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China has nothing to learn from the West about queer rights because the reason queer people had to be so upfront in the West and occupy the spotlight is because they've seen brutal state repression that other countries didn't have
They don't realise that what they're saying is "China should have more institutional homophobia so that their queer communities feel the need to organise Pride"
The Western handling of queer rights has been an abject failure. I don't think any country that has a goal of normalizing and codifying anything relating to them should use the West as a model.
Cuba is one of the few countries to actually meaningfully make progress in a legal framework that creates an open, equitable definition of family/relationship matters. Their approach wasn't to otherize and create complex and easily dismantled coutouts either. It was just to say "any orientation and configuration of family and relationship is valid and will be accepted by the State as long as the individuals involved agree".
Plus there are big areas of China that are known to be very LGBT friendly. Basically cities the size of New York with the reputation of San Francisco. Any big movement you see in China is likely to come from one of those regions.