title: "Under the Same Quilt": The Paradoxes of Sex Between Men in the Cultural Revolution.
abstract: This article describes the paradoxes experienced by homosexual men during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Interviews with 31 elderly Chinese gay men were carried out in four cities in China in 2011. Although homosexual men were terribly persecuted, chaotic situations and dislocations of youth from their families provided young homosexual men with a remarkable degree of personal freedom and the opportunity to explore same-sex relations. Analysis of this seemingly contradictory conflation of persecution and freedom will allow us to explore the conditions and effects of the coming of age of homosexual men in a unique epoch in Chinese history.
authors.affiliation: a School of Public Health and Community Medicine , University of New South Wales , Sydney , Australia.
authors.forename: Heather
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Worth
authors.affiliation: b Public Health Research Center , Tsinghua University , Beijing , China.
authors.forename: Jing
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Jing
authors.affiliation: a School of Public Health and Community Medicine , University of New South Wales , Sydney , Australia.
authors.forename: Karen
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: McMillan
authors.affiliation: c Journalism and Communication , China Youth University for Political Sciences , Beijing , China.
authors.forename: Chunyan
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Su
authors.affiliation: d School of Sociology and Politics , Renmin University of China , Beijing , China.
authors.forename: Xiaoxing
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Fu
authors.affiliation: e School of Sociology , Tsinghua University , Beijing , China.
authors.forename: Zhang
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Yuping
authors.affiliation: e School of Sociology , Tsinghua University , Beijing , China.
authors.forename: Rui
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.affiliation: e School of Sociology , Tsinghua University , Beijing , China.
authors.forename: Jia
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Cui
authors.affiliation: a School of Public Health and Community Medicine , University of New South Wales , Sydney , Australia.
authors.forename: Angela
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kelly-Hanku
authors.affiliation: d School of Sociology and Politics , Renmin University of China , Beijing , China.
authors.forename: Zhang
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Youchun
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002681:China; D049673:History, 20th Century; D018451:Homosexuality, Male / Q000266:history; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D012725:Sexual Behavior; D012922:Social Change / Q000266:history; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: China; Cultural Revolution; homosexual men; persecution; same-sex relations