Chinese gay dating apps are reportedly being forced to “de-label”: no gay positioning, no role labels, no profile signatures, no partner-seeking hints, and no rainbow (LGBT) avatars. This is not neutrality—it is the erasure of gay visibility.

In China's social media, anti-Jew, anti-LGBT and national socialism are combined.

On May 17, a Chinese civil group posted for #IDAHOBIT2026. The text was a public-awareness post. Yet words like #LGBTQIA+ “homophobia,” “government,” “democracy,” and even embassy names were replaced by asterisks. This is what queers look like under censorship: not debated, but silently erased.

Homosexuality is not illegal in China. But there are no broad anti-discrimination protections for LGBTQ people, and media censorship has targeted “abnormal sexual relationships.” The result is legal ambiguity plus social vulnerability.

Other posts used pseudo-legal language, repeatedly invoking vague “relevant regulations” to claim that only men and women can constitute love, or warning gay people not to “influence minors.” Gay men are portrayed as threats to children, public order, and “normal men.”

Some images imitated authoritarian propaganda: banners using state-security phrasing such as “severe crackdown” against so-called homosexual “criminal forces,” even falsely attributing authority to an “Anti-Homosexuality Office.” Gay people were described as “vile”, openly being dehumanized.

The screenshots include explicit anti-gay violence: users discuss luring someone out to beat him, followed by comments saying it was “done already.” This is not abstract opinion. It is real-world harm being normalized.

We are from China. We are gays. We were being intimidated and attacked. On Baidu Tieba, large active forums existed with names that translate as “Exterminate Gays” or “China Anti-Gay.” These were not tiny fringe pages: some had tens of thousands of followers and hundreds of thousands of posts.

He was intrusive, disrespectful, and openly demeaning toward your relationship. Setting a firm boundary and refusing to entertain his misogyny and homophobia was fully justified. He left because you stood your ground.

Homosexuality is not an illness, so it does not need a cure. Modern medicine and psychology do not classify it as a disorder. Mockery and so-called “treatment” are prejudice, not evidence, and they only spread stigma and harm.

LGBT people do not harm society—bigotry does. Sex and gender are more complex than a false binary. Trans inclusion does not cause assault; assault is already illegal, and fear is not evidence. Calling prejudice “normal” does not make it right, and exclusion is nothing to celebrate.