Li and Xu fell love a untry where gay marriage and surrogacy are illegal. Their stggle – and succs – is part of a growg trend<br>
Contents:
- GAY EMPERORS CHE HISTORY
- FOUR YEARS, TWO NTENTS: A GAY CHE UPLE'S JOURNEY FOR A SURROGATE SON
- THE GAY ASIAN ACTIVIST WHOSE THEORI ON SEXUALY WERE DES AHEAD OF THEIR TIME
GAY EMPERORS CHE HISTORY
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The historian Bret Hsch asserts Passns of the Cut Sleeve: The Male Homosexual Tradn Cha that all ten emperors who led over the first two centuri of the Han dynasty were “openly bisexual, ” wh Ai beg the tenth. Gil, wrg the Journal of Sex Rearch, Cha had “a long history of dynastic homosexualy” before the Revolutn of 1949, wh “urtly love among lers and subjects of the same sex beg elevated to noble virtu.
FOUR YEARS, TWO NTENTS: A GAY CHE UPLE'S JOURNEY FOR A SURROGATE SON
In the 1930s, Li Shiu Tong's boyiend, Magn Hirschfeld, was a proment fenr of gay people. But Li's own rearch has long been overlooked * chinese gay history *
” He says that the survivg lerature om that time perd Cha “dit that homosexualy was accepted by the royal urts and s ctom wispread among the nobily. While the de later turned on Mizi Xia, this vigte led to both “the bten peach” and “Mizi Xia” beg tchphras referrg to gay love Che. While Europe’s Christiany promoted homophobia (along wh sexism and racism), much of the rt of the world celebrated a diversy of ways to love, to prent genr, and to have sex prelonial tim.
THE GAY ASIAN ACTIVIST WHOSE THEORI ON SEXUALY WERE DES AHEAD OF THEIR TIME
Ever sce s elimatn om the list of mental illns 2001, and crimalizatn 1997, homosexualy Cha ntu to be at the foreont of Cha’s growg human rights bate. The timated 40 ln lbian, gay, bisexual... * chinese gay history *
Even the ancient perd, we see men who mataed a heterosexual marriage and a homosexual romance whout apparently seeg any ntradictn between the two.
Jack Kapac, Culture/Communy/Race: Che Gay Men and the Polics of Inty, Anthropologi, Vol. 40, No. 2 (1998), pp. 169-181 * chinese gay history *
Durg the Song dynasty there was the popular redisvery of a sixth-century Indian Buddhist text that nmned homosexualy.