Cha's gay men, stgglg wh stigma and social prsure to marry women and have children, pe to Beijg's Dongdan Park.
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- FOR CHA’S GAY MEN, DONGDAN PARK BEIJG OFFERS HAVEN
- GAY BEIJG: EXPLORE THE THRIVG LGBTQ+ SCENE AND UNVER HIDN TREASUR
- FOR CHA'S GAY MEN, DONGDAN PARK BEIJG OFFERS HAVEN
- FOR CHA’S GAY MEN, DONGDAN PARK BEIJG OFFERS HAVEN
FOR CHA’S GAY MEN, DONGDAN PARK BEIJG OFFERS HAVEN
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Though same-sex marriage has not been legalized, Che media regularly report on high-profile gay home weddgs and gay upl gettg marriage certifit the Uned for many gay Che, is still difficult to buck social prsure to fd a spoe of the oppose sex and have children. Confucian iology mak no allowanc for homosexualy, and there are no legal protectns agast discrimatn. The crowds are agg: Thanks to onle gay datg apps, fewer young men e to the park.
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“Nobody outsi knows I’m gay. He admisters ee HIV/AIDS tts, hands out ndoms and livers what he lls one-on-one “homosexual 101” ssns. Topics clu cheatg heartbreakers, gay inty and how AIDS is and his five-person volunteer group have mimal ntact wh their ernment sponsors.
Che media equently portray HIV/AIDS as a “gay disease, ” even though natnal statistics show heterosexual sex was the route of transmissn 66% of new s reported the first 10 months of 2014. “The CDC r about meetg their quotas of HIV posiv and gettg their fundg, but we see homosexuals wh feelgs, ” Peng said. “Their heart is not wh the e of anti-AIDS for the homosexuals.
Sometim they even discrimate agast gay tt-takers. ”Anti-gay mentari often appear mastream publitns. Zeng Yi, a profsor Confucianism at Tongji Universy, lled homosexualy “a crime agast humany” an say for the Shanghai-based news webse the Paper after the U.
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“Superstars don’t want to lose their heterosexual fans, and those polics need a ‘normal’ fay to survive and get promoted, ” said soclogist Li Yhe, a longtime advote for gay rights timat there are 39 ln to 52 ln gay men among Cha’s 1. Wh same-sex marriage unregnized, adoptn by gay upl prohibed and surrogacy banned, a majory of this group, she says, would marry women (cludg some lbians, who face a siar stigma). Some eventually bee regulars, returng to seek a sense of the meantime, a few Che gay-rights activists persist phg for greater social regnn, and even marriage rights.