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Big Treasure and Small Treasure

I saw a news story today on Yahoo, of a gay marriage in China . I was like "oh that's unusual in China; a gay marriage" and usually these things don't interest me a great deal, but then as I was skimming over the article I saw a line about "old men", the word "sex" and something in inverted commas ( 两名老年男同性恋者在支持者的见证下举行“婚礼 ...) Well,...things just got interesting. Screenshot taken from Yahoo.cn News website. Isn't his dress lovely... When I translated the sentence I was shocked. I laughed to myself. Translated, that sentence means Supporters witnessed, two elderly men who have sex with men, held a "wedding".  I asked my girlfriend if there was no such thing as the word "gay" or "homosexual" in China as it seems quite a strange and slightly disturbing and overly descriptive choice of words. No beating about the bush here. No friendly sounding words like "gay" or "homo" but just short of dec