Guest fountainhall Posted February 3, 2011 Posted February 3, 2011 fridae.com reports that the cover story of the latest issue of China's Sports Illustrated features openly gay sportspeople and interviews five Chinese LGBTs who represented China at international gay sports events. Queer Comrades, China's only independent long-running LGBT webcast, reports: "The Chinese edition of Sports Illustrated made sure that 2011 started off fabulously for China's LGBT community. The words 'Go Gays!' [同志，冲 啊] are on the cover of its 21 January edition, which includes a special report on international gay sports events. It's the first time a Chinese sports magazine pays full attention to world gay sports events and informs society about the relationship between LGBT and sports." http://www.fridae.com/newsfeatures/2011/01/31/10602.chinas-sports-illustrated-features-gay-sportsmanship-in-cover-story?n=sec What was originally meant to be a short report became a nine double-page story. For this to happen in China seems to be an amazing step forward. The You Tube vdo highlights some of the gay events in China last year and shows what progress is being made (although why they continue to use the word "queer" beats me). The Chinese contestant in the 2010 Mr Gay World Competition is stunning! Quote
pong Posted February 6, 2011 Posted February 6, 2011 ''queer" happens often with translations-they just pick the wrong word from a dictionary. I have also seen it labelled as ''faggots'' I guess very same explanation. If you think wider-maybe, Lao-Tse forgives, the old and perhaps by now even wisened old and superold ruling elite has got the grabs that a giant oversupply of horny young males in their early 20ies, due to their 1-child policy, needs some outlet. If the tipical Chinese ghist for making money also arises, they may even softly and secretly start promoting gay trips-first of course with the overseas infidles of states like Singapore etc. These sports-teams may be secretive fact-seeking teams to check if those markets are open for that?? Quote
Guest fountainhall Posted February 6, 2011 Posted February 6, 2011 a giant oversupply of horny young males in their early 20ies, due to their 1-child policy I hadn't thought of that. The Chinese preference for boys and the 'disappearance' of a lot of baby girls is starting to produce a major imbalance in China's demographics. According to The Times of London last year, a report commissioned within China states that by 2020 there will likely be more than 24 million men unable to find a female partner. The surplus of bachelors — known as “bare branches” — in the rural areas has been described by senior officials as a problem that could lead to a surge in crime and social instability, the ruling Communist Party’s greatest fear . . . Officials acknowledged that the introduction of ultrasound scans in the 1980s resulted in a surge of abortions of female foetuses after parents tried to ensure that their only child was a boy who could carry on the family line. That tradition is important in a society where reverence of ancestors continues to underpin the social structure and where farmers want sons. “The problem is more serious in rural areas due to the lack of a social security system,” the report said. “Ageing farmers have to rely on their offspring.” The normal birth ratio of 103-107 boys for every 100 girls began to shift in the 1980s. It rose from 108 boys in 1982 to 111 in 1990 and 116 a decade later. A report in the British Medical Journal last year . . . noted that two poorer, mainly rural provinces had the highest imbalances, with 140 boys for every 100 girls in the 1-to-4 age range. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6983716.ece Assuming 5% of any country's population is gay and so you can take a whopping 65 million out of the straight marriage stakes, doesn't really help at all. But it sure makes visiting China more interesting for gay tourists , and may well, as pong suggests, lead some entrepreneurs to develop gay tours overseas. the old and perhaps by now even wisened old and superold ruling elite I hardly think it is fair to call China's leadership "superold." In fact, few of them nowadays qualify for entrance onto the "old" category. Whether you like or dislike China's version of consumer-oriented entrepreneurial communism (can they really continue to be labelled as 'communists' nowadays?- in 32 years in Asia and 20 of them in Hong Kong, I have never yet met any Chinese who is not a capitalist at heart), I happen to think the leadership in the last 20 years has been quite remarkable. Quote
