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Cultural Exchange: 'Cur That Kill' shows the slow pace of acceptance gays Cha are experiencg. * isaac stone fish gay *
“They get some betiful men to walk around naked bi you, or make you watch gay porn, ” says Zhang Beichuan, one of Cha’s leadg experts on homosexualy, scribg a practice he don’t advote. ”To addrs this issue, the Che gay rights anizatn Queer Comras terviewed Zhang and others for a documentary about two men stgglg wh their homosexualy, and the hospals dotted around Cha advertisg a solutn.
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Tled “Cur That Kill” and released last week, tells the story of A Wen, a Sichuane photographer, and Sanr Chan, an ethnic Che polician om Holland who spent years tryg to e his belief Christiany to exorcise his homosexualy: “I would often fast for one or two days after havg a sexual fantasy, jt as a remr of what my goal is, ” he stoilly tells the mera. A Wen’s malaise was ed by a problem mon wh the Che generatn growg up the 1980s and earlier: an almost plete lack of awarens of homosexualy. ”Treatment of homosexuals has improved greatly over the last half century om the benighted nfn of the Mao years.
In 2001, the health mistry removed homosexualy om s list of mental disorrs. In the that followed, the expansn of civil society, the growth of the Inter and the velopment of psychologil unselg have enabled homosexuals to feel more fortable a society that still fails to fully embrace them. Though there are probably more than a hundred gay bars throughout Cha and more than a dozen gay support anizatns Beijg, other people “are jt not aware of , ” Hui said, partially bee Che media and popular culture lack openly gay Chunjian, 32, is a fay therapist who specializ gay youth; the documentary he speaks of the need for gays to accept themselv.
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“Homosexualy is nate, ’s not somethg that n be cured, but somethg that people mt work to accept, ” says Liu, who me out to his bt iend five years ago but is still wag for the right time to reveal his sexual orientatn to his nsens among the lol gay muny is that those on the maland peddlg cur for homosexualy, which clu dg prcriptns, nsultatn, surgery and even electric shock, do ls out of a Christian or moral opposn to homosexualy and more out of a sire for fancial ga. None of the doctors who claimed the abily to cure homosexualy were willg to operate wh the documentary, so the moviemakers filmed a volunteer speakg wh their clics on the phone. A reprentative om a clic the provcial pal of Taiyuan said homosexualy is a “sexual substutn problem, like boot fetish, ” and refed to elaborate, cg s sire to protect “s profsnal secrets.
” “When you ll as someone seekg a cure, you will make dollar signs flash their ey, ” the film quot Fang Gang, a sexology expert, as Cha homosexualy is mostly seen as a fay problem. ” Li Yhe, one of Cha’s premier sexologists, timat that 16 ln Che men marry orr to please their fay; she lls their spo homowiv. “It’s ls the people themselv wantg to vis clics and get cured and more the parents after fdg out their kid is gay, or wife bee the hband is gay, ” says Wei Xiaogang, -founr of Queer Comras and the documentary’s director, an impish man wh a ser se, whose “Cur, ” a work equal parts earnt and amatr, will be put onle and possibly screened schools for tnal Popo, a 26-year-old documentary filmmaker and former executive director of the Beijg LGBT center, says some parents, lackg any basic unrstandg of homosexualy, will drag their kid to a doctor after he out.
Although his parents accept his homosexualy, “I have a sister who always says to me you should go to the hospal and see if they n cure you. ”Chan, whose Christian-based cure volved “prayg J to his past, ” snapped out of not long after “stg around a table wh a group of gay Christians, and somehow the topic swched to prsn, and I found out that everyone at the table had tried to m suici at some pot. ” He’s sce happily been relatnships wh that he’s moved to Beijg and met other gays, A Wen realized who he is and learned to accept his sexual orientatn.