What’s It Like Being a Gay Man in China - Chinese Interview

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[@ramadhuwaraha397]

You made him feel comfortable in sharing his story. It is a well done interview. I hope he doesn’t face any backlash. I applaud him for being brave and true to himself.

[@salvadorsanchez5057]

i love that your videos are not just good for learning, but also interesting on their own

[@MishMashi]

As someone who's going to study in china next year and is also part of the community, this was an incredibly helpful video, 谢谢你们俩！

[@grRock26]

Yeah, the same for me. If you remember, could you, please come back and give us your story?

[@MishMashi]

​@@grRock26 ooh, I can try! 😭 If anyone finds this after July 2026 and I still haven't posted an update, please reply to remind me

[@aprillen]

@@MishMashi leaving a comment because I'm also very curious about this!

[@LaMadameWang]

my university in Beijing is so gay, there aren't that many boys anyway.... so the girls are all complaining 😂 The boys are easy to spot and sometimes boys will walk hand in hand, but the girls are harder to spot If someone could give me a clue, I'd be grateful!

[@grRock26]

@LaMadameWang I get you. Since I started to study Chinese culture and watch Thai shows, I swear my gaydar is broken kkkkkkk looking for clues too

[@ShuoshuoChinese]

Feel free to adjust the speed to 0.75 if you think it’s too fast❤

[@gagaxueguzheng]

No, it's fine. The only thing is that he seems to sit in a room with a lot of echo but the speed is fine and you both speak very standard and clear Mandarin.

[@Checkmate1138]

You are too kind 😂 ❤️

[@MarshaBaldwin24]

謝謝老師你用你大的平台跟學生分享這個重要的議題。雖然一些粉絲可能不接受同性戀或是恐同的、但是不用擔心。妳的粉絲大部分都是很開分還有是酷兒/LGBTQ。我們都支持妳！妳又棒又厲害！🙌🏾✨

[@ShuoshuoChinese]

谢谢你 ：）

[@grRock26]

This video is so important! Thank you so much for it. I really dont know if you realized the meaning for some one in the community. Thanks, really thanks!

[@seksityathakarn9721]

这个视频，就是，让我学到了很多新的，就是，词。谢谢！

[@ShuoshuoChinese]

哈哈哈哈哈哈哈，“就是”用得很好！

[@Jakikannskxnyl]

好开心～ 我的前任是四川人 我们都是女生 因为距离分手了但我们还是是朋友

[@StratosFair]

That was a wonderful conversation, thank you for sharing !

[@Speechbound]

Such a thoughtful and compassionate interview! It's amazing how you create such a safe and welcoming space for open conversation. This was a beautiful way to shed light on important topics while making him feel truly comfortable being himself. ❤

[@yulesea6391]

As a lesbian girl who is studing chinese and wants to move to China someday, I'm truly happy you made this video. If you have any lesbian or saphic friend that would accept to do this kind of video,please do it haha. Anyways, thank you so much and keep doing your great job as always. 非常谢谢！

[@p1nkdolly]

hey!! 💗 i don’t know if you’ll see this but i’m also a lesbian who’s studying chinese and is going to study in china in like a month :) we could add each other somewhere if you’d like ^^

[@ramadhuwaraha397]

@@p1nkdolly

[@SharpNaif]

I think we can extend Pride Month a few days for this video...

[@ShuoshuoChinese]

Aww your comment made my day 🥰

[@igormen2001]

No.

[@junocrows4354]

i love videos that discuss different interesting topics like this, thank you for making it!

[@clankb2o5]

谢谢你! 给我们看你的立场意义重大 🍀

[@Camilshka]

A great video and topic, really interesting - thank you both!

[@pattyb9445]

Thank you for this great and interesting interview!❤

[@guchaigue]

Informative and wonderful as always!!

[@LizafromWhere]

Great. More interviews please! I like Mandarin Corner's interviews but somehow yours is much easier for shaddowing. And i love the slowed down for emphasis words. So clever and more cool modern girl. Well done!

[@Irina_Dybets_许诺]

谢谢，聊得特别有意思，我还以为中国的社会对同性恋者的态度更差。我很高兴有那么多人能接受

[@yong1960]

年轻人

[@elizabethfreed472]

Thank you! As a 🏳️‍🌈者 myself, it's so good to hear from others about what the culture is like and the direction it's going there. Thank you for giving a voice!

[@karitzelle]

This was incredibly interesting, 谢谢！❤

[@jameslaux4094]

Thanks for making this video! Excellent!

[@veganinchina]

Love these conversation videos! 😄

[@nicholasyenson5849]

非常有意思,謝謝老師!

[@kaia8264]

Wow! It's really cool! Thank you for the video!

[@KawanoMino21]

New subscriber here, I really loved this! Hope you do more interviews in the future, I learned a lot.

[@aprillen]

Something I'm curious about: I've heard that attitudes in China, especially outside of the cities and among the older generations, can be pretty conservative and that families might not accept their children being gay. But I've also heard that there is very little hate crime against gay people, unlike other parts of the world where a lot of the homophobic attitudes are rooted in religion. Is this true? Or if it is, is it only true in certain cities?

[@cpc9563]

I am not gay, but I am Chinese. I can assure you that gay people will absolutely not have to worry about violence just because they're gay. Violence, in general, is abhorred in Confucian culture. I'd go so far as to say there wouldn't be any out-and-out discrimination (as in not being allowed into a restaurant), but like I said, I'm not gay, so I don't want to speak on gay people's behalf. It's just that I've never seen anything like that. But definitely no violence.

[@aprillen]

@@cpc9563 Thank you for replying!

[@M783hsjsksk]

I am a gay who comes out. Fortunately, my friends support me very much, and my classmates and colleagues do not exclude me. What's better is that my parents also accepted it

[@aprillen]

@@M783hsjsksk Thank you for sharing your story! I'm glad to hear that your friends and family support you!

