Millions of Chinese women married to gays

There may be as many as 16 million women in China who are married to homosexual men, a leading expert has estimated.

Professor Zhang Bei-chuan at Qingdao University - an authority on AIDS and HIV - said due to traditional family values, about 90 per cent of gays get married because of pressure to conform.

Xiao Yao, a 29-year-old magazine editor in Xi'an of Shaanxi province, divorced her gay husband in 2008.