{"id":2669,"date":"2006-12-05T10:43:58","date_gmt":"2006-12-05T02:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danwei.webfactional.com\/?p=2669"},"modified":"2006-12-05T10:43:58","modified_gmt":"2006-12-05T02:43:58","slug":"gays_in_dongdan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/internet\/gays_in_dongdan.php","title":{"rendered":"Gay cruising in Dongdan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago, Danwei <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laodanwei.org\/newspapers\/dancing_around_sensitive_issue.php\">remarked<\/a> on a <em>Beijing News<\/em> article about Dongdan Park \u2014 the capital&#8217;s best-known gay pick-up spot \u2014 that did not actually mention this well known aspect of the park.<\/p>\n<p>Not everyone is so coy. Here for example is a <a href=\"http:\/\/news.qq.com\/a\/20061130\/000280.htm\">QQ.com story about gays<\/a> and HIV testing in China that claims there are five to ten million male homosexuals in China, with 300,000 in Beijing. A China Daily article that takes its numbers from the same sources says that there are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinadaily.com.cn\/china\/2006-11\/30\/content_747500.htm\">20 million male homosexuals in China.<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, here is a short video shot by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danwei.tv\/clips\/muzi_mei_sex_blogger.php\">Muzi Mei<\/a> in Dongdan Park, in which she and a friend interview a policeman on the beat about the gay cruising scene in the park.<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE:<\/b> This video has been removed from Youtube&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/IZy4tFYiEsE\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/IZy4tFYiEsE\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago, Danwei remarked on a Beijing News article about Dongdan Park \u2014 the capital&#8217;s best-known gay pick-up spot \u2014 that did not actually mention this well known aspect of the park. Not everyone is so coy. Here &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/internet\/gays_in_dongdan.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,172,5,230,248],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-media-and-advertising","category-newspapers","category-sexuality","category-trends-and-buzz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}