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===East Asian religions===
Among the [[Taoic religions]] of [[East Asia]], such as [[Taoism]], passionate homosexual expression is usually discouraged because it is believed to not lead to human fulfillment.<ref name="Wawrytko, Sandra 1993">Wawrytko, Sandra (1993). ''Homosexuality and Chinese and Japanese Religions'' in "Homosexuality and World Religions", edited by Arlene Swidler. Trinity Press International, 1993.</ref>

==== Burmese folk religion ====
{{Main|Burmese folk religion}}
Many ''Nat Kadaws'' in traditional Burmese folk religion are members of the LGBT community.<ref>{{cite web |last=Brown |first=Grace |date=2018-09-01 |title=Myanmar's LGBT community find freedom at spirit festival |url=https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/31/asia/myanmar-spirit-festival-intl/index.html |access-date=2021-11-25 |website=CNN |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Coleman |first1=Eli |last2=Allen |first2=Mariette Pathy |last3=Ford |first3=Jessie V. |date=May 2018 |title=Gender Variance and Sexual Orientation Among Male Spirit Mediums in Myanmar |journal=Archives of Sexual Behavior |volume=47 |issue=4 |pages=987–998 |doi=10.1007/s10508-018-1172-0 |pmid=29497915 |s2cid=4730569}}</ref><ref>{{cite thesis |last1=Purday |first1=Kevin Michael |title=Shamanic gender liminality with specific reference to the NatKadaw of Myanmar and the Bissu of Sulawesi. |date=2013 |url=https://repository.uwtsd.ac.uk/id/eprint/433/ |s2cid=131727907}}</ref>

==== Chinese folk religion ====
{{Main|Chinese folk religion}}
[[Tu'er Shen]], also known as the Rabbit God, is a gay [[Shen (Chinese religion)|Chinese deity]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Volodzko |first=David |date=2020-10-09 |title=How Fujian was once an LGBT mecca (where people worshipped a rabbit god) |url=https://supchina.com/2020/10/09/how-fujian-was-once-an-lgbt-mecca/ |access-date=2021-12-16 |website=SupChina |language=en-US |archive-date=1 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210901220450/https://supchina.com/2020/10/09/how-fujian-was-once-an-lgbt-mecca/ |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=2015-01-19 |title=Taiwan's gays pray for soul mates at 'Rabbit' temple |language=en |work=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/taiwan-gay-temple-idINKBN0KS0R120150119 |access-date=2021-12-16}}</ref> In 2006, Lu Wei-ming founded a temple for Tu'er Shen and Taoist worship in [[Yonghe District]] in the [[New Taipei City]] in [[Taiwan]].<ref>{{cite web |last=GOLD |first=MICHAEL |date=2015-01-26 |title=Praying for a soul mate at Rabbit Temple |url=https://www.thestar.com.my/lifestyle/people/2015/01/26/praying-for-a-soul-mate-at-rabbit-temple |access-date=2019-12-04 |website=The Star Online |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2015-01-19 |title=Why Taiwan's 'Rabbit' Temple Is Almost Exclusively Gay |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/taiwan-gay-temple-_n_6499210 |access-date=2021-12-16 |website=HuffPost |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Citation |title=受同志社群歡迎的台北道教廟堂 | date=17 January 2015 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abSidDFK_ec |access-date=2021-12-16 |language=en}}</ref> About 9,000 pilgrims visit the temple each year praying for a suitable (same-sex) partner.<ref>{{cite web |date=2015-01-19 |title=Why Taiwan's 'Rabbit' Temple Is Almost Exclusively Gay |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/taiwan-gay-temple-_n_6499210 |access-date=2019-12-04 |website=[[HuffPost]] |language=en}}</ref> The Wei-ming temple also performs love ceremonies for gay couples.<ref>{{cite web |last=Alexander Stevenson |title=Thousands of Gay Pilgrims Trek To Taiwan To Pray For Love At 'Rabbit' Temple |url=http://www.newnownext.com/taiwanese-rabbit-temple-drawing-gay-pilgrims/01/2015/ |date=22 January 2015 |publisher=[[Logo TV]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Rabbittemple |url=https://twitter.com/rabbittemple |access-date=2021-12-16 |website=Twitter |language=en}}</ref> It is the world's only religious shrine for homosexuals.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2015-01-19 |title=Taiwan's gays pray for soul mates at 'Rabbit' temple |language=en |work=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/taiwan-gay-temple-idINKBN0KS0R120150119 |access-date=2019-12-04}}</ref>

