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Earlier this year, Aritz Parra of the new video news network VJ Movement took his camera and followed Dylan Chen, one of the organisers of Shanghai Pride, mainland China's very first gay pride season. He followed the young man over the course of two months, chronicling the ups and downs Dylan and his team experienced in putting together the event. The result is this beautifully and sensitively edited video clip you see below. Check out the money shot of the plainclothes policeman videotaping one of the Shanghai Pride events.

                    

Shanghaiist intern Kirsti Jönson, who covered Shanghai Pride (a China first!) last week, gives us her account of the event and what it might mean for all the LGBTa living in China.

Up until yesterday, it'd been smooth sailing for Shanghai's first Pride week. But as of Wednesday afternoon, the festival, a celebration of gay pride and social tolerance, ran into some problems with the authorities. Officials from a Shanghai commercial bureau visited and warned the owners of two venues that they would face "severe consequences" if they failed to cancel the events that were to be held there.

What’s every gay woman and man talking about in China these days? Shanghai Pride, of course.

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