Comments on: China: Attitude Towards Homosexuality http://globalvoicesonline.org/2008/06/19/china-attitude-towards-homosexuality/ The world is talking. Are you listening? Sun, 29 Nov 2009 14:49:29 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: chan http://globalvoicesonline.org/2008/06/19/china-attitude-towards-homosexuality/comment-page-1/#comment-1475803 chan Sat, 21 Jun 2008 00:54:36 +0000 http://globalvoicesonline.org/?p=45718#comment-1475803 They are also human beings, so human right & freedom They are also human beings, so human right & freedom

]]> By: Knights http://globalvoicesonline.org/2008/06/19/china-attitude-towards-homosexuality/comment-page-1/#comment-1475612 Knights Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:38:24 +0000 http://globalvoicesonline.org/?p=45718#comment-1475612 Well we have to respect people regardless of their race, nationality, ethnicity, religion, gender etc Well we have to respect people regardless of their
race, nationality, ethnicity, religion, gender etc

]]> By: Athena http://globalvoicesonline.org/2008/06/19/china-attitude-towards-homosexuality/comment-page-1/#comment-1475434 Athena Fri, 20 Jun 2008 01:00:44 +0000 http://globalvoicesonline.org/?p=45718#comment-1475434 I don't actually live in China, but I'm from a Chinese background and visit Hong Kong quite regularly. I don't know how accurate it is in reflecting China, but it does resonate a lot with what my mother said to me almost exactly a year ago: "We [Chinese] might seem to be less accepting, but I think we sometimes try harder [to understand/accept/cope]." It was just after we came home from a formal dinner with the elementary graduating class, who were predominantly caucasian, and perhaps more specifically with WASP-y influences. For all the rights that queer communities have won in Canada, the systemic alienation that entire night was rather suffocating. I had never mentioned anything either - it was just that I had worn a tux. I don’t actually live in China, but I’m from a Chinese background and visit Hong Kong quite regularly. I don’t know how accurate it is in reflecting China, but it does resonate a lot with what my mother said to me almost exactly a year ago: “We [Chinese] might seem to be less accepting, but I think we sometimes try harder [to understand/accept/cope].”

It was just after we came home from a formal dinner with the elementary graduating class, who were predominantly caucasian, and perhaps more specifically with WASP-y influences. For all the rights that queer communities have won in Canada, the systemic alienation that entire night was rather suffocating. I had never mentioned anything either – it was just that I had worn a tux.

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