Around 2016 or so, the US embassies and consular posts did some pro-LGBTQ actions.
In Guangzhou, there was a sort of competition between the US consular post and the Chinese ministry of trade building (which face each other across a big city thoroughfare) where they gradually increased the size of their national flags over time.
Then LGBTQ Pride Month began, and the US consulate put up a large Pride flag, and the Chinese gov't building went back to its normal sized flag of China, presumably either in defeat or in some moral victory.
Also, in Shanghai, an outgoing Obama-era Dept. of State appointee formally married his (Chinese) same sex partner while on consular grounds, as US law applied inside the consulate and by then marriage equality had already become fully legal across all US states. This not only caught the media attention of the Chinese LGBTQ movement, but also interestingly demonstrated a valid means of immigration to the US - a spouse of any gender can apply for a green card as long as their marriage, if same-sex, was lawful wherever it took place. Because this same-sex marriage took place on US jurisdictional territory, it meant that a same-sex couple married within China but technically on US soil could thus immigrate to the USA lawfully.
abraksis747 on June 27th, 2021 at 14:06 UTC »
Diplomatic immunity
birstinger on June 27th, 2021 at 14:47 UTC »
It wasn’t just America that did it https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2021/06/25/us-western-embassies-fly-gay-pride-flags-in-moscow-a74345
dusmeyedin on June 27th, 2021 at 17:28 UTC »
Around 2016 or so, the US embassies and consular posts did some pro-LGBTQ actions.
In Guangzhou, there was a sort of competition between the US consular post and the Chinese ministry of trade building (which face each other across a big city thoroughfare) where they gradually increased the size of their national flags over time.
Then LGBTQ Pride Month began, and the US consulate put up a large Pride flag, and the Chinese gov't building went back to its normal sized flag of China, presumably either in defeat or in some moral victory.
Also, in Shanghai, an outgoing Obama-era Dept. of State appointee formally married his (Chinese) same sex partner while on consular grounds, as US law applied inside the consulate and by then marriage equality had already become fully legal across all US states. This not only caught the media attention of the Chinese LGBTQ movement, but also interestingly demonstrated a valid means of immigration to the US - a spouse of any gender can apply for a green card as long as their marriage, if same-sex, was lawful wherever it took place. Because this same-sex marriage took place on US jurisdictional territory, it meant that a same-sex couple married within China but technically on US soil could thus immigrate to the USA lawfully.