Activists hopeful Olympic attention will aid their cause - via the Washington Blade
Gay activists in China are hoping to use the international attention from this summer’s Olympic Games in Beijing to showcase their fight for greater acceptance.
One such effort from a gay group involves a Beijing exhibition displaying 10,000 petition signatures from Chinese citizens who support the legal recognition of same-sex marriage. The signatures are written in Chinese characters on brightly colored banners and notebooks and are showcased prominently in an exhibition room.
Bin Xu, a lesbian and head of the Chinese gay advocacy group known as Common Language, said her organization staged the exhibition with other groups in China.
“These signatures visibly demonstrate that love and commitment are values we all share and it is our hope the government will legally recognize same-sex couples,” she said in a phone interview with the Blade from China.
The display made its debut March 23 at a newly opened gay community center in Beijing. Xu called the center “the first of its kind in China” and said the center was opened to the public on the same day that Common Language launched its signature campaign.
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