====Confucianism====
[[Confucianism]], being primarily a social and political philosophy, focused little on sexuality; whether homosexual or heterosexual. However, the ideology did emphasize male friendships, and [[Louis Crompton]] has argued that the "closeness of the master-disciple bond it fostered may have subtly facilitated homosexuality".<ref name="Crompton">Crompton, Louis. ''Homosexuality and Civilization''. Harvard University Press. p. 221</ref> [[Homosexuality]] is not mentioned in the [[Analects of Confucius]].<ref name="Siker encyclopedia">Jeffrey S. Siker, [https://books.google.com/books?id=PUqn33H-uDYC&q=Confucianism+homosexuality&pg=PA210 Homosexuality and Religion: an encyclopedia]. page 210. 2007. {{ISBN|0-313-33088-3}}</ref>

==== Đạo Mẫu ====
{{Main|Đạo Mẫu}}
In Vietnam, many LGBT people find a safe community within the ''Đạo Mẫu'' religion, which is worship of the mother god''.''<ref>{{Cite web |last=VietnamPlus |date=2013-12-11 |title=First art festival focuses on LGBT community {{!}} Culture - Sports {{!}} Vietnam+ (VietnamPlus) |url=https://en.vietnamplus.vn/first-art-festival-focuses-on-lgbt-community/53562.vnp |access-date=2021-12-09 |website=VietnamPlus |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Some Asian Governments Claim LGBTQ Culture Is a Western Invention: Here's Why That's Garbage |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/some-asian-governments-claim-lgbtq-culture-is-a-western-invention-heres-why-thats-garbage/ |last=Ngu |first=Sarah |date=June 6, 2019 |website=Vice |access-date=January 26, 2024 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201101024349/https://www.vice.com/en/article/kzmpyy/some-asian-governments-claim-lgbtq-culture-is-a-western-invention-heres-why-thats-garbage |archive-date=November 1, 2020}}</ref> Many LGBT people act as mediums during ''Đạo Mẫu'' rituals''.''<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Binh |first1=Tran Thi Thuy |last2=Filax |first2=Gloria |date=2019 |title=Social effects of Đạo Mẫu gay mediums |journal=Regional Journal of Southeast Asian Studies |volume=3 |issue=1 |pages=2–24}}</ref>