[@M783hsjsksk]

@@aprillen Thank you. But to be honest, China is not as open as Europe. Some parents still want a grandchild. Sometimes they will force their children to marry a girl and get a grandchild.

[@yaoguai]

thank you Mingji for sharing your story

[@Sugar-no1yx]

Intro/outro音乐很合适！

[@polly_monbebe]

This was very helpful and interesting! 说实话 I didn't expect that acceptance of lgbt+ community is growing in China. I'm really happy to hear that!

[@kileyslife7541]

Because of the beginning, I think quite highly of Thailand now. At least in the sense of the LGBTQ community🏳️‍🌈

[@rith6103]

在泰国附近柬埔寨的老师 我是在柬埔寨 来柬埔寨马老师😍🙏

[@hassanscottodierno9284]

Do you think his parents actually know? In Malaysia it tends to be don’t ask don’t tell

[@myriamseers5359]

非常有趣，谢谢！你能解释一下代孕的问题吗？在中国，这是不是一个受审查的话题？

[@ShuoshuoChinese]

不能说“受审查”，但目前代孕在中国是不合法的。

[@differentcc]

哇！为6月的泰国点赞！哈哈哈！明年6月见！

[@ShuoshuoChinese]

好的，明年六月见！

[@johnoconnor5015]

Taiwan legalized same-sex marriage on May 24, 2019.

[@cr9090-x2y]

哈哈哈哈

[@jacobhopkins7084]

Didn't Taiwan legalize same sex marriage a couple years ago?

[@veganariel541]

Does DY mean artifical insemination as well as do it yourself?

[@Flyingsearat]

泰国很漂亮 ！我想去旅游那儿

[@xandranicholai7301]

❤️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

[@ReneMongeau1]

I feel exactly the same like a real macho in Canada. The real masculinity is prohibited here. I feel it is a process and need to make the path for next generation. I understand him perfectly. It has a lack of testosterones, you know, but we represent and inspire.

[@seksityathakarn9721]

都是渣渣的😂

[@truongnhattan]

you should add pinyin

[@gagaxueguzheng]

No, for intermediate students, it is better not to have pinyin. As soon as there is pinyin, people stop trying to read the characters.

[@zoukai0000]

蒙上脸，别跳，尤其在网络上

[@sbrgm]

I think the whole pride month is a very bad thing for society. Don't get me wrong. It's okay that everybody should have the freedom to live as he or she wants to. But as a society, the ideals have to be kept up. Otherwise the society will ruin itself. And that's what I loved in China, where I lived 10 years ago. At that time, I went accidentally in a pub in Shanghai, in which a gay porn was running at the TVs. It was not a big deal, we left the pub again after one beer. And I thought that this level of tolerance is exactly the right one. But: the "promotion" of any thing other than the ideal of husband and wife is bad. We realize this now in Germany. And I'm afraid, that China will take a bad course - the more they would follow the Western examples, the worse it will get.

[@Angelofnine]

I'm sorry, but you are wrong

[@sbrgm]

@@Angelofnine Well, the history confirms me. The Romans, the Greek, the US, whole Europe, Germany... the moral decline (I'm talking about a society, not about indiviuals!) comes before its fall. And that's the reason why China was able to rise that fast out of the ashes so to say. Prove me history-wise that I'm wrong.

[@nilosuenes4158]

Alemania, regresando poco a poco a esas malas costumbres de la primera mitad del siglo XX

[@gagaxueguzheng]

​@@sbrgm "History confirms"? I don't think gays brought down those empires... Where did you get that theory from? That's like saying slavery brought down Rome because they also had that. Why do you think it was homosexuality? I'm also German and you seem to live in another country. Some people are going crazy with their promotion of homosexuality. But so are people on the right of the political spectrum promoting weird and extreme things. Or women activists. Whenever there is a problem, you'll have some who become extreme in their demands and propaganda. Just ignore them and be a normal person like you seem to be.

[@teetotee]

Gay porn? Holy cow that's horrible

[@AdamHuzella]

ShuoShuo, pardon me to argue. China is quite open, they liberalized gay marrige even before Thailand, that's a factual mistake. They were the first in SE-Asia, if we count them there.

[@unoreversecard1o1o1o]

China doesn’t recognise same sex marriage what are you talking about

[@AdamHuzella]

@@unoreversecard1o1o1o I think this is incorrect. Taiwan province is a part of China and they recognise it. What's now?

[@Flyingsearat]

@@AdamHuzellaNot all of china is taiwan . 😭 ?? The creator of this video is also from mainland china , so when they say “ chinese society “ they mean mainland china

[@unoreversecard1o1o1o]

@@AdamHuzella Taiwan is not a province of China, only the CCP believes so, and the CCP prohibited same sex marriage lmao. A good example is how Chinese companies can't explicitly show gay characters in media of any kind, or it gets filtered

[@AdamHuzella]

@@Flyingsearat I know exactly what she meant I was just pointing out that she wasn't exactly right. Not all China is Taiwan, but all Taiwan is China. So if the question is: Does China recognise gay marriage? The answer cannot be no.

[@MrMuzo]

good reason for stop subs.

[@carcassonnerayonne4272]

nobody cares bro

[@MrMuzo]

@@carcassonnerayonne4272 i care

[@Flyingsearat]

Oh no !! Mr muzo unsubbed !! What will we ever do !! 😢😢 One of shuoshuo’s 200+k subs !!

[@monakhedr5367]

very bad topic u are helping to spread this disgusting ideas I really loved ur videos 😞

[@Samisntavailable_]

Quick tell me where is the bad topic at? It’s literally trying to get to know them in their shoes.