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Contents:
- TO SURVIVE, CHA’S BIGGT GAY DATG APP BEME A PHARMACY
- HOW A CHE GAY DATG APP BLAZED A TRAIL TO THE US STOCK MARKET
- FOUR YEARS, TWO NTENTS: A GAY CHE UPLE'S JOURNEY FOR A SURROGATE SON
TO SURVIVE, CHA’S BIGGT GAY DATG APP BEME A PHARMACY
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Cha — brgg together a mory muny whout activism.Cred...Illtratn by Timo LenzenPublished March 5, 2020Updated March 12, 2020Like many gay Che growg up at the turn of the lennium, Duan Shuai began his long, liberate procs of g out onle. Then he’d go to QQ, the new stant-msagg service and onle fom, and type the Che word for “homosexual” — tongzhi, or ra.Offle, Duan had known for a long time that he was different — and he knew no one else like him.
HOW A CHE GAY DATG APP BLAZED A TRAIL TO THE US STOCK MARKET
Onle, he stumbled to a world where he fally felt he belonged, a place where gay people like himself sought kship and nnectn.
FOUR YEARS, TWO NTENTS: A GAY CHE UPLE'S JOURNEY FOR A SURROGATE SON
To faiarize himself wh Cha’s burgeong gay culture, he listened to the talks by the genr-studi scholar Li Yhe on the popular televisn channel Hunan TV; read “Crystal Boys,” a novel about gay youth Taipei by the Taiwane wrer Bai Xianyong; and equented onle chat rooms for gay men like Boy Air, BF99, Don’t Cry My Friends and the lol Tianj Cool, where he met his first boyiend, a graduate stunt five years his senr.As Duan me of age, so did the Che ter. Whereas Duan once sought out gay muni small groups and quiet bars, today, as a 33-year-old workg publishg Beijg, he n jo gay meet-ups on WeChat; follow blogs and g-out stori on Weibo, a Twter-like platform; and, perhaps most ccial, he n nnect and fd partners on Blued, a gay social workg app.