The formal modern word for "homosexuality/homosexual(s)" is tongxinglian ( 同性戀 tóngxìngliàn 'same-sex relations/love') or tongxinglian zhe ( 同性戀者 tóngxìngliàn zhě, homosexual people). Other, less literary, terms have included "male trend" ( 男風 nánfēng), "allied brothers" ( 香火兄弟 xiānghuǒ xiōngdì), and "the passion of Longyang" ( 龍陽癖 lóngyángpǐ), referencing a homoerotic anecdote about Lord Long Yang in the Warring States period. She dawdles, not daring to move closer, / Afraid he might compare her with leftover peach. An example of the latter term appears in a 6th-century poem by Liu Xiaozhuo: Traditional terms for homosexuality included " the passion of the cut sleeve" ( Chinese: 斷袖之癖 pinyin: duànxiù zhī pǐ), and "the divided peach" ( Chinese: 分桃 pinyin: fēntáo). 7 Slang in contemporary Chinese gay culture.4 Gay, lesbian and queer culture in contemporary mainland China.Yet, in 2021 Weibo censored the accounts of numerous LGBT student organizations without any prior warning. There was a step forward for the China LGBT community after the Weibo incident in April 2018, where the public outcry over the platform for banning homosexual content led the platform to withdraw the decision. 18% of men surveyed answered they had come out to their families, while around 80% were reluctant due to family pressure. A third of the men surveyed, as well as 9% of the women surveyed said they were in the closet about their sexuality. In a survey by the organization WorkForLGBT of 18,650 lesbians, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people, 3% of males and 6% of females surveyed described themselves as "completely out". įor most of the 20th century, homosexual sex was banned in the People's Republic of China until it was legalized in 1997. On the other hand, Gulik's study argued that the Mongol Yuan dynasty introduced a more ascetic attitude to sexuality in general. Opposition to homosexuality, according to the study by Hinsch, did not become firmly established in China until the 19th and 20th centuries through the Westernization efforts of the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China. Several early Chinese emperors are speculated to have had homosexual relationships accompanied by heterosexual ones. According to one study, for some time after the fall of the Han Dynasty, homosexuality was widely accepted in China but this has been disputed. Homosexuality has been documented in China since ancient times.