Wednesday, August 17, 2005

Shanghai University to Offer China's First Homosexuality Course

(Link) It will be preceeded by a light soup and arugula salad, followed by tiramisu with brandy and cigars in the drawing room afterward.

6 comments:

LNewsEditor said...

JIC Post:
From Chicago Tribune

SHANGHAI, CHINA -- A university in Shanghai is offering China's first class on homosexuality and gay culture, and several hundred students have applied for the 100 openings, a professor in charge of the course said Tuesday.

Professor Sun Zhongxin, one of the course's instructors at the prestigious Fudan University, said its introduction resulted from strong interest among undergraduates.

"I used to teach gender study for undergraduates and found they were very interested in the topic of homosexuality," Sun said.

The class is full, but "more students are still applying," Sun said.

The course aims to break down widespread ignorance and prejudice against gays in China, another instructor, Gao Yanning, was quoted as saying by the Shanghai Daily paper.

Patti said...

You might want to stop accepting anonymous posts to prevent the blog spam that's begun here...

LNewsEditor said...

Indeed, Miz Patti! Blog spammers are annoying as hell and we're not gonna take it anymore. No more anonymous postings, kids.

LNewsEditor said...

So have you done that much-needed vacation yet, Patti? And if so, please tell me you didn't break down and use that AOHell CD...

Patti said...

Vacation was great - gotta post my pics this weekend. ::hanging head in shame:: yes, I did use it - but to little avail as my laptop is a virtual dinosaur...no, wait, "virtual" would imply an actual working CPU. Just a dinosaur - old, slow, fossilized Compaq (pre-HP). I gave up after only a few tries. And for my next trick...I'll give my best irate customer impersonation to get trial-AOL cancelled before I get charged! Keep up the great posting!

LNewsEditor said...

Best way to kill off your free AOHell? Call their fraud hotline at 1-800-307-7969 and claim somebody stole your credit card. Be sure to sniffle and sob, and be very grateful that they're "helping you put your life back together..." ;-)