Oct 29, 2006Articles: Southern China university approves country's first gay student union
By VZ
(HONG KONG, CHINA) - A southern Chinese university has approved the country's first legally registered student union for gays and lesbians, a newspaper reported Saturday. The Sun Yat-sen University in Zhuhai, a city in Guangdong province, gave the union its blessing after considering the application for a month, the South China Morning Post said.
The union, called Happy Together, aims to promote AIDS education and awareness of gay issues, the paper quoted chairwoman Liao Mingzhu as saying.
The Sun Yat-sen University has a reputation for openness, the report said. In 2003, it raised a controversy by staging "The Vagina Monologues," a play with graphic sexual descriptions, the report said.
