Thursday, 28 January 2016

The gay couple fighting for the right to marry in China


Sun Wenlin has known he was gay since he was 12.

He came out to parents and friends two years later. Now 27, he met his partner Hu Mingliang, a security guard, in 2014.

Inspired by the 2014 British movie "Pride," Sun decided the time was right to settle down with Hu, whom he met online.

"After we saw the movie, I asked him, 'Shall we get married?' He said: 'Yes. Let's.'"

On June, 23, 2015 -- their one-year anniversary and three days before the U.S. Supreme Court's decision toextend same-sex marriage rights across all 50 states -- the couple went to their local registry office in southern China's Hunan Province and tried to officially tie the knot.

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