IJERPH | Free Full-Text | Unrstandg Che Gay Men’s and Lbians’ Experienc of Copg wh the Prsure to Marry om the Lens of Suzhi Disurse

Contents:

• THE HIDN LIV OF GAY MEN CHA
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• I’M 43 – BUT I’M MA TO FEEL LIKE A DOSR BY YOUNGER GAY MEN
• KEV SPACEY: I N’T TELL WHETHER MEN ARE GAY JT BY LOOKG AT THEM
• BEG GAY CHA HAS GOTTEN HARR UNR XI JPG
• UNRSTANDG CHE GAY MEN’S AND LBIANS’ EXPERIENC OF COPG WH THE PRSURE TO MARRY OM THE LENS OF SUZHI DISURSE
• IN CHA, GAY MARRIAGE IS BETWEEN A MAN AND A WOMAN

THE HIDN LIV OF GAY MEN CHA

There has been some excellent rearch to the emergence of gay and lbian inti Cha, cludg how the have been shaped by ro-Amerin ias of “gay sensibily” and characterised by “dividualy, difference, sophistitn, liberatn and morny”. One 2018 study tailed gay bars Shanghai that rivalled those of any wtern pal, the anisatn of “pri” events and the tense ntexts which “queer” film ftivals and wir cultural productn and activism occur the face of ntued regulatn by the thorarian state.

In the island’s biggt ci, Haikou and Sanya, there are gay bars and tablished cisg areas certa parks, centrally loted yet variably beyond the view of the wir public. Haikou’s current gay bar is accsed by climbg through a wdow on the fifth floor of an ageg tower block, out onto a balny, past a long dried-up swimmg pool and down a stg stairse.

In Sanya, the well trodn pathways that criss-cross a bamboo grove where the edge of a park meets a riverbank are a by gay meetg spot, while the cy’s gay bar, durg the time of my fieldwork, was aga loted a dised hotel. In the spac, fears of beg “outed” and the possible damage this uld do to fay and profsnal relatnships, mean that, as I was warned by Ah Tao, is bt not to “say any gay stuff”. But they are also a nstant prence everyday life, terptg moments of gay life – like the mundane and aggrsive remr Ah Tao received that he had “no wife, no children”.

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

But they often fear that the ways of livg are unstaable and that they mt eventually leave the gay world and nform to their fai and the wir society’s expectatns that they marry and have children. This has further entrenched the role of children as necsary rers for their ageg parents and gay men’s perceptns of their futur as oriented towards marriage and reproductn are wrapped up ncerns for self-prervatn. The tense social stigma that is attached to viatns om heterosexualy means that public visibily as gay is unsirable, pecially smaller ci and towns where bumpg to an nt, uncle or -worker is a nstant ncern.

But this may signal at least some tert challengg the stat quo and the potential for future chang to gay liv Haan through greater public visibily and engagement wh activism. Whatever forms sexual polics and activism take Haan, close attentn should be paid to the ncerns and sir of gay men, lbians and other margalised genr and sexual groups.

Per Outsports, Maxen is the “first publicly out male ach a major Amerin men’s pro sports league, ” wh WNBA ach Curt Miller, who publicly me out to the media as gay 2015, also a publicly out male ach an Amerin profsnal sports league. -- Jaguars assistant strength and ndng ach Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach major Amerin men's profsnal sports to publicly e out as gay, tellg he ma the cisn bee he didn't want to hi who he is any longer and to possibly spire others siar suatns.It's a cisn and move that drew praise and support om owner Shad Khan, who was a vol and emphatic supporter of a cy ordance that expand protectns on the grounds of sexual orientatn, genr inty and genr exprsn."I don't want to feel like I have to thk about anymore," Maxen said the piece published Thursday afternoon. The founr of the app, Mǎ Bǎolì 马保力, a gay man himself, prevly worked as a policeman when he first started the gay social workg webse (淡蓝网 dàn lán wǎng, a name lerally meang “light blue”) 2000, which later beme the foundatn for Blued.

I’M 43 – BUT I’M MA TO FEEL LIKE A DOSR BY YOUNGER GAY MEN

“Most of the profil I saw on Fda looked young, well-ted, who love postg photos and selfi of travels and workout, ” Tāo 涛, a 31-year-old gay man who recently immigrated to Canada, told The Cha Project. The Protol article also lks LESDO’s termatn to the challeng faced by lbian datg apps Cha, where queer women — pared to gay men — are ls terted fdg hookups on sex-oriented apps and more terted seekg mted relatnships and nnectns, a need that n be fulfilled outsi lbian-only platforms, such as LGBTQ groups on social media se Douban. John Wei, a media studi scholar the Universy of Otago New Zealand, remarked his book Queer Che Cultur and Mobili that Feizan tend to create an onle gay muny based on mon “terts” rather than erotic ntent that was rampant on other gay s the same perd.

ZANK also produced gay mi-seri: the most popular was a s lled A Gut Hoe Praise (一屋赞客 yīwūzànkè), which tells the story of a group of gay people livg the same apartment.

