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I so loved the Korean video, nearly made me cry, so emtional I got!

I so loved the Korean video, nearly made me cry, so emtional I got!

I believe the correct term is survey, rather than census. The usage of census is not a sampling of a group, but rather a collection of specific info from an entire group or count of an entire group ( ie. Population census). And I'd point out that online survey will have significantly lower validity than random survey results. What I'm most curious about is what "stereotypes" are being referred to that said data will somehow displace... Yeah, I know; I'm a picky little prick, but somebody has to be...

i missed. Wish you all have great time.

99% of the Chinese gays around me succumb to the pressures of family, friends and colleagues to marry, have a kid and live unhappily ever after... Let's just hope this changes soon!

it is heartening to hear about these events to fight homophobia and discriminations and i hope this fight will end soon Kirk http://sexytenga.wordpress.com/

Wow, I might go there and have a look. 1st time...

I dont live in Shanghai but i really hope i can be there, i wanna say im proud of being gay

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Congratulations to HK people. Lets hope HK will allow same sex marriage someday soon. Keep fighting is the only way to break through the barriers.

You've got that one right, slingtown. Singapore is, unfortunately, governed by people who're full of horseshit - anything is ok or not ok that keeps them in power.

It is rare that I read a legal judgment so reasoned, logical and humane in its conclusion. Kudos to the four judges who voted to affirm the right of post-operative transsexuals to marry. I hope these same judges will one day apply the same sense if and when asked to decide regarding same-sex marriage. On a related note, it makes me wonder how Singapore can view transsexualism, transsexual marriage rights as being inherently different to homosexuality and homosexual rights, marriage or otherwise. Contradictions. So human.

The article and the related articles linked are very informative , educated and like eye opener.As i know ,read in chinese and talk with my straight friends,homosexuality in china has been wide spread or at least tolarent in the society since she had the record of history.It was not considered an issue of human right,but people just practice it either for fun or for prestige as refered to.In the end, when they come of age they get married and give birth to the next bloodline,and it seems no one cares about it . one question lingering for long is how come the hypocritic started to use it against the sexuality? when is the culture tilted toward the immorality of smae sex hehaviors ,although people still act it, and why? They seem not conviencing to me yet.

Great story...

Insert something and then stick your dick in there? hmm. Personally I think it make it like a mechanical like medical procedure. Personally it would turn me off completely, whether I was a top or a bottom

Hardy2, it would be more correct- in the English context- to say the "rot" set in under Henry VIII: who accused monks, among others, of the sin of sodomy. This was one of the means he used to disolve the monasteries and get his hands on the money and lands. Capital punishment remained on the books, but juries were reluctant to convict- because of the death penalty, until the late nineteenth cenutry; when the law was "reformed" by reducing the penalities and conversly increasing the convictions.

I agree with hardy2 too! It was not till the 19th century that the world went wacko over this. What had been normal and understood for thousands of years was suddenly attacked by governments and religions. Just go to various areas of the United States and you will see people with a lot of religion and little intellect, talking endlessly about the sins of homosexuals. Governments, religions,and peoples were quite comfortable with it all till that period in the 1850's. The repressive Victorians and their hidden pleasures. Remember the very strong influence of England in China at that time. This changed China so, basically leading in time to the collapse of the Monarchy in 1911. So China is mending its ways, I just wish the USA could do as good a job. There are states in the USA that are controlled by inbred hillbillies who take every word in the bible as truth. Except all the stuff they do not care to read like Shellfish, slaves, murder, torture, and of course treating women like cattle. So they see gays as the devil incarnate. Don't you just sense a little envy there? hmmmm? So governments and religions have done their job. Now we are fighting back to have our rightful place at the table of human dignity. The Ancients understood so much more than we do...We will never be on an intellectual par with them. What a joy it must have been then.

I find it interesting that the history of same-sex love in China is not very different from what it was in the West, perhaps human nature is just that, a human phenomenon, the same universally The Christian church in the West even encouraged same-sex love among its clergy in different periods to avoid financial claims from the progeny of heterosexual love. Saint Aelred of Rievaulx, a high-ranking English Cistercian abbot of the 12th century, had a male lover in his monastery, and wrote a treatise on the subject. In Christian circles he was noted for his sanctity and scholarship. I think the contemporary difficulty with same-sex relationships began in the 19th century when sex itself became a public moral issue, and synonimous with identity and other debated issues.

I agree that absfit made a silly statement but I'm wondering why he is accused of homophobic self loathing just because he didn't publish his own image here. That doesn't make sense either.

Daophos are you the "Nazi" poofer, I mean proofer for the readers??? You got way to much time on your hands. Get a life or get a job proofreading. Don't try to put down people, be positive!!!