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• ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI
• WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT A SEEMGLY FAKE DOCUMENT A GAY RIGHTS CASE
• LEGAL QUIRK ALLOWS GAY UPL CHA TO GET MARRIED ONLE NSERVATIVE UTAH
• BEG GAY CHA HAS GOTTEN HARR UNR XI JPG
• THE GAY UPLE FIGHTG FOR THE RIGHT TO MARRY CHA
• IN WT HOLLYWOOD, GAY UPL OM CHA FULFILL A DREAM: MARRIAGE
• IN CHA, GAY MARRIAGE IS BETWEEN A MAN AND A WOMAN
• TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT
• MY THREE WEDDGS: LIFE AS A GAY MAN CHA
• CHE GAY WEDDG THAT PTIVATED THE NATN OM POLICE THREATS TO 'DOCTORS'
• UNRSTANDG CHE GAY MEN’S AND LBIANS’ EXPERIENC OF COPG WH THE PRSURE TO MARRY OM THE LENS OF SUZHI DISURSE
• FOR GAY CHE, GETTG MARRIED MEANS GETTG CREATIVE
• FOUR YEARS, TWO NTENTS: A GAY CHE UPLE'S JOURNEY FOR A SURROGATE SON
• GAY WEDDG MAK A SPLASH ONLE
• DIVORCE, MARRIAGE AND WHAT MEANS TO BE GAY CHA
• CHA'S GAY PRI WEEK MIX CELEBRATN, CTN
• INDIAN-AMERIN GAY UPL FD NEW FORMS OF UNN AMID STIGMA
• THREE MEN GET MARRIED WORLD'S FIRST 3-WAY GAY WEDDG THAILAND
• GAY THE PLA: CHE MILARY VIEWS ON HOMOSEXUALS SERVG THE ARMED FORC

ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI

AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTA supposed requt for a webse for a same-sex weddg played a mor role a major clash between ee speech and gay rights at the Supreme Supreme Court led last week that a Colorado graphic signer has the right to refe to create webs for same-sex Jiang for The New York TimAfter the Supreme Court led last week that a Colorado graphic signer has the right to refe to create webs for same-sex marriag, crics of the cisn raised qutns about a form clud urt papers the se that appeared to show that a gay uple had sought the servic of the signer, Lorie man who supposedly submted the form said he was unaware of s existence until a reporter for The New Republic lled him. ”The marriag have no legal weight Cha, where same-sex marriage is illegal, but upl are eager to solemnize their mment the ey of the state – even if ’s not their said that he’s done about a dozen marriag for gay upl Cha, though most of the time the upl are non-Che rints of Cha, or mixed upl where one person is a Che natnal and the other is not Che but liv Cha.

’”That Utah – a heavily Republin state where the nservative Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats, better known as the Mormon church, holds signifint sway – has bee the legal venue of choice for gay upl abroad is due part to a legal quirk: Utah has no rincy or cizenship requirements for marriage licenc, and Provo, the state’s fourth-largt cy, allows onle ternatnal marriag. Siarly, although same-sex marriage is illegal Hong Kong, the law there regnis overseas marriag for tax purpos and also allows Hongkongers to apply for pendant visas for their same-sex of the Utah loophole began to spread on gay and lbian chat groups Cha, who learned to work around the ernment’s pervasive censorship, replacg phras like “same-sex” wh d phemisms like “bt iends” mostly leavg LGBTQ+ groups alone durg the early days of Xi Jpg’s le, Che thori have creasgly targeted the LGBTQ+ rights movement. Markets Enomics Indtri Tech AI Polics Wealth Pursus Opn Bsweek Equaly Green CyLab Crypto A more assertive, self-reliant Cha has rulted  a subtle but nstant narrowg of gay spacPhotographer: GREG BAKER/AFPFebary 17, 2022 at 7:28 AM ESTHello, I’m Colum Murphy, a reporter on our Cha ernment team based Beijg, wh a look at the steady erosn of gay life Cha.

