Shanghai Pride: China Gay Pride Festival Its First Ever

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By Emily Rauhala | GlobalPost

HONG KONG -- If the 2008 Olympic Games was Beijing's coming-out party, last week it was finally Shanghai's turn. The city of 20 million held the country's first ever gay pride festival.

Shanghai Pride featured seven days of film screenings, plays and panel discussions capped, on June 13, by a blowout bash. There were drag shows, drumming and (symbolic) same-sex weddings. But there was no parade. Public gatherings are verboten, and organizers decided it wasn't worth the risk.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/15/shanghai-pride-china-gay_n_215785.html

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Wow...

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1. My Chinese friend said that China is much much better

than it has been in the past.

It is good to see Gay Pride in China and it seems they got along just fine without a parade.

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