Four years, two ntents: a gay Che uple's journey for a surrogate son | Parents and parentg | The Guardian

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• 2,220 CHE COUPLE GAY STOCK PHOTOS & HIGH-R PICTUR
• GAY ASIAN MEN LOVE STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG
• YOUNG ASIAN GAY UPLE HUG AND KISS AT HOME. ATTRACTIVE ASIAN LGBTQ PRI MEN HAPPY RELAX SPEND ROMANTIC TIME TOGETHER WHILE LYG SOFA LIVG ROOM NCEPT. SLOW MOTN SHOT.
• FOUR YEARS, TWO NTENTS: A GAY CHE UPLE'S JOURNEY FOR A SURROGATE SON
• GAY CHE MEN STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG
• GAY ASIAN STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG
• GAY ASIAN MEN STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG
• ASIAN GAY UPLE HOMOSEXUAL OKG TOGETHER THE KCHEN PREPARE H VEGETABLE MAKE ANIC SALAD HEALTHY FOOD. ASIAN PEOPLE
• GAY CHE UPL WED WT HOLLYWOOD VIEW SLISHOW SHANGHAI RINT LI TAO, 30, IS LIFTED BY HIS NEW HBAND, DUAN RONGFENG, 38, ONE OF SEVEN CHE SAME-SEX UPL MARRIED A GROUP WEDDG CEREMONY THAT WAS OFFICIATED BY WT HOLLYWOOD MAYOR LDSEY HORVATH AT THE WT HOLLYWOOD LIBRARY.   (CHRISTA HOE / FOR THE TIM) SEVEN CHE UPL SHARE A KISS AFTER A GROUP WEDDG CEREMONY, OFFICIATED BY WT HOLLYWOOD MAYOR LDSEY HORVATH AT THE WT HOLLYWOOD LIBRARY.   (CHRISTA HOE / FOR THE TIM) SHANGHAI RINTS LI TAO, 30, LEFT, AND DUAN RONGFENG, 38, HOLD HANDS AFTER EXCHANGG VOWS DURG A GROUP WEDDG CEREMONY WT HOLLYWOOD WH SEVEN OTHER CHE SAME-SEX UPL.   (CHRISTA HOE / FOR THE TIM) XU NA, LEFT, AND XUE MENGYAO WALK TOWARD THE STAGE TO BE MARRIED A GROUP WEDDG CEREMONY OF SEVEN GAY AND LBIAN CHE UPL WHO WERE WED AFTER WNG A NTT.   (CHRISTA HOE / FOR THE TIM) XU NA, LEFT, GETS HER MAKP APPLIED WHILE HER PARTNER, XUE MENGYAO, RIGHT, WAS AT THE WT HOLLYWOOD LIBRARY BEFORE THEIR WEDDG. THE WOMEN WERE PART OF A GROUP NUPTIALS WH SIX OTHER CHE UPL WHO RECEIVED AN ALL-EXPENS-PAID TRIP AND A DREAM WEDDG AFTER WNG A NTT CHA, WERE GAY MARRIAGE IS NOT LEGAL.   (CHRISTA HOE / FOR THE TIM) BEIJG RINTS LIU X, 32, RIGHT, FIX THE HAIR OF HIS PARTNER, HU ZHIDONG, 33, AS THEY GET READY FOR THEIR WEDDG, PART OF A GROUP CEREMONY WH SIX OTHER CHE SAME-SEX UPL WT HOLLYWOOD.   (CHRISTA HOE / FOR THE TIM) SHANGHAI RINTS LI TAO, 30, LEFT, AND DUAN RONGFENG, 38, EXCHANGE RGS DURG GROUP NUPTIALS WT HOLLYWOOD. LI AND DUAN TRAVELED WH SIX OTHER CHE GAY AND LBIAN UPL TO WT HOLLYWOOD TO BE MARRIED AFTER WNG A NTT CHA, WHERE GAY MARRIAGE IS NOT LEGAL.   (CHRISTA HOE / FOR THE TIM) XU NA, LEFT, AND XUE MENGYAO WA TO BE MARRIED A GROUP WEDDG CEREMONY WT HOLLYWOOD OFFICIATED BY WT HOLLYWOOD MAYOR LDSEY HORVATH.   (CHRISTA HOE / FOR THE TIM) BEIJG RINTS HU ZHIDONG, 33, LEFT, AND LIU X, 32, CELEBRATE AFTER A GROUP WEDDG CEREMONY WH OTHER CHE SAME-SEX UPL WT HOLLYWOOD.   (CHRISTA HOE / FOR THE TIM) BEIJG RINTS LIU X, 32, AND HU ZHIDONG, 33, EMBRACE AFTER THEIR FIRST KISS AS A MARRIED UPLE. THE MEN WERE PART OF A GROUP WEDDG CEREMONY WT HOLLYWOOD WH SIX OTHER CHE GAY AND LBIAN UPL.   (CHRISTA HOE / FOR THE TIM) COPYRIGHT © 2023, LOS ANGEL TIM | TERMS OF SERVICE | PRIVACY POLICY | CA NOTICE OF COLLECTN | DO NOT SELL OR SHARE MY PERSONAL INFORMATN GAY CHE UPL WED WT HOLLYWOOD

