Global Homo - Lost in Liminality

C-L-I-T: China Lesbian Info & Talk group

2006-07-06T05:34:31Z

So I have finally started a yahoo group for all the lesbians living in China. This is a new group & resource site for queer girls living in China, will the all knowledge and contacts one needs to be a happy homo in the Middle Kingdom:

"C-L-I-T: China Lesbian Info & Talk"

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/c-l-i-t/

- Dedicated to providing an English speaking space for lesbians, dykes, bois, f2ms, bi, genderqueer girls et al living in China, be they Chinese nationals or expats. This is a place to find lesbian resources, information, places, clubs, events, parties, dinners, movie nights, romantic liasons, friends, roomies and lovers in China!

Enjoy!

THE Anonymous Dyke Soon To Be In Beijing

2006-07-04T10:44:03Z

Ok, so a few weeks back a secretive dyke posted comments on my LJ that she would be in town soon. Given that great lack of English speaking homo girls in BJ this is of course of much interest and fascination to me and my crew here.

She did claim to be manufacturing a myspace profile for us to engage in stalker like spying on her and her photos (yes - this is a not too subtle hint to her that I wanna see pix please). As yes I have not heard back from her - unless she has friended me and I am not aware that it is her of LJ comment posting origin.

We wait in anticipation for word of this new secret dyke to land in ye olde BJ town, upon which we will take her out and initiate her with great quantites of alcohol from the fabulous QBar that George & Echo (previously of First Cafe & Midnight Bar fame). Damn their lychee martini's are amazing.

For those (like me) who don't read the comments on LJ's other than your own blog, here is what she said:

so i was searching myspace.com and came across your profile. im coming to beijing, and am a gay foreigner! anyways, i was wondering if you could tell me some dyke bars/clubs in beijing? i've lived there before, but it was 5 years ago and I dont really remember any back then.

-soon to be in beijing-

anonymous dyke soon to be in beijing looks forward to hearing about interesting clubs/bars to check out. I don't *really* have myspace right now, but when I finish making my profile, I will friend you.

Will be there very soon...

-THE anonymous dyke soon to be in beijing ;-)

So many medications, so little time

2006-06-08T11:08:05Z

I went for yet another follow appointment with my doctor today at Beijing United family Hospital. Everytime I attempt to reduce the codeine (which is the first drug I am supposed to reduce before we work on titrating down the morphine) I start to get pain again.

When I take all my medications as prescribed, ie: 30mg Morphine (12 hr release) + 30 mg Codine @ 9am and the same @ 9pm plus 15mg of Codine every 3 hours as necessary during the day I am generally pain-free.

However, on Tuesday, despite taking all my medication nicely and politely I started to get all kinds of nasty spikey eletric tingly horrid weird painful weird sharp feelings down my lower back and legs. I told my doctor today and she was not pleased at all and consequently decided that she must prescribe me more medication at once! Dear god. Here I was thinking that she was planning on getting me OFF the morphine and codine in the next month, not adding more medication to the mix.

My new medication's name is "Topiramate", generic brand name of "Topamax". Currently she has given me 25 mg but plans to titrate me up... to what I don't yet know. It is more commonly used as an anticonvulsant but in lower doses is used to calm angry nerves. Fingers crossed it does and I don't just get all the wacked side effects I just finished reading online. Fun times for all.

My Herniated/Prolapsed Disc

2006-06-08T10:48:28Z

Right now my back is hurting. I'm not due to take more medication for my back until 9pm (it is currently 6.47pm..grrr). I shall write more details on my back in a latter post for those who don't know what is wrong. For know I shall go the the concept that a picture speaks a thousand words. This is what is wrong with my back (no not all of them - the one marked "herniated disc"):

THE Chart

2006-06-08T09:48:26Z

I don't this this needs any explanation really. A Beijing-centric view of the fornications thus far in China's very own "theLword"...of course this chart no doubt extends much farther and much more twisted than represented here...but I only display what I know at present.. stay tuned...I personally plan to add at least one more line come HK..preferably 2...or 3..hehehe.. fingers crossed :-) Oh..post script to the HK Casting Tour entry & comment from Defernates - being that you are an F2M straight man you are of course most welcome, and duh, you are one of the producers who will be helping with auditions...hehehe...

