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Malsol · Joined: 06 Mar 2006 Posts: 1976 Location: Lanzhou

Recent Articles in China Daily

Campus homosexual club in spotlight ( 06/11/16 19:26:50 )
Homosexuality, often a taboo subject in China, has been in the headlines since a homosexual student group became a registered club at Zhongshan University.

Help-line for lesbians opens in Shanghai ( 06/11/23 06:39:56 )
Lesbians in Shanghai can get psychological help and support from a new hotline that opened this week, the first on the Chinese mainland dedicated to their concerns.

Lesbian hotline ready for launch ( 06/11/11 09:02:14 )
After launching China's fi rst free hotline for gay men, the Chiheng Foundation in Shanghai will offer a similar service later this month for lesbians.

Beijing opens nation's first free clinic for gays ( 06/11/09 07:04:33 )
Beijing's first clinic for gay people, also China's first to provide free services, opened Wednesday, providing checkups for all sexually transmitted diseases.

Talking straight ( 06/08/12 05:49:23 )
"I must have been the only fully dressed man to ever hang out in a gay sauna," laughs Wang Ming. "No wonder everyone stared at me." Wang can only laugh when he recalls the unique challenges he faced as a timid heterosexual man entering the baffling world of gay men. To break the ice, the bespectacled young man from the Yunnan provincial health education institute began playing chess at the sauna, handing out pamphlets and condoms to curious onlookers during breaks.

Can homosexual adopt children in China? ( 06/05/30 16:15:46 )

New hotline to offer help to gay people ( 06/05/11 06:28:03 )
GUANGZHOU: The first national free hotline offering advice to gay people on a range of subjects has been launched.

Gay volunteers promote safe sex in capital ( 06/03/22 05:58:58 )
Packed with people late at night, it seems like any other bar in Beijing.

englishgibson · Joined: 09 Mar 2005 Posts: 4345

Leon, morals are so ambiguous, if one says he/she wants me to follow them. Connecting any gay issues to immorality is rather prejudicial and highly subjective to discussions.
I understand that different countries have different moral standards. And, if one foreigner wished to learn all those standards he/she would've to live there for longer period of time, or one would've to study extensively on those morals. In any case, morals to me are a highly subjective matter anywhere in the world.

Malsol · Joined: 06 Mar 2006 Posts: 1976 Location: Lanzhou

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/pacnews/a/2006/11/25/chinagay25.DTL

Editor's Note: Homosexuality has gained some acceptance in metropolitan cities like Shanghai and Beijing. But in rural China, as one young man explains, being gay is still a secret he must keep from his family.

The prestigious Fudan University in Shanghai held China's first academic course in homosexuality last year, signaling the beginning of acceptance from both the Chinese government and China's major urban areas.

"I cannot tell them," he explains. "My life, my money, my school -- it is all from my family. I have no job. My father gives me everything. When I get a job and can live on my own, then, I think I must tell them. I want to tell them."

Leon Purvis · Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2006 3:40 am Post subject:

As in all classroom discussions, one should use common sense when discussing this subject. I think that one should know all -- or at least some--of the issues involved and be able to provide informed responses.

My common sense tells me to stay away from such discussions because I cannot provide informed responses. For me, any topics involving homosexuality are about as familiar to me as discussions about nuclear science. I've heard of it, and I've seen some nuclear power plants, and I have a vague idea of how nuclear power plants produce electricity, but I really can't engage in an informed conversation about the matter.

That is not to say that others can't.

Malsol · Joined: 06 Mar 2006 Posts: 1976 Location: Lanzhou

Long ai gu · Joined: 22 Oct 2004 Posts: 135

Gay means happy

Long ai gu · Joined: 22 Oct 2004 Posts: 135

If you stop your students from speaking about any subject in class to me you are nothing but a coward. It was not cowardice that granted you the freedom of speech you have in your own country, it was the bravery of those before you who died and walked into the gun. Most of us cannot fathom what it's like to be a citizen of a society that oppresses the freedom of speech though we may be living in one. These people by discussing such topics as homosexuality or religion etc. are doing so because they can't discuss them with their Chinese teachers or most people in their society. Grant them the freedom that you know, however brief it may be....God Bless America!!!! And blame the Canadians.. This is the word of the lord, blessed be to God.

Malsol · Joined: 06 Mar 2006 Posts: 1976 Location: Lanzhou

cj750 · Joined: 27 Apr 2004 Posts: 3081 Location: Beijing

sheeba · Joined: 17 Jun 2004 Posts: 1123

cj750 · Joined: 27 Apr 2004 Posts: 3081 Location: Beijing

don't laugh ...it happen to me...

OK just kidding..

sheeba · Joined: 17 Jun 2004 Posts: 1123

Bums against the wall Smile

Long ai gu · Joined: 22 Oct 2004 Posts: 135

I would never stop them from discussing what a f>a<g the FT was or any other subject. By the way I have a beautiful baby son in China it was an accident the condom broke.

Long ai gu · Joined: 22 Oct 2004 Posts: 135

CJ750 I attacked you once in a previous thread and I just want to say that I'm sorry for doing this and i thought you were suggesting that I was a f,a,g (a cigarette of course) look at how wrong I can be.

Long ai gu · Joined: 22 Oct 2004 Posts: 135

Malsol if you use the word are you must pluralize the word rule. Please tell me of the rule(s) we MUST follow, I do not know of them.