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ce the society was planted. In the archaian China, beyond expectation, homo***uality was accepted by the community with a mercifully peaceable attitude—perhaps the reason lies in that there was religious power that bounded the society little and that exoteric emperors and patricians all boasted idiosyncratic interests towards homo***uality then. There had existed this kind of culture in China for a time of thousands of years, with the thread that could easily be found in the tales of “Long Yang”, “Duan Xiu”, and “Xie Tong”, which were then recorded in the history annals. In Qing Dynasty, according to Zhang Beichuan, professor of Qintao Medical Institute, homoerotism was prevailed in some areas of China such as Fujian province, where, in 1991, a couple of male homo***uality companions celebrated their wedding ceremony in public. However, it does not seem that the situation would develop in the way it had been in—as a matter of fact, homoerotism had been in such complex, untoward circumstances since modern China. Not until late 80s last century did homo***uality become a focus that caught intense public attention, with substantive scholars of Iatrology, Sociology and Ethnics who commenced a further research; simultaneously, it seems that the mainstream culture, including official attitude towards its subordinate, gradually ignores its elegance sanctity, encouraging varied homo***ual activities arising from underground and unveiling their mystery. To sum up, the developing history of homoerotism in China could be described as delineation called parabola, reaching its high tide in the ancient times, falling down to its low tide as time goes by, retouching a higher point in modern times. B. Social Status Being in such sensitive position, it is not so hard to figure out in what social stratum may the queers lay—situation dose not seem to be so charitable to them, though living in the so-called civilized community. Homoerotism is considered to be evil and, a kind of criminal behavior, which contradicts with the direction of divinity. Furthermore, owing to the bondage of feudalistic ideology in China, homo***uality is prone to be criticized and animadverted. Instead of being respected, Homoerotism is far from being admitted by communities, especially before the establishment of new China, notwithstanding that the circumstances have been in a loosing style since then. In the view of most citizens of China, homo***uality may equal to the filthy words such as stigmatic and hideous—adjectives that are created to describe all the ugliness in the world, which seems unfair for this phenomenon belonging to subculture. Under the oppressive pressure coming from the society, this group of specialty has to lead their painful life gingerly underground, no self-esteem, no understandingly paid attention to, and no common rights enjoyed by ordinary citizens. Yet, unfairness and discrimination still turns out to be the main theme of the social status of gays and lesbians, with no formal law documents promulgated officially. It looks as if queers have never possessed, nor realized, their position in the mainstream community as they always assemble in private places. Xu Tianming, syndic of SAC, holds his view that this group of people, are actually of little solicitude of commonality and government—“they are under the situation where there is no concern. Clubs and bars of queers scatter around large cities like Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, which h