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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Terry Tang and Terry Chea

First of its kind queer museum in San Francisco Chinatown amplifies Chinese LGBTQ+ artists

Chinatown LGBTQ Museum - (Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

On one side of the world, Xiangqi Chen can be punished for her LGBTQ+ activism. But on the other, the activist and artist is lauded as a trailblazer — the architect behind the first of its kind Chinese queer art museum.

The irony that she left her home in China and found a public platform for her LGBTQ+ artistic expression in San Francisco’s Chinatown — the country’s oldest — is not lost on her.

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