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Bathed in a pink spotlight, the cabaret singer at Phuket’s ZAG bar lip-syncs the top notes of a popular Mandarin love song, delighting the crowd of gay Chinese tourists who have escaped judgement at home for sexual freedom in Thailand.
While the song, “The Moon Represents My Heart”, is a hit with the patrons, the transgender singer is just the warm up act.
“We’re waiting for the go-go boys!” says one Chinese reveller at ZAG, one of several clubs squeezed into “Paradise Complex” — the epicentre of the raucous gay nightlife scene on the party-hard island.
With an estimated LGBTQ population of 70 million, China has the world’s third-largest “pink market” after Europe and the United States.
Yet in China being openly gay is still fraught with difficulties.
Dressing a certain way or public displays of affection can draw stares and lead to family turmoil. Some Chinese parents have even brought gay children to “conversion” clinics for treatment.
Homosexuality was classified as a mental illness in China until 2001 and a crime until 1997, and authorities have arrested gay rights activists.
That makes Thailand, renowned for its more permissive attitude towards sexuality, an alluring holiday option for gay Chinese looking to cut loose away from family pressures and censorious eyes.
While LGBTQ Thais often still face discrimination in the workplace, the kingdom’s gay party scene is famously loud and proud, known for late-night clubbing and cabaret shows in Bangkok and along its coastal resorts.
“Every night, around half our customers are from China. They used to come in the past, but this year suddenly there were a lot, so we added Chinese songs,” Bon Nadech, the owner of ZAG bar told AFP.
“Chinese tourists are great customers. They’re polite and curious about Thailand,” said a waiter at the nearby MO2 club.
Chinese travel companies are also crowding in to tap the market.
Nearly a dozen agents offer trips to Thailand for gay tourists, with ads showing travellers partying on yachts decorated with rainbow streamers and balloons.
The relaxed atmopshere offers a rush of liberation for those who make the trip.
“I have a lot of friends who don’t feel safe in China and feel they need to hide. In Thailand they don’t have to worry,” said Ji Chengfeng, a 37-year-old entrepreneur from Beijing, who was visiting Phuket on one of his frequent holidays in the kingdom.
China sends more tourists to Thailand than any other country, with cheap air links and no visa requirements funnelling visitors to the kingdom.
Thailand has already welcomed 6.6 million Chinese tourists in 2017 — up from a total of 2.7 million five years ago — bringing a flood of cash into the key sector.
In comparison, less than 700,000 Americans and a little over 500,000 French citizens visited Thailand so far this year.
The economic potential of LGBTQ travelers in particular is increasingly catching the eyes of tourist operators worldwide.
Many are not parents and therefore have a greater disposable income, plus are better able to travel outside peak holiday periods.
In recent years, on the heels of gay marriage court rulings, tourist boards in the more permissive corners of the world are promoting their countries as same-sex wedding and honeymoon destinations.
In 2013, the Tourism Authority of Thailand’s office in New York launched its campaign, “Go Thai Be Free”, to actively welcome LGBTQ travelers.
While same-sex marriage is not officially recognised under Thai law, it is a widely accepted practice and Buddhist monks often preside over such ceremonies.
But it remains strictly illegal in China, where a court last year ruled against two men seeking to marry.
Several Thai entertainers, tour guides and service staff, told AFP they were studying Mandarin to improve communication with Chinese visitors.
“We get more business if we offer tours in Mandarin,” said Lalani of Phuket Sunshine Tours, who gave her first name because she was not authorized to speak with media.
As the night wears on at ZAG, the atmosphere becomes increasingly freewheeling, with lesbian, bisexual, transgender, gay and straight partygoers downing shots together and posing for photos with the bare-chested go-go boys.
“I want to find some way to live here. It’s so fun and open. Men can hold hands on the street and no one will care,” one young web developer from Shanghai told AFP, declining to give his name to protect his identity.
“In China if you do that people will make a big deal out of it. They will take photos of you,” he said, before leaping onto stage for a dance.
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Published: 15:30 BST, 13 December 2013 | Updated: 01:45 BST, 14 December 2013
Covered in bruises, his skin red and smarting, this sobbing eight-year-old has just been stripped to his underwear, tied to a tree and beaten by his father.
If that wasn’t shocking enough, many in the sizeable crowd that gathered around applauded as the father lashed him with a stick.
The boy from Nanchong in Sichuan province, south-west China, skipped classes after receiving the equivalent of £10 from his father.
He had also reportedly failed to return on time earlier in the week. After driving around the city in search of his son, the father caught him near a market and exacted his punishment.
A crowd gathers at the scene where a father has stripped his nine-year-old son and tied him to a tree before viciously beating him. The man said his son was being punished for skipping school and failing to return home
The picture taker, Lin Gang, said that the temperature was only 5C when the all but naked child was tied to the tree and beaten.
Corporal punishment of the kind meted out to the Nanchong boy is lawful in China, although there are legal provisions to prevent excessive child abuse.
The law even goes to far as to allow authorities to order parents to subject their children to 'strict discipline' if they are guilty of serious misbehaviour.
Traditionally, corporal punishment is common among Chinese families, although attitudes are beginning to change in the country.
In a letter to the South China Morning Post , Melody Koo, a pupil at Marknoll Fathers' School, wrote: 'Many traditional Chinese families use corporal punishment to teach their children.
'They believe that once the pain is over, the lesson will be engraved on the child's mind and the mistake will not be repeated. It's an easy way of "teaching" children right from wrong.'
According to a 2010 study cited by the Global Initiative to End Corporal Punishment, around half of of girls and three in five boys in China had experienced 'mild' corporal punishment in the past month.
That included spanking hitting, or slapping with a bare hand; hitting or slapping on the hand, arm, or leg; shaking; or hitting with an object, according to the study published in the International Journal of Paediatrics.
A further 10 per cent of girls and 15 per cent of boys reported experiencing severe corporal punishment, which included hitting or slapping on the face, head, or ears or repeated beating with an implement.
Corporal punishment is common among traditional Chinese families, and lawful in the country. A recent study found half of girls and three fifths of boys had been subjected to mild corporal punishment at home
This case from Nanchong undoubtedly falls into that latter category.
According to the father, his son had been absent from school for several days without his knowledge, and the boy didn't even come back home the previous evening.
In the morning, the father saw his son wandering the street. The boy tried to run, but his father caught him and beat him.
With onlookers' interference and persuasion, the father soon untied his son and took him away.
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