https://www.scmp.com/rss/506701/feed Lucetta Kam is associate professor in the Department of Humanities and Creative Writing at Hong Kong Baptist University. Her research interests include queer migration, tongzhi communities and culture in China and Hong Kong, and East Asian queer popular culture. She is the author of Shanghai Lalas: Female Tongzhi Communities and Politics in Urban China. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com The Chinese government has rejected the LGBT community’s demand for the legalisation of same-sex marriage when the country’s parliament adopted China’s first civil code in May. This is a new and clear condemnation of same-sex marriage rights by the state in the two-decade long struggle in China. The fight started officially in 2001 when Li Yinhe, an outspoken sociologist in Beijing, lobbied for same-sex marriage during the annual parliamentary meetings. Homosexuality was removed from the... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3094520/why-struggle-same-sex-marriage-china-will-continue-despite-civil?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3094520/why-struggle-same-sex-marriage-china-will-continue-despite-civil?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 26 Jul 2020 01:00:10 +0000