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...
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
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> * chinese gay history *
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.
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 *
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. ” 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.
THE GAY ASIAN ACTIVIST WHOSE THEORI ON SEXUALY WERE DES AHEAD OF THEIR TIME
* chinese gay history *
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. 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.
Later there were the dranian law s imposed on Cha by the Mongols and the Manch, which ma homosexualy and certa other forms of extramaral sex ser crimal offens. Homosexualy Che tradnal philosophy and relignDpe mon misnceptns, Cha has always been morately open towards LGBTQ+ people. There is no real evince of homosexualy terdictn Taoism, and homosexualy is generally not nsired a crime or immoral.