'Authentilly myself'Ray said he had also stggled growg up gay the 1970s and 80s England, which was "tough" said his relig school "dmmed to you, 'you are gog to hell'" Adam returned home to Sdi Arabia, spe beg more than 3, 000 apart and later rtricted by the Covid-19 panmic, they kept touch daily and the romance years ago, Ray proposed on a vio ll and after succsfully applyg for a UK fiancé visa, Adam moved to Manchter December 2022. Adam said he had been aaid to even wear lours his home untry so the first thg he did when he moved was start to "grow my mullet, got my ears pierced and booked appotments for tattoos" relled how, ntrast, one of his gay iends Sdi had been forced to marry a woman, addg: "It has ed not only his life but the life of his wife. For seven Che gay upl, a trip to California offered somethg that wasn’t legal at home: marriage upl were among hundreds who entered a high-profile onle ntt offerg an all-expens-paid Amerin dream Tuday, they wed at the Wt Hollywood Library — the same place where, two summers ago, gay upl married en masse after same-sex marriage beme legal mera crews surround her, Xue Mengyao sneaked a look at her bri-to-be, Xu Na, gettg her makp done and wearg a long whe drs wh lace and pearls.

WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT A SEEMGLY FAKE DOCUMENT A GAY RIGHTS CASE

“In the past, homosexualy, gamblg and prostutn were all nsired dirty subjects and not allowed the media, ” said Li Yhe, a Che soclogist and as the untry’s enomy has veloped and tolerance has grown, the Che ernment has taken a somewhat agnostic approach toward homosexualy, neher banng nor endorsg , Li datg apps are popular Cha, and gay weddgs are creasgly attractg public tert.

LEGAL QUIRK ALLOWS GAY UPL CHA TO GET MARRIED ONLE NSERVATIVE UTAH

Nohels, thoands of gay men and women are tyg the knot., the earlit and most active webse for gay men and women to fd stand- spo, currently has over 380, 000 ers and claims to have matched nearly 20, 000 upl sce started 2005.

BEG GAY CHA HAS GOTTEN HARR UNR XI JPG

Maybe when we want to have a kid the future, I will try to have a long talk wh I did marry a woman once, so maybe tak the prsure off 2015, after Li and I had been together 11 years, Pflag Cha joed wh two webs to take selected gay upl to get legally married the Uned cid to have a go. (Supplied: Li and Duan)This year we celebrated our send anniversary by jog a special Pflag Cha event — a cise ship adventure where ne gay upl would get married tradnal Che a volunteer, I was rponsible for the stage equipment and marriag would not be legally regnised Cha, but when the ne upl entered their exquise red fery, wh blsgs and red envelop om their parents and a tradnal weddg song playg, I uldn't stop my tears Che culture, 's really important to have our parents' blsg when we marry. Lg Juedg (right) and Chen Liang kiss after exchangg weddg vows a ceremony Cha on June 27They were fyg the police, who had warned them agast holdg their event and had turned up to the ceremony, sparkg fears that uld be shut were also fyg the doctor who had once pumped Mr Lg full of dgs an attempt to 'cure' him of the supposed 'mental illns' of marriage is not regnised Cha so Mr Lg, 34, and Mr Chen, 27, rema legally, as they explaed to MailOnle their first major terview about the ceremony, they hope their act will help spire Cha to move towards a greater level of acceptance of homosexualy, followg same-sex marriage beg legalised across the US the day before their bash.

THE GAY UPLE FIGHTG FOR THE RIGHT TO MARRY CHA

The uple exchange rgs at the ceremony, as hundreds of exced guts take pictur on their smartphon and meras The ceremony, central Beijg, was not jt one of happs – was one fyg police, the ernment and doctors who had prevly tried to 'cure' Mr Lg of homosexualy Gay marriage is not regnised Cha so Mr Lg (right), 34, and Mr Chen, 27, rema legally unmarriedThe uple hired a weddg planng pany to anise their ceremony but the planners had to sut over ten potential venu bee the lol ernment prsured them to turng the pair away, claims Mr Lg, the CEO of a gay datg app lled Zank. Although the ernment has improved s relatnship wh the gay muny recently through posive relatns wh muny and dtry lears, prejudice agast homosexuals still abounds throughout Che gay Che people keep their sexualy a secret om their parents throughout their liv, often enterg sham marriag to keep up the chara. ' Although by that pot they were happy to be openly gay, like lns of young Che they were not so relaxed about their sexuali when they were Lg was 14 when he first me to know he was gay, a realisatn that occurred to him after he read about homosexualy beg scribed as a 'disease' a medil book.

