THREE GENERATIONS | a change in perspective

'For Better or for worse' spoke to three different generations from Urumchi, Xinjiang in China, to see how their viewpoints on same-sex marriage differ.

It revealed an important change in the way same-sex relationships are perceived in China, and perhaps how they are changing across the world...

a YOUNG viewpoint:

"Marriage, I think, is about helping each other...to live with the person you love. It's their [homosexuals] right to marry"

- Liwen Zhang, 24 years old

a

MIDDLE AGE

viewpoint:

"homosexuality, it's a mental illness

and against nature"

- Weidong Liu & Jianmei Wei,

50 & 48 years old

an

OLDER GENERATIONS

viewpoint:

"to get married is to have children, foster them, the family, to carry on your family line. [Gay marriage] break that tradition"

- Jianyu Yang, 76 years old