16 million women married to gay men in China

Beijing: An estimated 16 million women in China may be married to homosexual men, "silently suffering" the consequences to sustain their wedlock, a leading Chinese expert claimed on Friday. 

Prof Zhang Bei-chuan from Qingdao University, who researches on AIDS and HIV, said that about 90 per cent of homosexual men marry because of pressure to follow traditional values prevalent in the country.