IN WT HOLLYWOOD, GAY UPL OM CHA FULFILL A DREAM: MARRIAGE

Anchorg om the lens of suzhi disurse, this rearch rried out a qualative study by terviewg 21 gay men and lbians to explore how they refer to the suzhi disurse to jtify their choic when faced wh the prsure to marry, so as to align themselv more wh the mastream social valu. Rearch wh this area maly vtigat reasons for gay men and lbians to get married, how they al wh the maral prsure, and how their pg strategi fluence people, terms of reasons to get married, social stigma rulted om beg gay, sgle, and unmarried is the primary source of prsure that motivat gay men and lbians to get heterosexually married [7].

IN CHA, GAY MARRIAGE IS BETWEEN A MAN AND A WOMAN

This heterosexist opportuny stcture strictly promot heterosexual relatnships but disurag same-sex relatnships [13] the pg strategi to alleviate their maral prsure, many Che gay men and lbians choose to nceal their same-sex inty and marry heterosexuals to manift their mment to reproductn and filial piety [3, 14].

One aspect that suzhi specifilly emphasiz ntemporary Cha is people’s qualy of moraly, hence dividuals’ proper exprsns of their same-sex inty and practic are important to differentiate them om others who are ’s marriage stutn rts on the heteronormative disurse assigns homosexualy negative meangs om the followg dimensns.

Tryg to subvert nstrats exerted on them by extant social ventns, gay men and lbians this study distanced themselv om non-posive social reprentatns and voiced for, homosexualy was nstcted as a social beg stead of social practice that was associated wh negative nnotatns. Acrdg to participants, a stable and cent job will enable a longer lastg relatnship for gay men and lbians, which not only provi them higher social stat and shield social stigma, but also crease their nflicts regardg livg expendure if they hab wh their partners.

TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT

Moreover, participants believed that a cent job wh high social stat and good payments will prevent gay men om havg fily affairs, as they value their reputatn and th would try to stay scere to their partners jt like heterosexual upl would do.

On one hand, they did not need to ceive a straight person to marriage, as tongqi (straight women who marry gay men) were a group of people who were equently mistreated and even abed by their gay hbands, and therefore, the public fi ceptive marriage.

On the other hand, for gay men and lbians who tend to get nomally married, they had to be more rourceful terms of fdg an appropriate nomal partner and beg able to afford the prospective expense of weddg and ftival fay visg gifts later kd of nomal marriage exposed some problems, though eful. The legal power is another form of power exercised by the marriage stutn, as the legal disurse Cha renrs no protectn for gay men and lbians, and the only way this group of people want to obta certa rights is pretendg to be heterosexual.

MY THREE WEDDGS: LIFE AS A GAY MAN CHA

Gay men are still wily associated wh HIV fectn and transmissn, and one study documents that even healthre profsnals hold this misnceptn, and their fear or homophobia pos a barrier to the health or well-beg to GLB members, pecially agg on [30]. However, different om existent fdgs, this paper perceiv how Che gay men and lbians’ al wh their maral prsure om a new angle of suzhi by intifyg how they tablish a high-suzhi inty and muny as well as e suzhi to jtify their different heteronormative disurse rried out by Che marriage stutn brought wh power equaly and manipulatns, which aimed to manver gay men and lbians to nformatn wh heteronormativy.

