Swiss drag queen faces Chinese repression

In China, the space available for queer subcultures is shrinking. A drag artist from Zurich experienced this first-hand while on tour. In a small venue in Kunming, southern China, ‘Soya the Cow’ is rehearsing her act. The Zurich-based drag queen – or ‘Drag Cow’, as she calls herself – tackles themes including how humans treat animals and homosexuality in the animal kingdom. Whether her show can go ahead later that afternoon, however, is far from certain. “The tour started in Shanghai. But the...

By Samuel Emch, SRF