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27 Apr 2020

Is the PRC changing its LGBT views?

Tmall campaigns and Weibo posts give us a hint.

The PRC has world’s largest LGBT community and rich Chinese who spend on luxury fashion brands are more than happy see advertising reflecting positive images of those citizens.
The PRC has a long track record of repressing LGBT discourse, and with it, fashion brands’ opportunities to address them in their campaigns.  
However, at the start of 2020, sparks of hopes ignited across different aspects of Chinese society, sending a positive signal for a more progressive future. On December 20th of last year, for the first time in China’s modern history, a government law official spoke about having received a large number of petitions to include “legalisation of same-sex marriage” into the Civil Code during a press conference.
Then, on January 8, a Lunar New Year-themed campaign from Alibaba’s Tmall emerged as a top-trending search across social media. The campaign portrayed a gay couple joining a family reunion. At first, they are greeted with shock from the older parents but are eventually warmly accepted at the dinner table. The campaign received a site-wide applause on the microblogging site Weibo, as it was rare for a major company such as Alibaba to normalise a same-sex couple in a family context.  In the same month, another campaign from the gay social app Blued aired on the internet, drawing more than 45.7 million views on Weibo. The increasing visibility of LGBT topics at the start of 2020 presents a sharp contrast to the country’s rigid silence on them during the past decades.
There is hope!
To read more, click here

The PRC has world’s largest LGBT community and rich Chinese who spend on luxury fashion brands are more than happy see advertising reflecting positive images of those citizens.

The PRC has a long track record of repressing LGBT discourse, and with it, fashion brands’ opportunities to address them in their campaigns.  
However, at the start of 2020, sparks of hopes ignited across different aspects of Chinese society, sending a positive signal for a more progressive future. On December 20th of last year, for the first time in China’s modern history, a government law official spoke about having received a large number of petitions to include “legalisation of same-sex marriage” into the Civil Code during a press conference.

Then, on January 8, a Lunar New Year-themed campaign from Alibaba’s Tmall emerged as a top-trending search across social media. The campaign portrayed a gay couple joining a family reunion. At first, they are greeted with shock from the older parents but are eventually warmly accepted at the dinner table. The campaign received a site-wide applause on the microblogging site Weibo, as it was rare for a major company such as Alibaba to normalise a same-sex couple in a family context.  In the same month, another campaign from the gay social app Blued aired on the internet, drawing more than 45.7 million views on Weibo. The increasing visibility of LGBT topics at the start of 2020 presents a sharp contrast to the country’s rigid silence on them during the past decades.

There is hope!

To read more, click here!

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Reader's Comments

1. 2020-04-28 04:00  
Decades ago, U.S. corporations discovered the massive purchasing power of the LGBT community and began targeting ads towards us. This increasing visibility across media helped move LGBT equality forward. The same thing will eventually happen in China and other parts of the world. While I'd love to believe that open-mindedness will increase LGBT acceptance. it's really profit dollars that will do it. Whatever the reason may be, I'll be happy to see it happen.
2. 2020-06-09 23:13  
What made China unique was the one-child policy that was enforced for decades, and that led to the births of many more males than females. Though the chile policy has changed, the ration of men to women in much of the adult population remains uneven, making a gay relationship a more likely possibility for many.

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