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First of its kind queer museum in San Francisco Chinatown amplifies Chinese LGBTQ+ artists
Xiangqi Chen’s one-room museum shows fewer than a dozen works and aims to make Chinese LGBTQ+ artists more visible.
Xiangqi Chen is an activist and artist involved in LGBTQ+ rights who faces punishment for this activism in some places.
Chen founded the first Chinese queer art museum, the OUT Museum, which officially opened with a rainbow-ribbon cutting ceremony at the end of May in San Francisco Chinatown.
Chen has received strong emotional support from Chinese immigrants in California, both queer and straight, since the museum's opening.
In China, LGBTQ+ individuals often live discreetly due to discriminatory policies.