Chinese Cultural Festival Forbidden
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The forbidding of a LGBT cultural festival in China shows that you don’t need fundamentalist religious bigots to have a homophobic social climate:
Organisers had planned to hold their festival of films, plays, exhibitions and seminars on homosexuality at one of the trendiest artistic communities in China. The venue was to be the studios and warehouses at the 798 complex of converted factory buildings in northeastern Beijing. Most of the capital’s hippest and most happening events take place among the grey concrete blocks, fashionable French bistro-style bars and industrial pipes of 798.
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