KEV SPACEY: I N’T TELL WHETHER MEN ARE GAY JT BY LOOKG AT THEM

Osr-wng actor Kev Spacey has said he is attracted to mascule men but is not able to tell whether someone is gay jt by lookg at cross-examatn durg his trial on sex abe charg, the Hollywood star nied he was a “sexual bully” and told the jury he did not have a “power wand” to make people want to sleep wh about his sexual preferenc, Mr Spacey said he had prevly had romantic enunters wh men who would not scribe themselv as homosexual.

A more assertive, self-reliant Cha has rulted  a subtle but nstant narrowg of gay spacPhotographer: GREG BAKER/AFPHello, I’m Colum Murphy, a reporter on our Cha ernment team based Beijg, wh a look at the steady erosn of gay life Cha. " And while homosexualy was crimalized 1997, no law prevents discrimatn based on sexual September 2018, when a televisn special shown to stunts on the first day of school featured male Che pop stars, fur edorials major newspapers lled the stars a bad fluence.

"In 2019, Che censors started blurrg earrgs and lored hair on male celebri appearg on shows as part of a ban on feme reprentatns, and they leted scen pictg homosexualy om the movie "Bohemian Rhapsody.

BEG GAY CHA HAS GOTTEN HARR UNR XI JPG

But there were still "certa l" he wouldn't let him cross, like raisg his pkie fger the gture known Cha as "orchid fger, " which is stereotypilly associated wh gay men and transgenr women. IntroductnChe gay men and lbians are faced wh many challeng posed by the heteronormative society they live , among which, marriage is the primary ncern for most of them [1]. Existg rearch has rarely studied the civilizatn disurse the Che tongzhi muny, and the operatn of suzhi among gays and lbians terms of alg wh the prsure to marry is unrstudied.

In orr to addrs the gaps, this rearch llected qualative data om gays and lbians to analyze how they al wh the prsure to marry by adjtg their practic to adapt to the disurse of civilizatn.

Rearch wh this area maly vtigat reasons for gay men and lbians to get married, how they al wh the maral prsure, and how their pg strategi fluence people, terms of reasons to get married, social stigma rulted om beg gay, sgle, and unmarried is the primary source of prsure that motivat gay men and lbians to get heterosexually married [7]. This heterosexist opportuny stcture strictly promot heterosexual relatnships but disurag same-sex relatnships [13] the pg strategi to alleviate their maral prsure, many Che gay men and lbians choose to nceal their same-sex inty and marry heterosexuals to manift their mment to reproductn and filial piety [3, 14]. One aspect that suzhi specifilly emphasiz ntemporary Cha is people’s qualy of moraly, hence dividuals’ proper exprsns of their same-sex inty and practic are important to differentiate them om others who are ’s marriage stutn rts on the heteronormative disurse assigns homosexualy negative meangs om the followg dimensns.

UNRSTANDG CHE GAY MEN’S AND LBIANS’ EXPERIENC OF COPG WH THE PRSURE TO MARRY OM THE LENS OF SUZHI DISURSE

At that time, homosexualy tend to unt as a nt way of life that stemmed om palism, and anythg related to palism was the enemy of socialism and th should be nmned [10]. As for the medil and legal dimensns, though homosexualy has been crimalized and pathologized 1997 and 2001, rpectively, gay men and lbians are still ascribed wh the stigmatizg nnotatns of HIV-fected and mentally ill [25].

Bis, the world’s first and largt anizatn for LGBT people and their fai PFLAG (parents, fai and iends for lbians and gays) found s chapter Guangzhou 2008, which then beme one of the most fluential Che LGBT NGO.

A Che thor who self-intified as heterosexual, fluent English and Mandar, and had built a rapport wh several Maland lbian and gay muny activists terviewed the participants Mandar—the participants’ first language. The LGBT activists ved the terviewer to post recment rmatn on the WeChat platform (a munitn mobile app wily ed among the Che populatn) where groups of gay men and lbians socialize. Altogether 21 gay men and lbians participated this study, whose ag ranged om 23 to 39 years, cludg 12 people who self-intified as gay men and 9 people who self-intified as lbian.

IN CHA, GAY MARRIAGE IS BETWEEN A MAN AND A WOMAN

As this rearch aims to obta as diverse opns as possible, gay men and lbians wh different maral stat and var relatnship experienc were clud for the purpose of generatg a paratively full picture.

Participants’ nfintialy, anonymoly dg their nam for reportg purpos, and the choice of immediate whdrawal were the gay participants, two had the experience of nomal marriage, three had a same-sex partner, and five were sgle. FdgsThe data analysis disvered how Che gay and lbian participants referred to the suzhi disurse to make themselv more aligned wh the mastream social valu so to make themselv more acceptable to Che society.

Constctg a Posive Same-Sex Inty and Civilized CommunyIn orr to make their iology bee a taken-for-granted piece of knowledge, participants terpreted homosexualy wh non-negative meangs through nstctg posive social reprentatns.