BEIJING — A report based on a survey of nearly 30,000 respondents from all provinces in China reflecting the life experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people was launched today at the United Nations Compound in Beijing to mark the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHOT). Entitled “Being LGBTI in China —…
Voice of America (VOA) announced Wednesday that a 20-something gay man has filed a lawsuit against a civil affairs bureau in Hunan province. “Sun Wenlin, 26, filed a lawsuit December 16 against the Furong district civil affairs bureau in Changsha, the capital of Hunan province in central China. His lawsuit challenged the bureau’s refusal to…
Lost in the kerfuffle of relentless Bruce-Jenner-is-a-woman-but-not-gay-but-Republican media noise this past week was a small but powerful story of Li Tingting. Ms. Tingting, 25, was just released from a Chinese jail after being arrested for planning to distribute stickers at bus stations to raise awareness of sexual harassment on public transport. She was arrested along…
In China, homosexuality still remains taboo. But the pressure to conform to heteronormative behavior stems neither from religion nor the state but from Chinese families where a one-child policy puts additional pressures on gay men to continue the family line. Enter the ‘homowives,’ a non-derogatory term in China that refers to the wives of gay…
Documentarian Fan Popo’s latest endeavor about the lives of six mothers and their gay or lesbian children has been pulled offline by state officials for reasons that have not been officially announced. Mama Rainbow, a modest success with over 100,000 views on such popular video portals as YouKu.com. and 56.com, is part of an unofficial…
In what is believed to be the first of its kind, ChinaPost.com.tw is reporting that a man, known pseudonymously as Mu Yi, has filed a 50,000 yuan (US$8,000) gay discrimination lawsuit against a former employer after a video he was in went viral revealing his sexual orientation. “We’re very optimistic,” Liu Xiaohu, a lawyer for…
Yang Teng, 30, won a historic court ruling this week when The Haidian District Court in China ruled that the six electroshock therapy treatments given Teng to cure him of his homosexuality were ruled illegal. The court has ordered the Xinyu Piaxiang clinic, which claimed it could “cure” Teng of his homosexuality and where he…
Billing itself as the first of its kind in China, Blued, a popular gay dating app, is anything but with news that a group of American venture capitalists will be investing 30 million dollars in the start-up. The app combines the immediacy and locality-based functionality of similar applications like Grindr and Scruff, but also enables…
As part of CNN’s ongoing series On China, reporter Kristie Lu Stout takes a look at the challenges – some familiar, some remote – that members of the LGBT community face on mainland China. While the report does note that consensual sex between members of the same gender was decriminalized in 1997, followed subsequently by…
