China court refuses to allow gay marriage in landmark case

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

China court refuses to allow gay marriage in landmark case

Tom Phillips in Beijing
Wednesday 13 April 2016 06.52 BST

A Chinese judge has rejected a gay couple’s attempt to secure the right to marry in the country’s first same-sex marriage case.

Sun Wenlin, 27, from the central province of Hunan, had sued the civil affairs bureau in the city of Changsha for the right to marry his 37-year-old partner Hu Mingliang, a security guard.

Sun decided to take legal action after authorities refused the couple’s request to have their relationship officially recognised as a marriage last June, on their first anniversary together.

In January a court in Changsha agreed to hear their case, which activists said was the first of its kind in China.

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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/13/china-court-refuse-gay-marriage-landmark-case

[MisterP]

1. they castrated gay men until the early or mid-80s (I don't remember if it was 82, 86, or 88)