However, Cha's open door polici the early 1980s set motn social and cultural chang that would lead Beijg to crimalize homosexualy 1997 and remove om an official list of mental disorrs time, major ci would wns lively gay and lbian scen wh the proliferatn of clubs and bars. "I know 's jt a proposal and 's most likely not gog to be realized the near future, but the fact this topic is now publicly and officially on the table giv the LGBT muny hope for the first time after years of hidg and stgglg, " she told NBC apparent change of stance is "a promisg and posive step, " said Hu Zhijun, director of PFLAG, another advocy group named after the large LGBTQ rights group the Uned shift even seemed to extend to the cema — the first gay kiss of the "Star Wars" film anchise recently ma to Cha's theaters.

CHE GAY WEDDG THAT PTIVATED THE NATN OM POLICE THREATS TO 'DOCTORS'

That followed a few months after scen of homosexualy the bpic "Bohemian Rhapsody" were leted by Che Cha's LGBTQ muny, the changg ernment stance reflects a changg climate of opn due to the "greater open-mdns" of the Che public, pecially the younger generatn, Hu Cha appears to be movg toward liberalizg s stance on LGBTQ issu reflects the "evable trend, " Peng said. "The important thg is that 's no longer possible for society to stay where was 10 years ago, " Peng said, argug that the acceptabily of gay marriage to the younger generatn has "exceed" the imagatn of Che notg that Cha has s own dynamics and pace, Hu poted to Taiwan's legalizatn of same-sex marriage May, the first such legalizatn Asia, as proof that tradnal Che culture is open to same-sex Hu Xgdou, an pennt social affairs mentator based Beijg who is a former enomics profsor, Cha's shiftg stance reflects the untry's greater engagement wh the outsi world. Experts and members of the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr (LGBT) muny say that the fact LGBT people still feel pelled to nform to social norms, marry someone of the oppose sex and bear a child prov that they still have their work cut out for them tryg to change tradnal societal attus and elimate discrimatn agast homosexualy.

Typilly experienced behd closed doors, the issue was thst to the spotlight last June, when a 31-year-old bri om Sichuan Provce jumped to her ath after disverg that her hband was all gay people Cha are satisfied wh this arrangement. "Most of the gay upl I know, even if their parents know that they're gay and are perfectly ok wh that, experience prsure to have a formal marriage to a member of the oppose sex that that rults a child, " Karl Dian is one such example.

He very clearly told me that I n date a girl, but one day, I have to get married and have my own fay, by which he means a heterosexual marriage, " said the Dian's mother, on the other hand, has never objected to her dghter's homosexualy.

UNRSTANDG CHE GAY MEN’S AND LBIANS’ EXPERIENC OF COPG WH THE PRSURE TO MARRY OM THE LENS OF SUZHI DISURSE

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.

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.

FOR GAY CHE, GETTG MARRIED MEANS GETTG CREATIVE

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. 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. 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.

”The social scene many high profile LGBTQ+-iendly ci tend to skew male, and Chengdu there are certaly gay-foced venu—take nightclub Max, and the Thursday’s weekly Pri party at Unrground bar, n by openly gay English expat Gary Daniels.

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

This n lead to ser domtic problems, a drastic example beg 31-year-old Luo Honglg, who mted suici last year upon disverg that her new hband was gay (her fay’s lawsu agast the gay hband for d was rejected by a Chengdu urt last month).

Cha Real Time Report edor Josh Ch speaks further about Beijg Intermediate People’s Court’s proposal wh The Wall Street Journal’s Deborah Kan, also talkg more broadly about the social acceptance of homosexualy Cha and ceremonial gay marriag:. In 2015, veteran gay rights activist Chi Chia-wei – who has spent 30 years fightg for marriage equaly – filed a requt to the Constutnal Court askg for a lg on an article the island’s civil statg that marriage is between a man and a woman. Image source, Sameer SamudraImage ptn, Sameer (L) and Am stggled to fd a Hdu prit willg to marry themExclud by tradnal marriage ceremoni, Indian-Amerin gay upl the US are fdg new and unique ways to solemnise their unns, reports Sava Patel.

