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“It’s also where I met my current boyfriend.”

Adrian met his boyfriend almost two years ago. Intimacy is sacred and beautiful.

“It’s not as comfortable as it used to be,” he said. One modest action is by posting the rainbow flag on their profile. I spoke to Satrya*, the person who created the account @AlterAwards and hashtag #AlterAwards2019 to highlight queer Twitter accounts that are unique, educational or funny.

Meta and TikTok did not respond to requests for comment from Rest of World. But I wonder when my fellow gay friends can have these conversations freely and safely.

Lawmakers would invite input from all stakeholders, he said, without giving further details. Not all of them were created just for porn or shitposting. The photoshoot never happened, but the chemistry between the two continued.

People are “themselves” by tweeting about their daily lives—where they’re having lunch, where they’re going on holiday, what they’re wearing, whom they’re going on a date with—all without revealing their faces.

“This only shows the government is very concerned about investigative journalism and content that criticizes their policies, or can disrupt the status quo,” he said. We’ve started a group where people can communicate with each other through DMs.” He told me there are celebrities and public officials among them.

“We discuss everything, and sometimes we end up collaborating on projects in real life too,” he said.

But as the gay Twitter community grows bigger, and as his alternate self becomes more well-known, Arya told me that he has to watch what he tweets more now.

Most importantly, it’s where people can feel a little less lonely in this increasingly homophobic country. When they do have pictures of their faces, they will have stickers covering their identifying features. They provide gay communities with access to the public domain. They subvert the stigma by developing creative and positive strategies on social media.

For Arya*, 26, having to wear a virtual mask is a small price to pay for some sense of freedom. “Freedom of expression on the internet will be very limited” if the bill is passed, Yovantra Arief, executive director of media research outlet Remotivi, told Rest of World.

Indonesian media also play a significant role in producing stigma against LGBTQ communities.

When he started his second account in early 2016, Adrian was still afraid of the possibility that his profile might pop up on his work colleagues’ feeds through the “suggested friends” feature on Twitter.

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The photos he uploads to his Twitter account only show his face covered with stickers.

Indonesia prohibits the production and distribution of pornographic content.

The new broadcast bill aims to bring back the authoritarianism of former president Suharto, under whose three-decade rule Indonesian media experienced heavy censorship, Andreas Harsono, a researcher at advocacy group Human Rights Watch, told Rest of World.

But maybe instead of wishing for something too far ahead in the future, it’s better to just appreciate the community that we have today.

When a person comes out as gay in Indonesia, it’s not uncommon that people react by saying “you can be cured”.

Indonesian gay communities use social media to disclose their orientation.

Will there ever be a day where revealing your full identity doesn’t feel like social suicide? At the same time, authorities have been tightening their grip over online content, with laws expediting the removal of posts that “disturb public order” or are considered unlawful, and restricting so-called fake news.