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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
Cha's gay men, stgglg wh stigma and social prsure to marry women and have children, pe to Beijg's Dongdan Park. * beijing gay park *
”NEWSLETTER: Get the day’s top headl om Tim Edor Davan Maharaj >>For more than three s, Dongdan Park, one e east of Tiananmen Square, has attracted gay men om across Cha. Some seek a long-term love tert, some a one-time sex partner, others crimalized homosexualy 1997 and removed om s official list of mental illns four years later.
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.
GAY BEIJG: EXPLORE THE THRIVG LGBTQ+ SCENE AND UNVER HIDN TREASUR
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The crowds are agg: Thanks to onle gay datg apps, fewer young men e to the park. “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.
FOR CHA'S GAY MEN, DONGDAN PARK BEIJG OFFERS HAVEN
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.
FOR CHA’S GAY MEN, DONGDAN PARK BEIJG OFFERS HAVEN
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. “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. “Cha needs to have reprentativ for the homosexual muny the Natnal People’s Congrs to brg up proposals of gay marriage for the revisn of the law, ” said knows he’s unlikely to bear wns to such a velopment. Yet, havg weathered the twists and turns of a Che gay man’s life for more than half a century, he remas optimistic.
“But fewer people discrimate agast gay men now. ”Zhang is an tern The Tim’ Beijg ‘gayborhoods’ a victim of the gay rights movement’s succs? Beijg tly juxtapos the old and the new the days—ancient hutongs (rintial alleyways) populated wh h boutique bs, morn tak on culary stapl like Beijg duck, abandoned factori turned to thrivg arts districts, and an unr-the-radar yet energized LGBT scene.To get the sop on the bt, olt, and most LGBT-iendly spots, we tapped a pair of -the-know openly gay lols.