GAY WEDDG MAK A SPLASH ONLE

Templ refg to host same-sex weddgs, prits hangg up on their phone lls or unwillg to tweak the ceremony to su them and, some s, not even showg up on the day of the weddg - the experienc have driven Indian-Amerin gay upl to fall back on iends and well-wishers to create unique ceremoni rooted their culture. Younger generatn(s), multi-racial upl, gay upl, gay Asian Amerins, immigrants, pri, fay valu and … while I found the endg of this movie somewhat unrealistic (I'll let other viewers ci) I also found the film challengg and optimistic (which is where my realism tak over) should watch this movie if you are… Asian… gay… Asian AND gay… or simply want to learn somethg about another culture.

DIVORCE, MARRIAGE AND WHAT MEANS TO BE GAY CHA

Based on the te story of one of his iends the first half of the film, Lee and -wrer/producer Jam Scham take the story through a few s onto the (Wston Chao) is a gay Taiwane landlord New York wh his boyiend Simon (Mchell Liechtenste).

Cross cultur and cross sexuali add dynamism and lour and more than ht of later films such as The Ice Harvt and (of urse) Brokeback don't have to be gay, or otherwise, or anythg particular, other than beg human to appreciate the story and s characters - a 20 somethg gay Taiwane man livg wh his boyiend New York and whose far-away mother is spendg all her time settg him up wh a possible wife. GAO gave a red-paper-pack of money as a birthday gift to "his another son" Simon after attacked by apoplexy which e by knowg his son a gay man, and still asked Simon to assist himself pretendg unaware of 's a fabulo movie that mak me watch aga and aga and aga. Basilly Taiwane-Amerin Wai-Tung Gao (Wston Chao) and Simon (Mchell Lichtenste) are a gay uple who have been livg happily Manhattan for ten years, his tradnal parents do not know and are eager to see him get married and have a child to ntue the fay le.

The performanc are all well done, the directn is sharp, and is a simple ia done brilliantly well, a gay man hidg his sexualy and gettg married for nvenience, I found dramatic some plac as well as very funny, mak you lgh wh the mix of eastern and wtern culture clash, and the hilary om the plan that backfir, is a clever and most satisfyg edy. 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.

CHA'S GAY PRI WEEK MIX CELEBRATN, CTN

Although timat vary, rearchers believe that Cha is home to the world’s largt populatn of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) dividuals: potentially as many as 70 ln, or about 5 percent of the populatn (BMC Public Health, May 12, 2020; Rters, Febary 20, 2020). For example, Zhang Tao (2018), summarizg rults of a survey of stunts at an unspecified PLA tnal stutn, exprs dismay that rponnts were unable to “rrectly” intify that male homosexuals spread HIV “more easily” than heterosexuals.

For example, Zhu Yunwu (2013), a master’s stunt at the PLA Nanjg Polil Amy, argu that homosexuals experience higher psychologil prsure om their fai and society and should be “provid better environments for workg, livg, and studyg. Addrsg rults of a survey distributed to male service members which 58 percent agreed that “state laws should regnize the legaly of female homosexual behavr, ” Yan (2014) nclud that such rults monstrated the need “ to rry out health tn and help [service members] tablish a rrect unrstandg of sex.

INDIAN-AMERIN GAY UPL FD NEW FORMS OF UNN AMID STIGMA

[7] Table 2 summariz fluential factors intified : Cheng Qi et al., “Attus of Servicemen toward Homosexuals and Their Servg the Milary”; Song Mi et al., “Invtigatn of Milary Medil Stunts’ Attus Toward Homosexualy and Relevant Influential Factors”; Yan Tongjun et al., “Attus of Young Che Male Servicemen Toward Homosexuals and Toward Homosexuals Servg the Milary”; Zhang Yili, et al., “Attus of Che Servicemen Toward Homosexuals Servg the Milary and Influential Factors.

THREE MEN GET MARRIED WORLD'S FIRST 3-WAY GAY WEDDG THAILAND

GAY THE PLA: CHE MILARY VIEWS ON HOMOSEXUALS SERVG THE ARMED FORC