Gay university
students in Shanghai afraid to attend gay studies course

Although more than 110 undergraduate students at Fudan University in Shanghai, China, crowded into a classroom to hear a lecture on homosexuality and AIDS prevention, no gay students turned out for fear of being outed. The organizer of the lecture at the elite university personally invited several gay students to attend, but concern over their classmates finding out about their sexual orientation prevented them from showing up, Agence France-Press reports, citing a report in the local Shanghai Youth Daily. Until 2001 homosexuality was officially considered a mental disorder in China. (The Advocate)