a simple fact. Even in the US it is the religious states that seek to limit LTBG rights...
The reporter is so cute 😍 This story warmed my soul, I love to see the resilience of them lgbtq+ community everywhere in the world. We are so beautiful and I can't wait for the day that all of us are able to be who we truly are out in the open.
I would not be surprised at all if the Chinese government uses this video to try to identify each and every person in this video.
Amid the negative news from China, it is great to see the lgbtq community continuing to pursue freedom to express themselves, that gives me hope.
It was underground until you made a documentary about it smh
This is so cool! Great job