'carl is gay'

Aaron, 8- year- old, giggled and opened his palm. There it wrote in marker pen, 'Carl is gay.' Carl is his brother, 5 years older brother. They are from a small town of only 600 people in the middle of Australia and now traveling in China with their parents and another family. Surprisingly to me, their parents even allow them to wear earrings for such early ages and continue their little argue which brother is gayer.

I'm of course not certain how much these little boys understand the meaning of homosexuality. But Will and Jack, characters on 'Will and Grace' show( I am having overload of it), are adult enough or their play writers must be for their gay characters. A well received comedy TV drama by NBC, W&G is said to be the first of its kind with homosexual leading roles.

The new issue of 'City weekend' magazine,freshly out of closet, I mean, from its publishing house in Shanghai, happens to have topics on gay scenes in Shanghai., like Eddy's, Frangipani, Pinkhome, Clubdeep gay bars to name a few.

In whole China, there are no laws on record regarding the legality of homo. In 1984, same sex seduction and various sexual behaviors with bad social influences were classified as hooliganism. In 1997, a new criminal law has this term abolished. Homo, also was deleted from Chinese classification of Mental disorder in 2001. Still, gay marriage is not recognized or protected in legal system while there's been more and more promotion and acceptance of homosexuality, just to take the magazine for instance. But, there's an unofficial ban on representing acts on TV and films. Although there are only 10 officially published gay works of literature but countless blogs appear blogs on the internet. Roughly, there are 30 million gay Chinese, among whom the number of male gays outnumbering the females.