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April 20, 2013
Chinese lesbian couple greets Icelandic PM with street wedding

Many passers-by don’t know how to respond but a few approach the ‘newly-weds’ for photos and to show support

A lesbian couple has held a ‘wedding’ in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou to welcome Iceland's Prime Minister Johanna Sigurdardottir and her wife.

The couple identified as Xiaoyang and Xiaoxiao went to Guangzhou’s High Street Wednesday morning (17 April) in white wedding gowns holding hands and kissing, Yang Cheng Evening News reports.

April 17, 2012
The China Vagina Monologues

Gay Star News speak to the director of a recent production of The Vagina Monologues in Shanghai about feminism and LGBT rights

A production of The Vagina Monologues in Chinese, with specially-written segments relevant to the LGBT community, played to packed audiences in Shanghai last weekend. Gay Star News speak to the director Xiao Yan about Chinese voices are calling more loudly for gay rights than for women’s rights.

Why did you decided to stage The Vagina Monologues in China?

April 10, 2012
Chinese erotic gay fiction site shut down

Founder of homoerotic fiction site imprisoned and fined, case reveals that most stories were written by young women around 20 years old

The Chinese government has shut down a website that published homoerotic fantasy stories and imprisoned and fined its founder. A surprising aspect of the case was that most of the writers of the explicit gay fiction were women around 20 years old.

The site, that was routed through a server in the US, was created in 2008 and police became aware of it in 2011. It published 1,200 homoerotic stories written by a 30-member team in Shanghai, Guangzhou and other Chinese cities. The youngest writer was a 17-year-old girl.

April 4, 2012
Same-sex kissing festival in Guangzhou

Couples smooch in public for equality in the south China city

Passersby must have thought there was something in the spring air on Beijing Road in Guangzhou, south China on Monday. Multiple same-sex couples let their passions loose in unabashed public smooches to raise awareness about gay life in China.

The ‘kissing festival’ was organised by China Pride. Three couples took part and there was no negative reactions from passersby.

February 24, 2012
Wives of gay men in China speak out about ‘tragic lives’

An online community called ‘Tong Qi’ is giving voice to the wives of gay men

Unhappy marriages between gays and women have led to questions about the martial laws in mainland China.

In the online community called Tong Qi, as the wife of any gay man is called in Mandarin, an article seeking help has gone viral, reported Guangzhou Daily .