Chinese Police Target Writers of Gay Erotica with Prison Terms and Heavy Fines

Dozens of LGBTQ+ erotica writers arrested in Chinese national crackdown

A comic book promoting tolerance for young gay men produced by Lee Yiu-chung (boy) and Tracy Lai Wing-yan in 2008 (Picture: Getty) Dozens of writers of LGBTQ+ erotica have been arrested in China in a bid to crack down on ‘pornographic’ content, it has been reported. The People’s Republic (PRC) has a zero-tolerance approach to what it sees as vulgar or illegal content and has removed thousands of website in past crackdowns to ‘purify’ its intern…

10 Arrested for Writing Gay Erotica in China as Part of Nationwide Crackdown

10 Gay Erotic Fanfiction Writers Arrested in China Amid Porn Crackdown

A task force is reportedly targeting authors who publish on the Taiwan-based website Haiting Literature.

China is arresting writers for posting fanfiction and gay erotica

Dozens of Chinese writers have been arrested since June as part of an ongoing crackdown against pornographic content, according to multiple news and social media reports.More than 50 writers have been detained in the province of Anhui by a “special task force” assigned with targeting online distributors of erotic fiction, Radio Free Asia reported, based on several accounts from newspapers in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Tawain, as well as social me…

Chinese police target writers of gay erotica with prison terms and heavy fines

The crackdown in Anhui has triggered debates about possible abuses of power and whether the law itself is too heavy-handed.

Dozens of writers of LGBTQ+ erotica arrested in China in bid to crack down on ‘pornographic’ content

Dozens of writers of LGBTQ+ erotica have been arrested in China in a bid to crack down on ‘pornographic’ content, media in Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan have reported. Censors have now targeted as many as 50 authors in the eastern province of Anhui as part of a special operation, which will tackle what it […]