{"id":1217,"date":"2016-11-16T21:45:31","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T01:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silkroad.guilford.edu\/?p=1217"},"modified":"2016-11-16T21:45:31","modified_gmt":"2016-11-17T01:45:31","slug":"the-gays-as-elusive-as-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/projects\/silkroad\/team-sky\/the-gays-as-elusive-as-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gays: As elusive as ever."},"content":{"rendered":"

Our group has been doing pretty well so far, and I think things will continue to go well for us moving forward. We\u2019ve been working on research even as we\u2019ve been pushing forward into the next steps, since my own topic hasn\u2019t been all that generous with sources and Elise changed her topic right before we went on break. I don\u2019t necessarily think this is a setback, though; even though there\u2019s a bit more work to do now, it\u2019ll probably benefit us in the end with a more substantial map and better connections between our topics.
\nIn my case, I haven\u2019t found much since I last wrote about having difficulty finding sources. I\u2019ve yet to find the name or location of the gay bar in Urumqi, and I think I\u2019m ready to accept that I likely won\u2019t be able to find it in the time we have to finish the project. I thought I had found the owner\u2019s name, but looking into him I learned that he was \u201cMr. Gay China\u201d and lives in Beijing, so I\u2019m not quite sure what to make of his ties to the bar.
\nWhile definitely not the most reliable method, I spent some time the other day using Google Translate to search for websites about gay Uyghurs in Chinese, and I ended up stumbling across some rather bizarre things. There was a website with a very short piece of (I\u2019m assuming) creative writing wherein a guy was admiring a Uyghur man, but far more interesting were the comments; they ranged from relatively normal encouragement for the author to some absolutely wild accusations that Islam required Uyghur men to maintain two gay love affairs at any given time. Google Translate isn\u2019t the most reliable translation source, so perhaps something was translated incorrectly, but I\u2019m very much interested in where that idea originated. There were also some sexually explicit stories about Uyghur men nestled in the comments, but it was unclear whether or not the authors of the comments were Uyghur, Han, or another ethnicity. Another thing that I noticed was how most Chinese pages refer to gay guys as \u201ccomrades,\u201d and I haven\u2019t been able to find any explanation for this.
\nI\u2019ve also been having some fun looking into gay culture in China\u2019s eastern cities, Shanghai in particular. Plenty of websites for clubs are accessible, and it\u2019s been interesting to look into all of that and get a sense of what clubs there are like. I\u2019m also having a great time looking at all the posters that clubs have made to advertise their events \u2013 I\u2019ve been sifting through page after page of attractive guys to find the perfect poster to use in the storymap. For science, y\u2019know?
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\n— Nathan, 10\/29<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our group has been doing pretty well so far, and I think things will continue to go well for us moving forward. We\u2019ve been working on research even as we\u2019ve been pushing forward into the next steps, since my own topic hasn\u2019t been all that generous with sources and Elise changed her topic right before … Continue reading The Gays: As elusive as ever.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-team-sky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/projects\/silkroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/projects\/silkroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/projects\/silkroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/projects\/silkroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/projects\/silkroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/projects\/silkroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/projects\/silkroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/projects\/silkroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/projects\/silkroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}