I'm amazed this work has gotten as far as it has under the CCP which jails LGBT authors on the regular, it might actually have something to do with the Lin's mother not being vilified and tossed to the curb like many western stories would depict. Social Harmony and all that.
Huh, the majority of the world doesn't live in a society where you can be openly LGBTQ without extreme consequences.
Contrary to the belief here, no, CCP doesn't jail LGBT authors on regular just for writing gay stuff.
The ones you usually heard about being jailed are usually being jailed for two main reasons, either illegally publishing books/comics or illegally distrubuting sexual content. The issue if of course law like this will disproportionately target LGBT authors more, because it is a lot harder for them to publish. The same for sex stuff, the tolerance for LGBT story is lower since you have the "gay stuff" on top of the hardcore porn. But if is just porn I believe even recently a few straight hentai artists also got the hammer too.
However, if the authors choose to write/publish LGBT stories on the big publisher sites and commission from there instead of self publish then they won't face any legal issues at all. Of course for these publishers these stories will have be quite censored and kept vanilla enough. All the NSFW stuff or uncensored stuff will just be published on the authors' personal blogs instead and kept "unofficial".
The Chinese government and society both discriminate against LGBT heavily, but since there is still a lot of money to be made from gay content they have chosen to keep an open market for it where they can keep their eyes on. Money talks.
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