How China is legally recognising same-sex couples, but not empowering them
- Written by Xu Chen, PhD candidate; sessional academic, Queensland University of Technology
Same-sex couples aren't allowed to get married, but have legal guardianship rights. Shutterstock
Homosexuality has been a controversial topic across the legal and moral domains in China. Homosexual acts were officially decriminalised in 1997, but Chinese laws have yet to properly recognise or protect same-sex couples in the forms of marriage or de...
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