22 Dec 2016

Watch: China’s LGBT embrace marriages of convenience

A short documentary by SBS explores how China’s LGBT community is embracing sham marriages between gay men and lesbian women.

A recent report suggests that there are 16 million Chinese women married to homosexual men.

As getting married and having children is a must in traditional Chinese culture, many gay men in the country have entered into straight marriages and kept their true sexuality hidden.

Now, a lesbian couple have launched an app called iHomo, which was designed to facilitate marriages of convenience or ‘cooperative marriages’ between gay men and lesbians. Watch the short documentary by SBS below: