Homosexuality in China

[pez]

I've thrown my copy of Metro away after finished reading it this morning, but there was brief item on it which I can't find on BBC News. It talked about a university in Shanghai now offering a course that looks into homosexuality, and they are hoping this will make people have better understanding of it. Several hundred people have applied for the 100 spaces.

For a country that had classified homosexuality as a mental illness until 4 years ago, doesn't this sound like a giant leap forward?

I should go pick up another copy of the paper later and look at the details.

[edit] found it.

Comments

[chinawolf.livejournal.com]

My thoughts exactly. Will probably post about it later, with the subject line "Sometimes, I really do love China."

http://www.livejournal.com/users/danwei/154609.html

[yuki-scorpio.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't say I love the country... the change indicates that their original approach was wrong, afterall. Still, it's good stuff.

And thanks for the link! =D

[myth720.livejournal.com]

but homosexuality was not always considered that way hm? this is really interesting.

[yuki-scorpio.livejournal.com]

....work filtered the link out because of "nudity". -_- I'll check it out when i'm home :)

[myth720.livejournal.com]

nudity? o_O
theres no nudity in the site... ok there are nude art pictures, but you know those old asian artistic drawings... its not really nudity ^^;;

ah well, that entire site makes an interesting read. history of male love

[sinistera.livejournal.com]

Now that's my city. *struts around proudly*

[vicky-guu-sama.livejournal.com]

actually i know a few gay shanghainese, in Shanghai,so they say they are much more open about homosexuality than other province, roughly equivelent to the HK level.