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| Lesbian Couple |
U.S. Supreme Court's ruling last week
in favour of same-sex marriage is causing other countries to push for the same.
Yesterday, Teresa Xu and Li TingTing had a
political, unofficial ceremony in Beijing as a bid for the legalization of
same-sex marriage in China.
Gay marriage is not legalized in
China and homosexuality is still viewed as
a taboo by many Chinese people.
In fact, for many years, being gay was considered a
mental illness by the national Chinese psychiatric association, this stopped in
2001.
One of the brides, Li TingTing, is
an activist; she was arrested with four other feminist activists in Beijing on
International Women's Day
She has also been arrested for planning to hand out stickers that
called on the police to take further actions against sexual harassment.
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