Temple to Tu'er in Taipei, Taiwan. A functioning and world famous temple to a Gay God, the Rabbit God in English.
Temple to Tu'er in Taipei, Taiwan. A functioning and world famous temple to a Gay God, the Rabbit God in English.
Gay temples already exist, we need to have a temple here in the United States. It doesn't need to be Taoist, but we need to have a place for the Gay spiritual community.
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Links to the posts about the visit to the Temple of Tu’er are at the end of this article.
The story of Tu’er
From the Wikipedia entry which I have corroborated elsewhere.
Tu'er Shen was a man named Hu Tianbao (胡天保) who fell in love with a very handsome imperial inspector of Fujian Province. One day he was caught peeping on the inspector through a bathroom wall, at which point he confessed his reluctant affections for the other man. The imperial inspector had Hu Tianbao sentenced to death by beating. One month after Hu Tianbao's death, he appeared to a man from his hometown in a dream, claiming that since his crime was one of love, the underworld officials decided to right the injustice by appointing him the god and safeguarder of homosexual affections.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu%27er_Shen
The temple in Taipei, Taiwan
They have a webpage in Chinese here.
They are on X (formerly Twitter).
https://twitter.com/RabbitTemple
https://www.facebook.com/WeiMingShrine
News articles about him and the temple.
https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2023/02/15/2003794373
https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2007/10/21/2003384192
https://the-singapore-lgbt-encyclopaedia.fandom.com/wiki/Rabbit_God
Praying for boyfriends.
This is one of the big draws of the temple.
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2expib
About the video that made Tu’er famous.
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https://www.facebook.com/nomadicboys/photos/a.1404332946490071/2843282432595108/
https://www.facebook.com/WeiMingShrine/videos/1686211681882693
