Chinese history wasn’t always straight. While queerness may seem like a foreign import, its roots in China date back to ancient times. This was part of a broader history of same-sex relationships, non-normative sexualities, and transgender identities that have largely been forgotten. Queer pasts are actively erased so that queer futures may cease to exist. Today, despite growing constraints and “official pressure”, queer communities endure. Straight, queer, or undisclosed—together, the artists in Tender Comrade create an exhibition that breaks all the rules defining who we are and how we are perceived.