LGBT activists in Hunan province made a small but impressive step forward for equality this week, holding Changsha’s first ever gay pride event.

While the number of attendees was slight, and Changsha isn’t going to be challenging Shanghai or Taipei for the pink yuan any time soon, that the demonstration was approved by the Changsha security services is a heartening sign of the increasing acceptance of homosexual and transexual rights in a country that only declassified homosexuality as a mental illness in 2001.

[Via: BBS]



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