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Global News

Added on: 06/24/2021

Cultural Closet: It’s a challenge for LGBT Asians to come out to relatives in their homelands

06/24/2021

Xiukui Ji, a then-22-year old Chinese international student at the University of Arizona, was on the phone with his sister when he told her, “Oh, by the…

Global News

Added on: 06/22/2021

At Shanghai Job Fair, Advocates Call for More LGBT Inclusion

06/22/2021

SHANGHAI — Lauren Qiang used to live a double life: She pretended to be straight at home but wasn’t worried about her sexual orientation while at work….

Global News

Added on: 06/10/2021

Equality watchdog, LGBT activists hit back at pro-Beijing lawmakers’ attacks on Gay Games

06/10/2021

LGBT activists and the Equal Opportunities Commission have lambasted pro-Beijing lawmakers for opposing the 2022 Gay Games. The event promotes values of equality, inclusion and diversity, and…

Global News

Added on: 06/08/2021

Lesbian couple in China sues over hetero-only ‘couples discount’

06/07/2021

It’s certainly not Pride month in China. A lesbian couple is suing a zoo in Guangzhou as well as the tourism booking service Ctrip after they were…

Global News

Added on: 05/28/2021

Dior chooses Chinese transgender star as an ambassador for its new fragrance campaign

05/27/2021

Dior, the French house owned by LVMH, the largest luxury group in the world, is collaborating with China’s transgender celebrity Jin Xing for a campaign centred on…

Global News

Added on: 04/24/2021

Together for 50 years, a lawsuit reminds China that love and marriage are very different things

04/22/2021

After more than 50 years of living with her partner, a Chinese lesbian woman in her late 70s faced a lawsuit from her partner’s family to return…

Global News

Added on: 04/22/2021

LGBT Couples Not Entitled to Full Property Rights, Court Rules

05/21/2021

A court’s recent ruling that same-sex couples aren’t entitled to the same property rights as married heterosexual couples has once again highlighted the legal predicaments many LGBT…

Global News

Added on: 04/21/2021

Owner of China’s biggest gay dating app enters online healthcare business focusing on men’s health

04/21/2021

BlueCity Holdings, owner of China’s biggest gay dating app, Blued, announced on Tuesday that He Health, the brand’s health service platform for men, has officially obtained an…

Global News

Added on: 04/14/2021

The Man on a Mission to Legalize Same-Sex Marriage in China

04/13/2021

The wedding in the spring of 2016 was unlike any China had ever witnessed — two men stood shoulder to shoulder in matching purple tuxedos, professing love…

World Voices

Added on: 04/06/2021

Yi Yang: Judicial Activist, Program Officer – LGBT Rights Advocacy, China

Xong Xhang

Alturi Contributor

What is it like to be LGBTIQ+ in China? Reflecting on the LGBTIQ+ situation in China, Yi outlined his personal experiences as a gay man, and the…

Global News

Added on: 04/01/2021

‘Beautiful and fierce’: Voguing balls let LGBT Chinese shine

03/31/2021

Leather, glitter, stilettos and a strut — voguing, the underground dance phenomenon, has seized Beijing and given China’s LGBT community a “playground” to celebrate their identities. Sashaying…

Global News

Added on: 03/30/2021

Popular young Chinese internet celebrity announces she is transgender

03/29/2021

Abbily, a popular 19-year-old internet celebrity has attracted attention and support – by announcing that she is transgender. “Now, I’m officially a girl…” the star wrote on…

Global News

Added on: 03/28/2021

Legal experts launch China’s first non-profit foundation dedicated to offering legal aid to LGBTQ community

3/17/21

China’s first non-profit foundation dedicated to training legal talents and offering legal aid to the LGBTQ community was launched on Tuesday by three Chinese lawyers and a…

Global News

Added on: 03/19/2021

‘Deal with it’, school in China tells gay high school student bullied and sexually assaulted for months

03/18/2021

A gay teenager was subjected to months of emotional and physical bullying, including repeated instances of sexual assault, at a school in China. In the most severe…

Global News

Added on: 03/11/2021

China proposes teaching masculinity to boys as state is alarmed by changing gender roles

03/05/2021

No one invited Bu Yunhao to be in their group for the annual class trip. The other fifth graders at Shanghai Shangde Experimental School made fun of…

Global News

Added on: 03/03/2021

Homosexuality can still be called a mental disorder in China, court rules

03/02/2021

A court in China‘s eastern Jiangsu province has ruled in favour of a publisher that described homosexuality as a “psychological disorder” in a university textbook. The Suyu…

Global News

Added on: 03/02/2021

Homosexuality can be called a mental disorder, Chinese court rules; LGBT community disappointed

03/01/2021

A Chinese court has upheld a ruling that a textbook description of homosexuality as “a psychological disorder” was not a factual error but merely an “academic view”….

