November 2009
“A Chinese city with one of the nation’s highest rates of AIDS has opened a government-funded gay bar in an outreach effort that has stirred debate over the use of taxpayers’ money. […] Founder Zhang Jianbo hopes that the bar will be a public gathering place for gay men, especially from rural villages, who used to gather in a patch of woods near the historic town. The bar offers sex education and free condoms, in addition to companionship, Zhang said in an interview with the newspaper. Though funded by the government, the bar is staffed by volunteers from a local non-government organization that works to prevent AIDS.”
—China city government opens gay bar to fight AIDS | Reuters (via sexartandpolitics)
