Apr 09, 2007Quickie Link: Gay TV show debuts online
By vanrozenheim
(China) - For singer and bar-owner, Qiao Qiao, talking about her sexuality live on an Internet broadcast accessible to millions of people was easier than telling her parents that she was a lesbian. Qiao Qiao was the first guest on "Tongxing Xianglian," China's first gay chat show, an interactive online forum hosted by gay presenters. With the title a loose play on words of a Chinese idiom "people with the same afflictions sympathize with each other," the weekly 12-episode show, produced by PhoenixTV.com, aims to open minds in a country where homosexuality was listed as a mental illness until 2001.
