China wtf man!!! NOT ALL GUYS ARE GONNA WANT PUSSY AND NOT ALL WOMEN WANT DICK SO WHAT THE...

Not exactly new information though, the human rights abuse and censorship in China is hardly a secret from the international audience, it's even a part of school curricula. "Gay conversion therapy" discrimination for supporting lgbt rights or being lgbt are not viewed as crimes, ditto there is a controlled media which censors anything labelled as "pornography" and restricts independent media. South Korea is hardly the most progressive too, the media may recently have lessened the restrictions on LGB portrayals, but equal rights and a less social conversative attitude to gender and sexual orientation is far off. The person in question produced a book that wasn't your typical "brotherly love, not gay" like most Chinese webtoons, but detailed same-sex scenes between men and women. They independently produced a book, that drew attention due to it's popularity, and because it sold a certain amount, the content creators and distributors were seen as committing a serious offense which can carry a lengthy prison term, even life. Crack downs on LGB portrayals in China are not exactly a new revelation, recently you might have heard of the Weibo scandal. The lack of media representation is only part of the discrimination that LGBT people face there, but there does seem to be growing public discourse about this, even if the environment where conformity and face is all, means that equal rights that are everyday elsewhere may be a way off.