Kathleen McLaughlin is an award-winning journalist based in China
As Myanmar opens up, LGBT activism is coming back to the country. But a colonial-era sodomy law, and slow social change, keep tensions high.
In the '90s, a gynecologist named Gao Yaojie exposed the horrifying cause of an AIDS epidemic in rural China — and the ensuing cover-up — and became an enemy of the state. Now 85, she lives in New York without her family, without her friends, and without regrets.
As Myanmar opens up, LGBT activism is coming back to the country. But a colonial-era sodomy law, and slow social change, keep tensions high.