Word: zhou
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When a young lawyer named Zhou Dan started writing about being gay on Chinese websites in 2001, he hoped his honesty would help combat prejudice. Homosexuality was--and still is--very much in the closet in China; Beijing had just taken it off an official list of mental disorders. Zhou's entries, signed with his own name, had an unintended consequence. Gay men from around China who had faced workplace discrimination, blackmail and even prison time started to seek his legal counsel. So Zhou, 31, decided to act on his conviction that "a good lawyer should know not only...
...Staff writer Lulu Zhou can be reached at luluzhou@fas.harvard.edu...
...Staff writer Lulu Zhou can be reached at luluzhou@fas.harvard...
...Staff writer Lulu Zhou can be reached at luluzhou@fas.harvard.edu...
...Staff writer Lulu Zhou can be reached at luluzhou@fas.harvard.edu...