Sounds like just another case of if we don’t talk about it, it will go away to me.

China has closed a Web site providing news and information to the country’s lesbian and gay community, according to press reports.

The www.gaychinese.net site has apparently been blocked since April, with its manager telling the AFP agency that the government claims it is too explicit.

However, site manager Damien Lu says the site was purely providing an online news resource to the many lesbian and gay people in China. He rejects the claims that the site was “violating the Chinese government’s rules.”

A popular AIDS activist said the closure of the Chinese language Web site would hit the gay community hard, telling Agence France-Presse that the content was vital to many vulnerable people and their families.

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