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鈥淐oming 成人快手鈥: Being Gay at Chinese New Year

It鈥檚 Chinese New Year week, and that means the world鈥檚 largest annual human migration with around 2.8 billion trips being made by Chinese students, migrant workers and office employees who trek thousands of miles to spend the holiday with their families. But not everyone is welcome home.

This year a video called Coming 成人快手 has been trending in China and across the world. It asks parents to welcome their gay children home for the holidays and encourages families to accept homosexuality. It was created by gay rights activists PFLAG in China has had millions of views. 成人快手 trending speaks to the man behind the video about being gay in China, and finds out why his videos about homosexuality have in the past been be taken offline.

(Photo: Coming 成人快手, used with permission. Credit to: Ah Qiang/ PFLAG)

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