While Australia says ‘yes’, the country with more gay people than most says an implacable ‘no’.
But in China, a determined group of young men and women just won’t take no for an answer.
About 800 special invitees are piling aboard a cruise ship to witness the marriages of nine LGBT couples in a brazen statement against China’s law and traditional family values.
But there’s a hitch. Even though shipboard marriages have no legal standing in China, authorities are edgy about this “immoral” cruise and the defiance it represents. They move to stop the ship sailing, threatening to blow up months of planning.
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