In olden China, the most likely place you’d find cross-dressing would probably be the theatre, where men played female roles because women were not allowed on stage.
Today, many Chinese people continue to maintain traditional attitudes against LGBT visibility, despite homosexuality becoming decriminalised in the country in 1997.
Last Friday, 20 contestants defied societal norms and took part in a cross-dressing competition held at Icon Club in Shanghai.
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