China cuts the young women who write gay lobby

The woman wrote, before revealing the excerpts of the day she says she was arrested because of her publication, “I warned against talking about it.”

“I will never forget that – accompanying the car in full view of the car, and I continued to humiliate the nakedness to examine it in front of the strangers, put a jacket for pictures, sit on the chair, shake fear, and bomb my heart.”

The handle, which is putting Annan Youngfvvy, is among at least in recent months that have participated in the accounts of the Chinese social media platform from her arrest for publishing the exciting imagination of gay. The authors also narrated their experiences, dozens of lawyers provided free assistance.

A lawyer defending the BBC in at least 30 books, almost all in their twenties, have been arrested throughout the country since February. Many of the guarantee or awaiting trial, but some are still in reservation. Another lawyer told the BBC that many shareholders had been called to interrogation.

They have published their work in the city of Heitang Literature, a platform hosted by Taiwan known as “Danmei”, a type of love for children and exciting imagination.

Think about it as a gay version of Fifty Shades of Gray: BDSM relationship that leads to happiness at all. This is the repeated cup, through historical or fictional settings or science fiction. Over the years, she cultivated follow -up followers, especially among young Chinese women.

These authors are accused of violating the China Pornography Law “to produce and distribute outrageous materials. The book can be imprisoned for a profit for more than 10 years.

The law targets an explicit description of gay sex or other sexual deviations. ” Photography of two different sexes is often more space – the work of the acclaimed Chinese authors, including Nobel Moa Yan, who have graphical sexual scenes, but are widely available.

Despite the prison the authors of two different sexes in China, observers say this type is subject to a much lower control. Erotica, which is more decomposing, appears to be more disturbing salads. Volunteers in the Hightang Book Book of BBC said until they interrogated some readers.

Those who reported their arrest refused an interview, for fear of repercussions. The police in the northwestern city of Lanzo, who were accused of leading this campaign, did not respond to the BBC.

On the Internet, the campaign launched a discussion – a rare response against the law.

“Is sex really something that should be ashamed of?” One of the Weibo users asked, on the pretext that the anti -language laws in China are far from touch. Another wrote that women do not obtain what is obscene because they do not control the narration. Even legal scholars have expressed concern that only 5,000 views of anything are considered “obscene” qualified as a “criminal distribution”, which reduces the tape to arrest the creators.

Beijing has made insufficient enough that the discussions have disappeared: #Haitangauthorsarrested attracted more than 30 million views on Weibo before censorship. The jobs that provide legal advice disappeared. The story of a prominent Chinese news site was dropped. Book accounts, some handles, also disappear.

After she managed to put an Anan Yongfu virus publication, I deleted it and wrote another, thanked the supporters and admitted that writing it had violated the law. Then she deleted her handle.

Before this last post, she wrote: “I was always the good girl in my father’s eyes. But that day, I only brought them to shame. They will not hold their heads again.”

These women have long worked in the shadows in China, where homosexuality and excitement are deaf. Now the police investigations are concluded, they face brutal social consequences such as this legitimacy.

“At that moment, all I felt is shame,” a writer translated the Weibo handle into “The world is a huge psychological hospital.” She said that the police took them out of the college – and witnessed her study colleagues as they followed her to discuss her residence.

“I won the word of my money with a word on a keyboard. But as soon as you go south, it was as if any of this matters. People treated me as if I had earned money without working for that.”

Other police wrote Latifa, and advised her to speak to a lawyer and restore her “illegal profits” to reduce her punishment. “I am only 20 years old. Very young, and I have destroyed my life very early.”

A third said: “I never imagined that one day it would come when every word I wrote once returns to chase me.”

One of the authors who wrote Danmei’s novels for 20 years has not been interrogated, but it says the campaign will not prevent it. “This is the way I find happiness. I cannot give up the communications I made with society.”

Inspired by the Japanese boys manga, Danmei has emerged as an online subcontinent in the 1990s. He became very successful, as some novels appeared in the best -selling book lists.

