BEIJING - There may be as many as 16 million women on the Chinese mainland who aremarried to homosexual men, a leading expert has estimated.
Professor Zhang Bei-chuan at Qingdao University, an authority on AIDS and HIV, says that dueto traditional family values in China, about 90 percent of homosexual men get married becauseof pressure to conform.
"But their wives are struggling to cope and their
plight should be recognized," he said onThursday.
Xiao Yao, a 29-year-old magazine editor in Xi'an, Shaanxi province, divorced her gay husbandin 2008.
"Most gay men's wives I've known are silently suffering at the hands of husbands who couldnever love them, and like me, some even got abused by husbands who were also under greatpressure," she said.
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