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Many lament loss after Chinese magazine for gay, AIDS-affected communities closes
by Xinhua writer Yang Dingdu
BEIJING, July 20 (Xinhua) — A retired colonel in China’s armed police force and a gay, Zhang Guowei was delighted to find an extra-thick copy of “Friend Exchange” had arrived one morning after returning from his morning exercises.
He had been a subscriber to the magazine for the homosexual and AIDS-affected communities [...]
Gay, lesbian community’s pride of place
By Todd Balazovic and William Axford (China Daily)
Drag queens dotted the sidewalks of Solana on Saturday as members of the gay and straight community descended on Langtung Thai Bar to celebrate their “Jing Pride”.
Organized by volunteers from Beijing’s gay community, Jing Pride is one of the first gay pride charity events to take place in [...]
Chinese gays are chasing the elusive rainbow
By Linda Gibson (China Daily)
Watching gay men and lesbians in China struggle for basic rights and dignity is like hurtling through a time warp to the past.
Job discrimination. Social ostracism. Broken-hearted parents. Lives of deception, denial and depression. Police oppression. Brutality from vicious straight men or teenage hoodlums looking for easy targets.
And those are just [...]
Gay group finds a public place to call home
Center promotes understanding on a shoestring budget supply
In apartment 2108, there’s a small second-hand book market. It seems nothing special but the dozens of rainbow-colored signs decorating the room offer some clues to the uniqueness of the event.
This is a gay-themed sale in the unit, which functions as the Beijing LGBT Center, for the lesbian, [...]
My wife, your husband
By Mei Jia (China Daily)
Lesbian partners are tying the knot with gay couples to satisfy their parents, but find the deception exhausting. Mei Jia reports
Zhang Nana (not her real name), a 32-year-old working for a Beijing-based magazine, and her 58-year-old parents are caught in a crisis that threatens to tear apart the family.
But it was [...]
International gay day in Beijing
An event celebrating an “International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia” (IDAHO) was held last night at Beijing’s Café Copy in the Today Art Gallery, and was organized by the British Em-bassy and Queer Comrades, a Beijing-based LGBT awareness group.
“We are delighted that the embassy could support this evening’s event,” said Chris Wood, deputy British ambassador [...]
Amid family pressures, gays in China turn to marriages of convenience
In China, where homosexuality remains taboo, many gays enter marriages of convenience to satisfy family pressure to wed and have children. While they act like a couple in front of their families, many don’t live together.
A couple presents wedding dress during the Wedding Expo in Harbin, capital of northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province, April 9. In [...]
Homosexuality in China: Collateral damage, Neither comrades nor spouses
www.economist.com
“THERE are three ways of being an unfilial son,” argued Mencius, an ancient Confucian philosopher. “The most serious is to have no heir.” The desire for male descendants has had many baleful consequences in China, and in recent years one that used to be hidden has come to light. Millions upon millions of women are [...]
Gay Cruise Ship Docks at Asia’s ports
Written by Jens Kastner，asiasentinel.com
Sailing, Sailing, over the bounding main…
On Tuesday the Azamara Quest, a 30,777 tonne luxury cruise liner is due to arrive in Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbor at almost exactly the same time the USS Blue Ridge, the US Navy’s Seventh Fleet command and control ship, sails out carrying 1,000 sailors.
The Azamara Quest set [...]
