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Wu Youjian: Being Gay through a Mother’s Eyes
Time: 7:30pm – 9:30om, 5th June, 2012
Venue: Xindanwei, 50 Yongjia Rd.

Cost: 40RMB

The speaker Wu Youjian will start with her own family story in order to explain how she came to understand and accept her gay son, how she came to make appearances in the media in support of her son, and later of the LGBT community at large. She will tell the story of her son: Blessed with family support, he has passed through stages of his love life as well as his career. Activities of both PFLAG China and her studio will also be illustrated with examples. By sharing real cases encountered in years of work, Wu will express her view on subjects such as same-sex love, coming out, marriage of convenience, and wives of gay men.

About speaker：

Born in 1947 in Guangdong, Wu Youjian is a retired editor, a mother who has been the first in China to openly support her gay son and has laterbecome an advocate for the LGBT community at large. Wu was prevented from going to college by the onset of the Cultural Revolution in 1966. Two years later she was sent down to the country where she farmed and learned at first hand the life of Chinese peasants. She returned to her hometown Guangzhou in 1979. Until her retirement in 2008, she worked with magazines successively as proofreader, editor, deputy editor-in-chief, and deputy editorial director.

Since 2005 Wu has given over 100 interviews to TV, radio, newspapers and magazines. Her photograph became the cover of the widely circulatedPeople Weekly of the Southern News Group. She co-founded the first PFLAG (Parents, Familes, & Friends of Lesbians and Gays) group in China and served as its president. In 2012 she established a new studio to continue her work in helping to build a more diversified yet inclusive society.

At the invitation of many universities across the nation, including Fudan and the Sun Yat-sen University, Wu gave lectures on college campuses of the subject “Being gay through a mother’s eyes.” Meanwhile, she attended gatherings of LGBT families and friends, as well as seminars on the fight against HIV/AIDS, in different cities.

A member of the Chinese Association of Writers, Guangdong Chapter, WuYoujianhas published fiction, nonfiction and essays in a dozen of newspapers and magazines; some of these won her awards. She is the author of a collection of true stories titled Love Is the Most Beautiful Rainbow: Gay World through a Mother’s Eyes.

Wu runs a free hotline 020-37611068 during 22:00–24:00 every Wednesday. Her blog has accumulated 3.3 million visits; her microblog 63,000 followers. Many LGBT people and their parents intimately call her “Mama Wu.”

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吴幼坚：一个母亲眼中的GAY
时间：2012年6月5号晚7点30分
地点：永嘉路50号，新单位

费用：40 元
参观
主办机构：新单位

吴幼坚从自己家庭说起，为什么能理解接受同性恋儿子，并支持儿子通过媒体公开出柜，自己随后也出镜支持同性恋群体。介绍儿子得到父母支持后爱情与事业的发展。简述同性恋亲友会、吴幼坚工作室先后组织的公益活动。通过真实具体的男女同志实例，解说同性爱、出柜、形婚、同妻等话题。

关于演讲者

1947年出生，原籍广东恩平，退休编辑，中国第一位公开支持同性恋儿子、进而支持同性恋群体的母亲。1966年高中毕业遭逢“文革”，1968年作为知青赴粤北山区务农数年，后调任县文化局创作员。1979年至2008年历任《广州文艺》杂志校对、编辑、副主编、《源流》杂志副总编辑。2005年至今接受电视电台报刊网站上百次采访，成为《南方人物周刊》封面人物，广东省2008年十大新闻人物候选人。办博客设信箱开热线服务社会，2008年6月成立中国首个同性恋亲友会并任会长。2012年成立吴幼坚工作室，实施65至70岁的晚年第二个五年计划，为建设多元包容的和谐社会发挥余热。

自2008年起，在复旦、中大、武大、南大、北师大、中青政、华东师大、大连理工等院校开讲座，主讲《一位母亲眼中的GAY》。同时，出席各地同志亲友座谈会、防艾经验交流会等。

吴幼坚是中国作家协会广东分会会员，曾在《羊城晚报》、《家庭》、《广州文艺》、《源流》、《艺术家》等报刊发表报告文学、小说、散文等作品并获奖，著有纪实文学集《爱是最美的彩虹——一位母亲眼中的同志世界》。热线020-37611068逢周三22：00-24：00由吴幼坚免费接听。新浪博客访问量330万人次，微博粉丝6.3万人，许多同性恋者及其父母都亲切地称呼她“吴妈妈”。

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