An English language Chinese newspaper, the South China Morning Post, reported that the Chinese government has shut down several gay websites.

From 365gay.com

The Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post says that China's internet domain-name registration company has shut down several popular gay Web sites under what the paper said was pressure from police.

The registration company is controlled by the government.

All of the sites were forums where people could post information. One of the sites, tzgay.ful.cn received 100,000 hits per day. It was frequently used by people to discuss coming out.

Another of the closed sides, chinagay.ful.cn, disseminated information on safe-sex. Since it opened last February it has had about 400,000 the Morning Post said.

Following the crackdown other forums sites have begun purging LGBT content.

China Shuts Down Gay Web Sites [365gay]

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