2,220 CHE COUPLE GAY STOCK PHOTOS & HIGH-R PICTUR

Propaganda posters were an tegral part of atttg to the world the close relatnship between Cha and the Soviet Unn and as seen om this photographic llectn they walk hand--hand, kissg, clutchg each other, all happy and gay, so to speak. (They really look like a happy gay fay).

The homoerotic Che-Soviet munist propaganda posters look more like a gay uple’s vatn pics, or maybe an ad for terracial gay marriage.

The signers of the posters didn’t realize how homoerotic they were and later on, many scholars have poted out the overt homoeroticism prent the imag. Scholars thk that there is ltle evince that the artists tentnally portrayed homosexualy the imag.

GAY ASIAN MEN LOVE STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG

Moreover, the socialist aternal kiss was very mon back then, and even today if you go to certa untri, men still kiss on the mouth, and that’s not nsired a sign of homosexualy. Cha and the Soviet Unn were both rather homophobic societi.

The Bolsheviks, who me to power durg the October Revolutn of 1917, had crimalized male homosexualy already 1922.

Then, Joseph Stal recrimalized male homosexualy 1933-1934 wh the already mentned punishment of up to five years prison wh hard labor.

YOUNG ASIAN GAY UPLE HUG AND KISS AT HOME. ATTRACTIVE ASIAN LGBTQ PRI MEN HAPPY RELAX SPEND ROMANTIC TIME TOGETHER WHILE LYG SOFA LIVG ROOM NCEPT. SLOW MOTN SHOT.

Fally, Rsia crimalized homosexualy 1993, after the fall of the Soviet Unn 1991, orr to jo the Council of Europe.

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. 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.

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

Bee gay upl are not allowed to marry or adopt Cha, they started thkg about surrogacy. Photograph: Courty Quiguang Li and Wei XuFor this story, I spoke to a dozen gay Che men who have begun or pleted surrogacy the Uned Stat. Li says that for many gay men, the strong ph for babi om the elr generatn.

GAY CHE MEN STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG

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.

GAY ASIAN STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG

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. His patients clu one of the untry’s most fluential gay figur, Ma Baoli, founr of the world’s biggt gay datg app, Blued.

GAY ASIAN MEN STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG

“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.

ASIAN GAY UPLE HOMOSEXUAL OKG TOGETHER THE KCHEN PREPARE H VEGETABLE MAKE ANIC SALAD HEALTHY FOOD. ASIAN PEOPLE

Surrogacy was still a total mystery to most of the Che gay muny when Xu and Li started their journey 2014. On the Che msagg app WeChat, groups for gay dads and future dads have mhroomed. 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.

Most gay upl don’t have this ncern and, sometim, even like the ia of havg mixed-race babi, whose looks are often appreciated Cha.

