Despite China's lack of state and political opposition against its LGBT community, its main opposition stems from the immediate families of those belonging to the LGBT community due to its "One Child" policy. This is due to the policy"s affect on familie's ability to continue their lines of descent; thus there is a desire predomiantly by grandparents for their children to raise mentally, emotionally healthy grandchildren that desire traditional heterosexual relationships in order to make this possible. Thus; it's the parents not the state or conservative religious groups along with private corporations through subtle forms of discrimination that either prevent promotions, lower salaries or creates unemployment.
However; subtle forms of discrimination in employment would also make it difficult for LGBT couples to create families of their own due to their inability to successfully support potential families of their own financially. Despite the differences in race, nationality and geopolitical history the form of subtle discrimination faced by LGBT Chinese citizens may be similar to those faced by US citizens that are people of color, but not necessarily gay. Due to globalization, it is becoming increasingly clear that various groups rather they are LGBT or people of color share various intersections of Poli-economic and psychosocial existence.
Despite China possessing a large homogeneous population which is united through a common language and culture, it is diversified by class. No matter the population or its geographic location, a population's access to resources such as employment, housing, education and marriageable spouses; due to the fact that China's population as a whole, once one of the poorest, is now experiencing an increase in personal wealth there is even greater pressure by parents on adult LGBT children to have healthy heterosexual children that can maintain family bloodlines.
Although the government has not acted against the LGBT community there is still various bans against LGBT subject matters related to: entertainment, media based mental health out reach to the LGBT community, appropriate mental health services and protection against discrimination in employment. It would appear that according to a USAID article written August 13, 2014 that its the heterosexual population among the Chinese people as opposed to its government that tend to create massive opposition against its LGBT community. Based upon this article's information, many of the social economic strategies for survival utilized by the LGBT community within the US such as the creation of cooperative families, the legal marriage of gay men and women to each other in order to preserve their socioeconomic existence within modern Chinese society.
At present, many of the rights being obtained by the LGBT community within the US are being slowly gained by China's LGBT community. However; those rights being obtained by the Chinese LGBT community within areas such as Hong Kong are not necessarily being obtained by those LGBT communities within less industrialized areas of China.
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