==== Shinto ====
{{Main|LGBT topics and Shinto}}

Historically, [[Shinto]] "had no special code of morals and seems to have regarded sex as a natural phenomenon to be enjoyed with few inhibitions."<ref name="Crompton 2003">{{cite book |last=Crompton |first=Louis |title=Homosexuality and Civilization |publisher=[[Harvard University Press]] |year=2003 |isbn=9780674022331 |location=[[Cambridge, Massachusetts]] |page=413 |chapter=Pre-Meiji Japan |lccn=2003245327 |quote=Shinto was principally concerned with propitiatory rites and ceremonies; [[Japanese mythology|its mythology]] fostered nationalism through the [[Imperial cult#Ancient and Imperial Japan|cult of divine emperors]], but it had no special code of morals and seems to have regarded sex as a natural phenomenon to be enjoyed with few inhibitions. [[Phallus|Phallic]] [[Shinto shrine|shrines]] dotted the countryside. Premarital virginity was not rigidly insisted upon, and freeborn boys did not lose status if they had adult lovers. Early law codes penalized incest and bestiality but not [[homosexual relations]]. The [[Shinto gods|gods of the Shinto pantheon]] were themselves highly sexual. In later times, some of them were seen as "guardian deities" of [[Love between men|male love]]. |author-link=Louis Crompton |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TfBYd9xVaXcC&pg=PA413}}</ref> While [[Shinto#Beliefs|Shinto beliefs]] are diverse, Japanese Shinto does not condemn homosexuality,<ref name="Crompton 2003" /> and the formally organized [[Konkokyo]] sect is fully affirming.<ref>{{Cite web |date=May 2017 |title=Face to Faith No.89 |url=http://kic.jpn.org/jpn/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/No89.pdf}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Bernkastel |first=Olivia |date=2018-12-15 |title=Throughout the years and even now, I have often been asked the view Shinto holds in regard to… |url=https://medium.com/@livingwithkami/throughout-the-years-and-even-now-i-have-often-been-asked-the-view-shinto-holds-in-regard-to-6d9eb0057997 |access-date=2021-08-25 |website=Medium |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Living with Kami |url=https://www.livingwithkami.com/post/171313633965/great-news-from-konkokyo-message-below-from-the |access-date=2021-08-25 |website=Living with Kami |language=en}}</ref> Multiple Shinto leaders advocated in support of [[Same-sex marriage in Hawaii|gay marriage in Hawaii]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=31 October 2013 |title=Testimony in support of SB1 Relating to Equal Rights |url=https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/splsession2013b/SB1_Testimony_JUD-FIN_10-31-13_InPerson_Part1.pdf |website=Capitol.Hawaii.Gov}}</ref>

====Taoism====
{{Main|Homosexuality and Taoism}}
There is no single official position on homosexuality in Taoism, as the term Taoism is used to describe a number of disparate religious traditions encompassing a variety of views. Although Taoist alchemy generally emphasized that ejaculation in heterosexual relationships represented a draining of the male's "life essence," this concept was not generally extended to non-heterosexual sex.

In a similar way to Buddhism, Taoist schools sought throughout history to [[Five Precepts (Taoism)|define]] what would be sexual misconduct. Broadly speaking, the precept against "sexual misconduct" in Taoism relates to extramarital sex. The term for a married couple (夫婦) usually in Chinese suggests a male with a female, though Taoist scripture itself does not explicitly say anything against same-sex relations.<ref>{{cite book |trans-chapter=Supreme [[Laozi]]'s Precepts |script-chapter=zh:太上老君戒經 |title=Zhengtong daozang |trans-title=Zhengtong-era Daoist Canon |year=c. 1445 |script-title=zh:正統道藏|ref={{harvid|Zhengtong daozang|1445}}}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |trans-title=The Great Dictionary of Taoism |script-title=zh:道教大辭典 |author=Chinese Taoism Association |year=1994 |publisher=华夏出版社 |isbn=7-5080-0112-5}}/B.054</ref> Many sorts of precepts mentioned in the [[Yunji Qiqian]] ({{lang|zh|雲笈七籤}}), The Mini Daoist Canon, does not explicitly say anything against same-gender relations as well.<ref>{{cite book |trans-chapter=[[Yunji Qiqian]]. Precepts |volume=38-40 |script-chapter=zh:雲笈七籤.說戒部 |trans-title=Zhengtong-era Daoist Canon |script-title=zh:正統道藏}}</ref>

Homosexuality is not unknown in Taoist history, such as during the Tang dynasty when Taoist nuns exchanged love poems.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20060513051220/http://www.glbtq.com/social-sciences/china%2C5.html Homosexuality in China] on [[glbtq.com]].</ref> As a sexual misconduct however would depend on what sect or school they were from as some traditions considered homosexuality to be misconduct and others did not mention it at all. There are also certain [[Fulu|talismans]] recorded in different traditions that claim to "cure" a person of the "homosexual disease/desire". Attitudes about homosexuality within Taoism often reflect the values and sexual norms of broader Chinese society and what region of China the sect resided in (see [[Homosexuality in China]]).