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Beijing Queer Film Festival is cancelled at the last minute · PRIDE Daily

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  Speaker 3: Hi there, I'm Kev McGrath. Coming up, two cretinous anti-queer constables. First, though,
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  Speaker 3: Beijing queer film festival's been cancelled at the last minute,
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  Speaker 3: we think because of police harassment. The 10-day event was
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  Speaker 3: due to start on Friday, but instead, organisers announced the
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  Speaker 3: whole thing was off. It's believed they've been targeted relentlessly
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  Speaker 3: by authorities, intimidating them in phone calls. China's government sees
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  Speaker 3: anything LGBTQ plus as a threat to its hold over society.
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  Speaker 3: The film festival started 25 years ago, and as Dr
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  Speaker 3: Hongwei Bao, a professor in Chinese studies, explains, things felt
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  Speaker 3: more progressive back then.
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  Speaker 4: Homosexuality was decriminalised in 1997 and was removed from China's
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  Speaker 4: classification of mental disorder in 2001. And then there was
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  Speaker 4: a lot of optimism that the situation is going to
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  Speaker 4: get better for gender, sexual minorities. And now it seems
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  Speaker 4: that situation has got worse.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks to Manchester China Institute, also falling by the wayside,
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  Speaker 3: numerous other queer events there, plus advocacy and support organisations
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  Speaker 3: and LGBTQ plus social media channels and dating apps. The
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  Speaker 3: country hasn't had a Pride event for six years now.
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  Speaker 3: Pride Daily. Next, two policemen accused of calling a transgender
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  Speaker 3: woman ugly and a pig have gone on trial in Spain.
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  Speaker 3: One of the officers filmed the whole thing back in
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  Speaker 3: May 2020 in a patrol car in Benidorm, then shared
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  Speaker 3: it to a WhatsApp group and it ultimately went viral.
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  Speaker 3: Amongst other things, the woman was told, you are even
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  Speaker 3: uglier during the day, you are horrible, and get lost,
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  Speaker 3: you pig. The officers are up on hate crime charges
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  Speaker 3: and could be jailed. And there's an unintended upside to
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  Speaker 3: Russia's ban on the non-existent international LGBT movement. Posting anything
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  Speaker 3: with but a whiff of queerness online can see you
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  Speaker 3: fined or jailed, but the country's media zone and news
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  Speaker 3: outlets notice there's more and more cases of homophobia getting
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  Speaker 3: caught up in this. Among them, Father Grigory Zwolinski, who
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  Speaker 3: was slating an archbishop for being too much of an
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  Speaker 3: LGBTQ plus ally, The Catholic clown's conviction cost him his
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  Speaker 3: residency permit and after 24 years in Russia, he was
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  Speaker 3: forced to return to Poland. If you tell your friends
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