GAY CHE UPL WED WT HOLLYWOOD VIEW SLISHOW SHANGHAI RINT LI TAO, 30, IS LIFTED BY HIS NEW HBAND, DUAN RONGFENG, 38, ONE OF SEVEN CHE SAME-SEX UPL MARRIED A GROUP WEDDG CEREMONY THAT WAS OFFICIATED BY WT HOLLYWOOD MAYOR LDSEY HORVATH AT THE WT HOLLYWOOD LIBRARY.   (CHRISTA HOE / FOR THE TIM) SEVEN CHE UPL SHARE A KISS AFTER A GROUP WEDDG CEREMONY, OFFICIATED BY WT HOLLYWOOD MAYOR LDSEY HORVATH AT THE WT HOLLYWOOD LIBRARY.   (CHRISTA HOE / FOR THE TIM) SHANGHAI RINTS LI TAO, 30, LEFT, AND DUAN RONGFENG, 38, HOLD HANDS AFTER EXCHANGG VOWS DURG A GROUP WEDDG CEREMONY WT HOLLYWOOD WH SEVEN OTHER CHE SAME-SEX UPL.   (CHRISTA HOE / FOR THE TIM) XU NA, LEFT, AND XUE MENGYAO WALK TOWARD THE STAGE TO BE MARRIED A GROUP WEDDG CEREMONY OF SEVEN GAY AND LBIAN CHE UPL WHO WERE WED AFTER WNG A NTT.   (CHRISTA HOE / FOR THE TIM) XU NA, LEFT, GETS HER MAKP APPLIED WHILE HER PARTNER, XUE MENGYAO, RIGHT, WAS AT THE WT HOLLYWOOD LIBRARY BEFORE THEIR WEDDG. THE WOMEN WERE PART OF A GROUP NUPTIALS WH SIX OTHER CHE UPL WHO RECEIVED AN ALL-EXPENS-PAID TRIP AND A DREAM WEDDG AFTER WNG A NTT CHA, WERE GAY MARRIAGE IS NOT LEGAL.   (CHRISTA HOE / FOR THE TIM) BEIJG RINTS LIU X, 32, RIGHT, FIX THE HAIR OF HIS PARTNER, HU ZHIDONG, 33, AS THEY GET READY FOR THEIR WEDDG, PART OF A GROUP CEREMONY WH SIX OTHER CHE SAME-SEX UPL WT HOLLYWOOD.   (CHRISTA HOE / FOR THE TIM) SHANGHAI RINTS LI TAO, 30, LEFT, AND DUAN RONGFENG, 38, EXCHANGE RGS DURG GROUP NUPTIALS WT HOLLYWOOD. LI AND DUAN TRAVELED WH SIX OTHER CHE GAY AND LBIAN UPL TO WT HOLLYWOOD TO BE MARRIED AFTER WNG A NTT CHA, WHERE GAY MARRIAGE IS NOT LEGAL.   (CHRISTA HOE / FOR THE TIM) XU NA, LEFT, AND XUE MENGYAO WA TO BE MARRIED A GROUP WEDDG CEREMONY WT HOLLYWOOD OFFICIATED BY WT HOLLYWOOD MAYOR LDSEY HORVATH.   (CHRISTA HOE / FOR THE TIM) BEIJG RINTS HU ZHIDONG, 33, LEFT, AND LIU X, 32, CELEBRATE AFTER A GROUP WEDDG CEREMONY WH OTHER CHE SAME-SEX UPL WT HOLLYWOOD.   (CHRISTA HOE / FOR THE TIM) BEIJG RINTS LIU X, 32, AND HU ZHIDONG, 33, EMBRACE AFTER THEIR FIRST KISS AS A MARRIED UPLE. THE MEN WERE PART OF A GROUP WEDDG CEREMONY WT HOLLYWOOD WH SIX OTHER CHE GAY AND LBIAN UPL.   (CHRISTA HOE / FOR THE TIM) COPYRIGHT © 2023, LOS ANGEL TIM | TERMS OF SERVICE | PRIVACY POLICY | CA NOTICE OF COLLECTN | DO NOT SELL OR SHARE MY PERSONAL INFORMATN GAY CHE UPL WED WT HOLLYWOOD

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. 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.