On 14 April 2018, Sina Weibo, the equivalent of Twitter in China, announced a crackdown on LGBT content, as pursuant to the China Internet Security Law and other government regulations. It was widely speculated that the organizer of this festival was under political pressure to not show the film.
In March 2018, Oscar-winning drama Call Me By Your Name has been pulled from the Beijing International Film Festival's lineup. Western reports, using the organisers blog as their source, claimed the police had detained the organisers and threatened them.
In 2017, an LGBT conference was scheduled to be held in Xi'an.
#Ban gay rule 34 series
Online streaming services including LETV and Tencent Video followed the new rule by deleting or censoring web series with LGBT characters. As a result of this new rule, many popular web television series at the time like Addicted and Go Princess Go were immediately pulled from broadcasting. On 31 December 2015, the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) of the People's Republic of China announced a new rule that banned any television show and film depicting "unnormal sexual relationships", including homosexuality. Main article: LGBT rights in China § Freedom of expression, religion and censorship