I’m more exposed to American conservatism. And even here I barely understand it. I used to be Christian, but I left the religion before I realized I was bi, and before I knew genderfluidity and trans people existed.
I guess I’d have to know why individual religious groups, countries, cities,(etc…) have anti-LGBTQ beliefs. Maybe there are no blanket statements that properly address it for the entire world.
I’ve read about China’s laws not legally recognizing long-term gay couples even if they’ve been together for decades. I don’t know where the reasons for it stem from.
I want to do a quick Google search on if gay marriage is legal in China, but I suspect I’d get a bunch of of articles saying it isn’t even if it is.
The only actual country in East Asia where gay marriage is legal is Nepal. Outside of that, it is only legal on Taiwan (unless your gay spouse is mainland Chinese, marrying anybody from the PRC has recently become illegal there). This is all in spite of East Asian countries as different as Japan, Vietnam or Thailand having higher public support for gay marriage than the US - this support does not extend to legal recognition, but instead attempts of reform have remained stuck in a judicial and buerocratic limbo for years in all three of these places.
If you have TikTok watch the user @cloudcloutclaud who is a gay Chinese guy who give direct answers to these sorts of questions.
A lot of homophobia can be traced to how a given culture reproduces. Traditionally (as in, at least two thousand years), Chinese men could legally have a wife but also additional lovers. Emperors are well known for this (indeed, like a third of Han emperors had male lovers), but it wasn’t exclusive to emperors. During the medieval period (idk it was like somewhere between 400 and 600, I’m on my phone so can’t check rn), there was a scare that relationships between officials and their wives were in trouble as the men were too focused on their male lovers instead. Monogamous same-sex relationships were rare and usually temporary as there was immense social pressure to reproduce. Confucianism served as the ideology of reproduction.