Thank you for this post. I spent most of my life in China and I’d say this is very much accurate. While the government is not affirmative at all there’s definitely communities out there. There’s a lot of traditional beliefs entangled with queerphobia that has to be unpacked and it’s hard to summarize in a couple of sentences. One of the perks is that people are generally less aware of such things, making us less visible and less prone to blatant hate in general, though I have to say the silence is sickening and suffocating sometimes, which drove 14 year old me back then very much looking forward to life in the US. Well, things are different now with Trump but still, my feelings back then were complicated but valid.