As an independent release through A24, Moonlight hardly carries the same financial incentive, leading most to believe that the movie will not grace Chinese screens.
A Chinese premiere for Moonlight would mean incredible things for Chinese LGBT citizens, so here’s hoping that Beauty and the Beast really has paved the way for the Oscar-winner.
Still, in a country that considers movies like Brokeback Mountain to be “pornographic,” any whiff of gayness is likely to cause a stir.
The barely-there gay themes of Beauty and the Beast and Power Rangers don’t exactly push against China’s censorship history so much as tap it, delicately, with one finger.