China’s First LGBT Hotline Opened in Shanghai
According to Shanghai Youth Daily, China’s first LGBT Hotline is opened in Shanghai. Full text of the coverage can be found here (in Chinese), although the Internet version of the report missed to mention the number: 800-988-1929 (only in the Mainland).
I didn’t know if it’s actually an LGBT Hotline–in China the word tongxinglian is mostly applied to gay male. The “subverted” term tongzhi is not as widely used as in Hong Kong and Taiwan; in China tongzhi still means comrade in most context. And the Youth Daily report only mentioned male callers and male volunteers. Perhaps it’s more a gay hotline than a general LGBT hotline.
Taiwan’s tongzhi hotline is opened in June 1998.