Global News

Added on: 02/13/2021

BlueCity Launches Campaign for Greater LGBTQ Acceptance Among Families in China during Chinese New Year

2/12/21

BlueCity, a world-leading LGBTQ community platform providing a full suite of services to foster connections and enhance the well-being of the LGBTQ community, launch the “Let Love…

Global News

Added on: 01/31/2021

How China’s ‘gay capital’ is resisting closure

1/30/21

It’s Saturday night at the HUNK club in Chengdu and men in gold lycra shorts and black boots dance on stage. They wear kimonos, in an apparent…

Global News

Added on: 01/29/2021

His School Expelled Him Over an LGBT Speech. Now He’s Speaking Out.

01/28/2021

A student has accused his former vocational school of expelling him over a speech he gave on gay rights more than a year ago, highlighting the challenges…

Global News

Added on: 01/23/2021

Acclaimed chef, LGBT advocate leads social, culinary change in Hong Kong

01/23/2021

May Chow may be the most controversial — and visible — chef in Hong Kong: an acclaimed female restaurateur who is also a symbol of change for…

Global News

Added on: 01/19/2021

Boys’ love brings edgy drama to China, and a backlash

01/18/2021

For years, Chinese television dramas were the poor cousins of Japanese, Korean and Taiwanese soap operas. A 2018 Chinese remake of the Taiwanese show Meteor Garden is…

Global News

Added on: 01/12/2021

The ex-cop behind China’s largest gay dating app

01/10/2021

Browsing the internet as a young policeman in China, Ma Baoli recalls the sheer volume of web pages telling him he was a pervert, diseased and in…

Global News

Added on: 01/09/2021

No need to feel inferior’: China dating app helps raise awareness of LGBT issues

1/8/21

Browsing the internet as a young policeman in China, Ma Baoli recalls the sheer volume of web pages telling him he was a pervert, diseased and in…

Global News

Added on: 12/31/2020

Chengdu: China’s permissive ‘gay capital’ refusing to fold

12/30/2020

It’s Saturday night at the HUNK club in Chengdu and men in gold lycra shorts and black boots dance on stage. They wear kimonos, in an apparent…

Global News

Added on: 12/30/2020

Transgender people in China turning to grey market for hormones

12/29/2020

“In China, the channel is hidden,” he tells Sky News. Buying and administering unapproved drugs is risky. Unscrupulous dealers can substitute safe substances for animal hormones. Transgender…

Global News

Added on: 12/23/2020

Wuhan’s vogue dancers embrace new freedom as COVID-19 anniversary nears

12/22/2020

WUHAN, China (Reuters) – In a converted factory building in downtown Wuhan, 22-year-old Xiong Feng, who goes by the name Daiki, struts and spins in a black…

Global News

Added on: 12/22/2020

Beijing LGBT Center holds training forum for graduate students to work as better consulting psychologists

12/20/2020

The Beijing LGBT Center held a workshop on Thursday at Beijing Normal University for more than 100 graduate students majoring in consulting psychology so that these future…

Global News

Added on: 12/17/2020

Homophobia Is Not an Asian Value. It’s Time for the East to Reconnect to Its Own Traditions of Tolerance

12/17/2020

Tan Seng Kee, a 62-year-old retired doctor and LGBTQ+ activist, recently filed a motion in Singapore’s High Court, asking it to order the city-state’s cabinet to revoke…

Global News

Added on: 12/08/2020

China’s transgender people too scared to come out like Elliot Page – ‘You become a freak’

12/07/2020

When Juno star Elliot Page, known as Ellen Page until December, came out as transgender, his social media pages were instantly filled with blessings and love from…