According to Pew Research Center in 2013, 21% of the populations think the society should accept homosexuality. This number is less than the numbers compare to South Korea and Japan in East Asia.

LGBT history of China, credit

This is a timeline of the history of LGBT in mainland, China. It published in December 22, 2015 by Jack Smith in the website of TimeOut Beijing. It showed that China became homophobia since it opened Silk Road. Many new ideas came from foreigns to China, as well as homophobia. It provided a history outline of China.

This is an overview of the LGBT history of China in this archive, and it gives comparisons between the timelines from Spain and South Korea. Since it is a timeline, it gives the readers a quick idea of how Chinese people think about LGBT.

The facts of homosexuality in China, credit

This article was published in March 24, 2010 by Tom Mountford from OutRight organization of human rights for LGBT. It insisted homosexuality became legal in 1997, and removed from the list of mental illnesses in 2001. Before 1997, none of the nations could talk about homosexuals in the public, it was strictly illegal and unacceptable things. However, after the 2001, people still could not openly reveal the identity and talk about it. This article provided more information about that time regards the education, society, health, laws, and more.

I put this in my archive because it is a big fact that China legalized the homosexuality in late 20th century. It shows a great difference from other East Asia countries and western countries. Even though those countries prohibited homosexuality, there were still some resources about LGBT community at that time in online. However, Chine did not have any of the resources as I researched, which shows the strong disagreement towards LGBT community in China.

This is a video published in October 8th, 2015 by Channel4.com. It talks about a cure for homosexuality in China, even after 2001. This tells the readers that even after China removed homosexuality from list of mental illnesses, people still believe that it is a mental illness, and it should be cured. Shock Therapy is the most common way to cure the “illness”.

It is an important item in my archive to compare the reality of homosexuality in China compares to all other countries. Even though it legalized homosexuality, it is still an unnatural act in China. This is a completely different reactions from Western countries. But in some point, shared the similarity with Japan.