Since ancient times, the public has been more or less confused and biased toward LGBT people in both China and the West. According to Public Attitude on Homosexuality, published by Li Yinhe, a professor at the Institute of Sociology at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and advocate for the rights of homosexuals, 70 percent of homosexual people in China would marry a heterosexual person under family stress, forming a peculiar phenomenon called a "Marriage of Convenience." 

What do Chinese people know about their LGBT community – lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender – and how they have been treated? How are attitudes changing? What controversies remain? Find out this week on "Closer To China."