With a rapidly changing social landscape, China's Shanghai and Beijing are seeing more gay-friendly resources and establishments being set up. Fridae's Dinah Gardner recaps the top gay related news deadlines in China, checks out the new gay establishments/resources and talks to three people to find out their hopes for their community in 2007.
We've all heard the old joke about lesbians and U-Hauls on the second date could that be one of the chief reasons for the dismal number of lesbian attendees at the recent Nation party in Phuket and the lack of lesbian places compared to numerous gay male ones even in major cities? Dinah Gardner ruminates.
Sultry sex symbol Angelina Jolie is said to be almost every dyke's wet dream, but her heartthrob of a husband Brad Pitt is too an object of dyke desire. Dinah Gardner finds out why some lesbians dig men like Brad, Johnny Depp, Wang Li Hom and Takeshi Kaneshiro.
Fan Wu, the author of February Flowers, tells Fridae's Dinah Gardner about her new book which charts the relationship between two very different university girls against the backdrop of the Chinese Cultural Revolution where sex education and discussion was virtually non-existent.
China's first out lesbian artist, who also operates Beijing's longest-running dyke bar, has released her first single "Ai bu fen" (爱不分) along with a music video depicting two women in love.
In this Read My Lips column, Dinah Gardner looks at the different but similar butch-femme-andro labels used in lesbian communities in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand and the United States.
Rumoured to be a lesbian, 21-year-old Li Yuchun has become one of the most popular figures in China after winning an American Idol-style TV singing contest. Beijing-based Dinah Gardner ponders the importance of lesbian role models and how few of them there are in Asia.
Are gay men the only ones who watch gay porn? Apparently not, some lesbians are openly embracing this genre of erotica much to the dismay of other lesbians. Dinah Gardner wonders if lesbians are put off because of the belief that as dykes "we owe it to ourselves to spurn cock/sperm."
Beijing-based Dinah Gardner chronicles her adventures in trying to acquire a sex toy or two in Beijing and on the Net, and examines the myths of lesbian strap-on sex in the second installment of her Read my lips column.
Are you justified in having nagging suspicions that your partner would leave you for someone of the opposite sex? Beijing-based Dinah Gardner mulls over some reasons why one might fear dating bisexuals in a new monthly column "Read my lips."
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