New Delhi, June 25 -- On one side of the world, Xiangqi Chen can be punished for her LGBTQ+ activism. But on the other, the activist and artist is lauded as a trailblazer - the architect behind the first of its kind Chinese queer art museum.

The irony that she left her home in China and found a public platform for her LGBTQ+ artistic expression in San Francisco's Chinatown - the country's oldest - is not lost on her.

"Here in San Francisco Chinatown, I still continued my journey and met so many like-minded community members and friends," Chen told The Associated Press through an interpreter. "It kind of actually encouraged me and gave me lots of strength to do what I know is my mission, my calling."

The OUT Museum opened with a rainbow...