L Word China Season 4 - HK Casting Dates

2006-06-08T06:53:10Z

Calling all lesbians, dykes, bois, girls who like girls, women who fuck women, genderqueer females, f2ms, women who identify as having an attration to other women and other pc type language...we shall be holding auditions for L Word China Season 4 from June 16-19 in Hong Kong .

Myself and fellow producers will be flying down to Hong Kong from Beijing, Shanghai and Dalian to find the right girls - please email me for more details and club locations. No straight girls please...or men for that matter...unless you are f2m.

Inclusion of photos with your email is appreciated but nudie shots are not welcome, if we wish to see you naked we will let you know by inviting you back to our hotel room ;-)

Homo-By-Numbers

2006-06-05T09:39:28Z

There are approximately a total of 200,000 expatriates/foreigners/laowai/guilo currently living in Hong Kong Special Autonomous Region (aka HK). The last figure I heard was 180k, from an Australian dyke who has lived there for the past 6 years, not that this gives her any authority on population statistics.

If we play the 10% rule, this doesnt equal out to alot of foreign lesbian action. No wonder they seem to be quite excited and keen to help give us the inside info on the HK lesbian scene - to them we are the newly imported fresh meat (not that I have an issues against that.. I know thats more or less how we view every new laowai lesbian that arrives in BJ).

Now the word is (again I have no actual sources to back it up - I am not interested enuf to look up online random statistics at this moment) that there are around 1 million expatriates living in ye olde Beijing town.

1 million foreigners alone, and some 13-16 million Chinese nationals... and I know of the existance of a maximum of 10 expat lesbians in BJ?

WTF I ask?

Should we choose to apply the 10% homo deal to the 1 million population (and indeed I do choose to), that would give us roughly 100,000 foreign homosexuals prancing, stomping and fornicating about Beijing. How pleasing a concept indeed.

Naturally we must adjust this fine number of 100,000 gay/lesbian laowai to take into account the skewed population demographics of excess ammounts of rich married CEO's and their taitai expat housewives, single straight men in their 20-40's working as engineers and such and many the annoying student staying in BJ for 3 months for Chinese study, we should still get at least 5-10,000 laowai homos in BJ!

Apply a further (and oh so subjective) adjustment to allow for the majority of those 5-10,000 as being gay men, old homos that have either given up on love or live with their long time lover and never go out and numerous closet cases and clueless girls who have yet to realise their true calling, this most certainly still gives us a number (however imaginary) greater than 10..or even 20 for that matter!

Where the fuck are they? Where?!?

The BJ-HK Connection

2006-06-05T09:23:35Z

Found and got in contact with the dyke who 'runs' the HK laowai lesbian crew, she runs a party out of some apartment once a month - on a Tuesday of all nights (highly inconvenient for those visiting for the weekend - such as myself).

Said she would hook up us up with the foriegner lesbian crowd and let us know what parties/events are happening the weekend we arrive (currently 16-19 June'06). Splendid - nothing like an instant social life to make the HK Homo Trip good times for all.

Upon telling Samo the good news he replied with "Heh. They have a Fucking sorority? Awesome". Not sure if the capitalisation on Fucking implies that he is under the impression is a sorority for sexual activities (ie: fucking), or if the use of the word fucking was for emphasis, but I suspect it will work out as such reardless. Hehe. Fingers crossed anyway.

Shanghai Kings

2006-04-25T19:33:28Z

Random photos from the splendid "Gender Fuck Party" house party in Shanghai March 2006. Twas just a weekend fly in fly out visit to see my Shanghai dyke pals and suprise Anita for her birthday but it was one of the best weekends I've had in quite some time, definately worth the excessive lack of sleep.

	Bois in the kitchen Hanni, Ilsa, Chris and Julie, drunken, packing and very happy. Packing tip: Find yourself in China with no cock to pack? Never fear, baloons blown up ever so slightly and placed in your pants will pass the 'squeeze' test everytime, even when said test is administered by gay men (beats shoving a sock in your trousers anyday).
	Bois and their toys... Chris pimps herself while Hollie pervs on random hot boidyke
	Myself and Dr Long checking out the action
	The Lion Tamer Hanni gets some extra special attention from Chris
	This is how they do it Dr Long and a saucy gay boy demonstrate how the hetero's get it on
	The wee hours Julie being drunk while I romance a lovely faggot with hairy boobies
	What a drag The lovely ladies strut about the living room turned stage, enacting many poorly mimed but very saucy drag performance