From personal experience having half my family in China and being Bi and having dated a man, the older generation think its weird and icky and doesn't make sense. My cousins who are my age or younger couldn't give less of a fuck who i date or fuck. China is going through a similar change as much of the west, social change is happening globally right now for LGBTQ+ people.

It is sensible if you're not being systematically oppressed. Pride parades under capitalism lead to their complete comodification. Ads of brands everywhere. Brands changing logo colors for a month. Yet the queer situations isn't improving. It seems to be actually getting worse in the west. :/

Yup I agree with this 100%.

There are Westerners that view the work of LGBT peoples in Asia as conservative or self-hating because they portray our work for acceptance and equal rights as short-sighted or fulfilling heteronormative ideals.

But the reality is that importing individualistic conceptions of LGBT expression, in it’s especially liberal forms like homonationalism - is harmful as it actually creates disunity and actually lays the foundation for further capitalist intrusion of our social lives.

To speak in a more local sense, gender diverse expression and non-hetero sexualities in Southeast Asian history were more “progressive” and prevalent here than in European societies up until “direct” colonization.

For many people here, “progressive” isn’t necessarily a march to the future, but a look to the past for the practices and cultures that were destroyed with the invasion of Eurocentric Capitalism.

In fact here in Malaysia, transgender people were fully integrated into society and gender reassignment surgeries up were allowed until 1983 where a fatwa discouraged the practice.

Indeed, LGBT westerners need not be so critical about Global South LGBT struggles when their only achievement is pink imperialism.

Pride is a reaction and fight against police state repression of LGBT (particularly trans people). If they're not being repressed in China, I would understand not needing/caring to have a Pride parade.

"so you don't have a month defined for your capitalist overlords to being signaled by the media and reactionaries, to be forgotten the rest of the year? that's tiranny!"

The Philippines is run by conservative degenerates so being LGBT here in my country is not that great to say the least even though a big chunk tolerates it.