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Organisers received thousands of photos and messages of encouragement to Chinese gays and lesbians from members of the public in all corners of China.

What was to be China's first gay pageant was shut down by the police an hour before it the event was due to start. Fridae's Beijing correspondent Dinah Gardner reports.

A lesbian couple in Beijing who are looking to conceive with sperm from a donor shares with Dinah Gardner their hopes and challenges.

China may be leading in the gold medals tally in the Beijing Olympics but it's not doing too well in the Olympic hottie table, as Fridae's Beijing correspondent Dinah Gardner finds out.

Heading to Beijing to enjoy the sport-filled three weeks or so of frenzy? Fridae's Beijing correspondent Dinah Gardner shows you where to eat, sleep, shop and party.

Fridae's Beijing correspondent Dinah Gardner caught up with arguably the most prolific lesbian feminist filmmaker in the history of cinema, Barbara Hammer who was in town for a screening of several of her over 80 experimental shorts, videos and features.

Following recent raids and arrests at saunas, clubs and cruising spots, China's best known AIDS activist Wan Yanhai who circulated reports earlier this week about the government's crackdown tells Fridae's Beijing correspondent Dinah Gardner about the local situation.

Changing the world might take more than 5,000 euros. But it's a start for Beijing-based lesbian group Common Language, the prize winner of the Mama Cash awards.

What's next for parents? Increasingly in China, parents of gay children are not only accepting their sexuality but trying to help other families in the same situation support each other, Dinah Gardner reports.

What makes a pair of underpants gay? They stay up all night, walk with a slight mince, get on well with your mother and know all the lines from Guys and Dolls? Dinah Garner checks out jockstraps and other forms of support at a store near Beijing's iconic Forbidden City.