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Contents:

• CHA’S LGBT MUNY DON’T NEED WTERN ‘GAY PRI’
• BEG GAY CHA HAS GOTTEN HARR UNR XI JPG
• FOUR YEARS, TWO NTENTS: A GAY CHE UPLE'S JOURNEY FOR A SURROGATE SON
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

CHA’S LGBT MUNY DON’T NEED WTERN ‘GAY PRI’

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.

BEG GAY CHA HAS GOTTEN HARR UNR XI JPG

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.

After the vio of him kissg his worker went viral, Chai said he was taken asi by a senr manager who told him that homosexualy was agast “socialist re valu, ” and asked him to rema silent on the topic.

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

Although Chai rerd some of his supervisor’s homophobic remarks – cludg llg homosexualy “abnormal” – durg their nversatns, Zhong said the airle sisted urt that those reprented personal opns, not a rporate posn.

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

Many of the untry’s current lears grew up durg the Cultural Revolutn the 1960s and ’70s, when thori attempted to purge any “non-socialist” elements – cludg homosexualy – om Che society. “It may be an executive’s personal opn that homosexualy is abnormal or immoral – but if there is a workplace equaly law, what that executive thks won’t matter anymore.

After readg Chai’s story, Liu, who is gay, left an angry ment on the official Instagram page of Cha Southern, which is listed on the New York Stock Exchange and had been rapidly expandg s global work before the panmic. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTA lawsu brought by a stunt is part of an effort to get schools, edors and publishers to regnize that beg gay is not a mental Ho for The New York TimEarly llege, Ou Jiayong had already learned two thgs. And two, n be hard to change them — pecially on topics as sensive Cha as 2016, durg her first year at South Cha Agricultural Universy her hometown, Guangzhou, she stumbled across a psychology textbook that scribed beg gay as a mental a lbian, Ms.

Her se has renewed the nversatn about tolerance and human rights a untry where discrimatn based on sexual orientatn is rampant and where homosexualy has long been seen as patible wh the tradnal emphasis on a letter to the judge, Ms. “It brought back memori of beg lghed at by my classmat bee of my homosexualy, ” she wrote the letter, which her lawyer read aloud urt this summer, three years after the su was judge was unswayed.

Cg a survey that a rearch group nducted 2016 and 2017, out of the 91 psychology textbooks ed Che universi, almost half of them said that homosexualy was a type of disease. Three weeks after the verdict, a school Jiangsu said would amend a health tn manual after an ter er highlighted a phrase that said: “Homosexualy go agast the laws of nature.

This year, as Cha prepared to adopt s first civil , activists led an unsuccsful ph for the legalizatn of same-sex marriage, floodg legislators wh more than 230, 000 onle suggtns and though Cha crimalized homosexualy 1997 and removed om an official list of psychiatric disorrs 2001, discrimatn persists employment, health re and other areas.

In 2015, a stunt sued the Mistry of Edutn over textbooks that scribe homosexualy as an afflictn, argug that the ernment was rponsible for ensurg the books’ qualy and should disclose s approval procs; she lost two years later.

In 2014, a Che urt orred a clic to pensate a man who unrwent electroshock therapy signed to “cure” homosexualy, sayg the clic had mted nsumer sug for discrimatn is harr bee Che law do not protect people based on their sexual inty. Ou’s lawsu was uched as a vlatn of nsumer rights, wh her lawyers argug that there were dozens of typos and other errors the 2013 edn of “Mental Health Edutn for College Stunts, ” a wily ed most egreg error, they said, was this phrase: “Compared wh the sexual orientatn of most people, homosexualy n be seen as a mental disorr or a nfn of sexual sir. ” Sce homosexualy is no longer on Cha’s official list of psychiatric disorrs, the phrase is factually rrect and the publisher should be held liable, said Leon Ge, Ms.

” France-Prse — Getty ImagShe took the publisher to urt the next year, driven by her classmat’ rogatory ments as well as the suici of a gay stunt at a Guangzhou universy the hearg was fally schled for this summer, Ms. More about Sui-Lee WeeA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 7 of the New York edn wh the headle: In Cha, Views on Homosexualy Evolve but Textbooks Lag Behd.

Asi om the ual discrepancy between ral and urban areas, there is also a large generatn gap: a 2016 survey showed that 35% of people born pre-1970 would reject a gay child, while only 9% of people born after 1990 would do the same.