Unrstandg Che Gay Men’s and Lbians’ Experienc of Copg wh the Prsure to Marry om the Lens of Suzhi Disurse - PMC

Contents:

• BEG GAY CHA HAS GOTTEN HARR UNR XI JPG
• FOUR YEARS, TWO NTENTS: A GAY CHE UPLE'S JOURNEY FOR A SURROGATE SON
• UNRSTANDG CHE GAY MEN’S AND LBIANS’ EXPERIENC OF COPG WH THE PRSURE TO MARRY OM THE LENS OF SUZHI DISURSE
• GAY CHA
• GAY M/M CHA - (MOVI & DRAMAS)

BEG GAY CHA HAS GOTTEN HARR UNR XI JPG

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.

FOUR YEARS, TWO NTENTS: A GAY CHE UPLE'S JOURNEY FOR A SURROGATE SON

Durg this year’s Pri Month, soccer star Li Yg ma history as Cha’s first female athlete to e out publicly as gay, a ndid seri of celebratory photos posted on social media, showg her posg happily alongsi her partner. In years past, June was filled wh LGBTQ (lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer) events major ci such as Shanghai and Beijg, durg which Cha’s sexual mori uld semi-openly celebrate their inty.

Some LGBTQ people have blamed the crackdown on the rrect imprsn that homosexualy is a Wtern import to Cha, and groups supportg gay rights are liable to filtratn by foreign forc.

Some also spect a more direct lk between the crackdown on LGBTQ rights and top officials’ worldviews, which for many were shaped durg the Cultural Revolutn the 1960s and ’70s, when thori attempted to purge any “non-socialist” elements — cludg homosexualy — om Che society. Li and Xu, a gay uple who have been together sce 2007, would walk out of the airport, get married two days later Los Angel, and, more important, start their journey toward 2015 to 2018, Li and Xu ma four transpacific trips as part of their gtatnal surrogacy procs.

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

They traveled nearly 50, 000 , spent more than $200, 000, and went through untls days of distrs, all to fulfill the dream of havg their own creasg number of Che gay men, like Li and Xu, are travelg thoands of and spendg hundreds of thoands of dollars to pursue a dream that is impossible at home. Although this ia is unr fierce attack om some Cha’s younger generatn, still ronat wh many young Che people, cludg some gay men who are asked, or volunteer, to have a child to protect the mianzi of their parents and some of the parents, that means gog as far as phg their sons to the surrogacy journey. David Wang, a sgle, gay man of 28, livg the south-wtern provce of Sichuan, says took years for his parents to accept his sexualy after he me out 2013.

“I have several patients who told me that they me out to their parents after their baby was born, ” says Rgler, who is a gay dad through surrogacy himself. Several Amerin surrogacy agenci and fertily clics told me that they’d seen a surge Che clients, startg around 2013, wh gay people makg up a signifint portn of the clientele. Photograph: Courty Quiguang Li and Wei Xu“Enomic velopment Cha … has created a number of middle-class people, cludg those who are homosexual, ” observ Zhijun Hu, who, unr the noted alias “Ah Qiang”, has been workg as an LGBTQ+ activist Cha for more than 20 years.

Havg an Amerin baby through surrogacy has now bee a popular and accsible life goal for urban gay men day after they ma through ctoms, Xu and Li went to the HRC Fertily Clic Pasana center for sperm llectn. 885 – for every 1, 000 male newborns, there are only 885 femal – rankg last among all 153 untri US agenci and clics nfirm that gay Che tend parents have a noticeable preference for sons, though some note that they see the same preference across gay men of all wanted a son. Diego tomatilly obtaed US cizenship, and Xu wants him to learn English se he wants to go back at some pot his nsult wh other gay dads about how to look after and te a child.

GAY CHA

In the Group for Dads of Amerin Babi chat group, they ask qutns about practil thgs like supplements and discs the challeng of parentg, which is still generally viewed as a woman’s duty Zhou, a member of the chat group who is expectg his baby to be born through surrogacy 2020, says that most gay Che parents are particularly eager for rmatn about how to parent. Latk, Amic EdorAbstractChe gay men and lbians are faced wh multiple challeng by livg a heteronormative society, and marriage is nsired to be a major ncern among this group of people. Anchorg om the lens of suzhi disurse, this rearch rried out a qualative study by terviewg 21 gay men and lbians to explore how they refer to the suzhi disurse to jtify their choic when faced wh the prsure to marry, so as to align themselv more wh the mastream social valu.

Rults dite that when faced wh the prsure to marry, gay men and lbians refer to the suzhi disurse to nstct a posive same-sex inty and civilized muny, pursue civilized same-sex relatnships, or nstct a flexible life. 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].

GAY M/M CHA - (MOVI & DRAMAS)

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].