Gay People Are Hunted Down and Beaten in a Country Once a Refuge

For Africans passing by, it was as if the grim blur of their daily reality came into sudden, gruesome focus: here was an Indian man beating a bleeding African child.

A thousand gays—many of them more willing to come out for a party than they’d been to come out for campaign work—dressed formally in suits and ties despite the South Florida weather, now stood stunned and tearful, looking up at the screens that told them that most of their neighbors loathed them.

These communities were suppressed and erased by the British Empire and its harmful views on gender identity and sexuality. But the damage done by the legacy of homophobia and transphobia introduced by British colonialism doesn’t only live in the past. There are 64 countries around the world that still criminalise homosexuality, and many of them are

But Christians and queers both represent fringe communities in China, and they are more likely to flourish in a place like Chengdu, far from the nation’s political center. Sometimes, people jokingly refer to the city as “Gaydu.”

one. Most of the victims in the city were gay men, of course. Kevin, who is gay, was active in the movement to