An advocacy group that served as a safe space for the LGBTQ community in Beijing has been shut down as part of a government pressure campaign against gay rights groups.
In foreign countries, the US will often try to hide their spy operations behind things like gay nightclubs, so that the governments of these nations crack down on them, and the US can sell of their "rainbow imperialism" to their people and so that gay people become increasingly marginalized (and increasingly easy to radicalise.)
That would be my guess, that this place was shut down because their owners were found to be in bed with the yanks or something like that.
In foreign countries, the US will often try to hide their spy operations behind things like gay nightclubs, so that the governments of these nations crack down on them, and the US can sell of their "rainbow imperialism" to their people and so that gay people become increasingly marginalized (and increasingly easy to radicalise.)
That would be my guess, that this place was shut down because their owners were found to be in bed with the yanks or something like that.
Apparently during the Cold War, the GDR was concerned about just such a possibility, so they opened a whole bunch of state-funded gay bars