LGBTQ rights in China: Halfway out of closet?

Queer communities face obstacles as they try to push forward

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Hao Wu, fourth from left, is back in Chengdu for his grandfather's birthday. (Photo by Jingyang Cheng)

MARRIAN ZHOU, Nikkei staff writer

NEW YORK -- A skyline immersed in a hazy layer of fog, a street crowded with mopeds, a community game room filled with patrons playing mahjong and munching on sunflower seeds -- this is the Chinese city of Chengdu in Hao Wu's documentary "All in My Family," launched on Netflix in mid-May.

Now in his mid-40s, Wu left Chengdu for the U.S. at 20 and quickly realized that he was gay after encountering American LGBTQ communities.

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