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04-27-2016, 12:47 PM
These Shanghai men gorgeously took the stage in a cross-dressing contest
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In olden China, the most likely place you'd find cross-dressing would probably be the theatre, where men played female roles because women were **t allowed on stage.
Today, many Chinese people continue to maintain traditional attitudes against LGBT visibility,*despite homo***uality becoming decriminalised in the country in 1997.*
SEE ALSO: Court rules against couple in China's first same-*** marriage case (http://mashable.com/2016/04/13/china-same-***-marriages-case/?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=)
Last Friday, 20 contestants defied societal **rms and took part in a*cross-dressing competition (http://www.france24.com/en/20160427-walk-wild-side-china-cross-dressing-contest)*held at Icon Club in Shanghai.
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In olden China, the most likely place you'd find cross-dressing would probably be the theatre, where men played female roles because women were **t allowed on stage.
Today, many Chinese people continue to maintain traditional attitudes against LGBT visibility,*despite homo***uality becoming decriminalised in the country in 1997.*
SEE ALSO: Court rules against couple in China's first same-*** marriage case (http://mashable.com/2016/04/13/china-same-***-marriages-case/?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=)
Last Friday, 20 contestants defied societal **rms and took part in a*cross-dressing competition (http://www.france24.com/en/20160427-walk-wild-side-china-cross-dressing-contest)*held at Icon Club in Shanghai.
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