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China publishes first report on homosexuality

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EAST-ASIA-INTEL.COM
Wednesday, February 15, 2006

China's communist government last week published a report on homosexuality, which it calls "MSM," for men having sex with men.

The Beijing News said the report, China's first on the subject, was a survey of sex and self-identity of male homosexuals based on 400 interviews and case studies.

The report said homosexuals are a high-risk group that contributed to China's official total of 75,000 new HIV infections last year.

"It offers a look into the feelings, identity and expression of the gay group amid different social and cultural backgrounds," said Pan Suiming, director of Sexual Sociology Institute at the People's University of China in the report's preface.

Scholar and writer Tong Ge wrote the 650,000-word report with support from the Ford Foundation. It has 15 chapters, including a comparison of attitudes towards MSM between Chinese and Western societies, aesthetics in MSM, and MSM group and marriage with the opposite sex.

The report said China has developed a more open attitude toward homosexuality. Fudan University now offers China's first course on homosexuality and the first homosexual cultural festival was held in Beijing in December.


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