In 2021, 60 of them were chosen to adapt films and television. According to what was reported, the IP was sold, the most expensive 40 million yuan ($ 5.6 million; 4.1 million pounds). Some of the largest Chinese stars, such as Xiao Chan and Wang Yipo, began their career on broadcasting shows based on Danmi’s novels.

In short, it is the rebellious ownership of pop culture- very uncommon and cannot be ignored, very controversial to honor it.

It is a signature of Heitang, which, in mandin, is a flower blooming in every shades of pink.

It is appropriate, Haitang and Danmei flourished as unique areas of unique, although it focuses on male heroes. In a culture in which the sexual desire of females is routinely exposed, Danmei carries an encrypted and creative port – a space that a woman can write about the desire of females in other women.

This is exactly what Danmei is “sabotage”, says Dr. Liang J. , Which is studying digital sociology at the University of London. It allows a woman to “separate from sexual facts”, which they often are associated with marriage and motherhood.

For example, in Danmei stories, men can become pregnant and be comfortable while exposure – on the blatant contrast of unequal relationships often many Chinese women in real life.

“Danmi prevents me from thinking about all these potential dangers in relationships in romance of two different sexes,” explains one of the writer who was active in Danmi’s world for a decade ago.

Danmei novels are not without critics, because some have extremist and violent scenes. “As a parent, how many of us can accept our children who read accounts like this, not to mention their writing?” Weibo user asked one.

The authors’ era was also a source of anxiety: A handful of those with whom BBC spoke to all of them began reading and writing the gay luggage before they reached the age of 18, some of them from the age of 11.

“This is a problem for all adult content because China does not restrict the content by age.

But Danmei in particular has been increasingly attacking in the past decade as Beijing launched a series of campaigns to “clean” the Internet. In 2018, Danmei was imprisoned for 10 years to sell 7000 copies of her book entitled Occupy.

With the low marriage and childbirth rates, China’s leader Xi Jinping explained the renewal of youth, and therefore the government scrutiny in Danmi has increased, says Dr. J.

“The Chinese government wants to promote traditional family values ​​and admire Danmi’s novels as a worker in making women less willing to have children,” Dr. Ji explains.

This is the second wave of collective arrests in less than a year – late last year, about 50 of the book of Hitang. A famous author has been imprisoned for about 1.85 million yuan for about five years.

Al -Qaman is similar, according to a lawyer who represented some of the defendants last year, “but this time, even those who have a slight participation they spared.”

A lawyer who provides free legal advice said that more than 150 people requested consultations in just two days. Many of those who contact them have not yet been charged – they were terrified of this possibility.

“This is classic fishing abroad,” says a lawyer who has composed a “practical guide” to help Haileang book. The term refers to its transgression by the local police – that is called in Lancho the book in different places, it can be said that it is outside their jurisdiction.

I mentioned many pocket payment to travel to Lanchou. One published that 2000 yuan obtained two books on Haitang paid for the trip.

Also last year, all arrests by the police in Jixi Province in East China were.

This debt local governments have previously done to earn revenues through fines, sometimes forced a warning from the central government. The lawyer says that electronic crimes are especially exposed to this, “as long as they claim that the local reader has spoiled.”

Danmi’s book knows that tolerance can be volatile. For this reason they deny censorship with metaphors. “Making dinner” means sex. The “kitchen tool” is a symbol of male genital organs.

However, the last repression surprised them. “A phone call broke my dreams”, how the writer described the call from the police.

They accused the police of searching their phones without a judicial order. They said that their crime was evaluated by adding the opinions of each chapter – a method that they argued was misleading, because it is likely to exaggerate readers.

Another author of Danmei published: “I have written on Hitang for years, with a handful of readers only. Then, those stories that have been ignored more than 300,000 clicks have become 4000 yuan in the royalties sitting in my account as evidence of my crime.”

It is difficult to know if this shows the end of their career on Hitang.

“If I can return, I still choose to write. I will continue to write,” wrote the Sijin De Sijin handle.

“At the present time, I can only hope that the law will see beyond the words on the page – and see the girl who exceeded meals to save money, the girl who sold her hair to buy a pen, and the girl who thought her mind could be carved through fate. I hope that all of us give us a fair opportunity.”

Additional reports by Grace Tsi in Hong Kong