Editor’s note
“In collectivist China, a person is not complete, he can not even constitute the existence of the unit, they will be excluded from the family system, or seriously ignored, must get married and have children to build a complete family, to constitute a respected independent unit. — The Deep Structure of Chinese Culture
On October 8, 2015, Yu Hu got up very early.
The day before, he had already packed his clothes. These days, he had negotiated with his wife that he would go to the civil affairs bureau to handle the divorce formalities on the first working day after the National Day holiday. Yu Hu intends to finish the formalities, go home to get clothes with Xiao Yang left.
That morning, his wife rented a car and got into the passenger seat. Yu hu got into the back seat and his two brothers sat beside him. He’s a little weird. When we go for a divorce, what are the brothers doing with us? The wife said, “Witness a divorce.”
Earlier, Yu’s wife went to the temple to burn incense, and she tried all kinds of ways to save her family. But it was in vain. Six months ago she learned that her husband was gay.
So she thought of another way.
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Instead of driving to the civil Affairs Bureau, yu’s car stopped in front of a white gate.
Yu was then tied up by his wife, her brother and their parents at zhumadian Psychiatric Hospital, a public hospital established in 1970. His wife’s idea was to send Him to “cure homosexuality”.
“They seem to have already spoken to the hospital. After taking me there, without any communication or examination, they took me to the bed in the ward and tied me up.” So recalls Yu Hu.
Without any consultation or examination, Yu repeatedly insisted that he was not ill and did not need treatment, but all in vain.
“Once inside, I was tied to my bed by them, and in the afternoon several tall men came and forcibly removed my clothes and put on the psychiatric ward’s sick clothes.” On his first day in the psychiatric ward, Yu refused to change his clothes. “When they forcibly took off my clothes, they laughed and said, ‘You’re gay? Let’s see if you’re a man or a woman.” Yu Hu was ridiculed and insulted, but powerless to resist.
The next thing he sent to Yu Hu was full of medicine.
Yu hu asked the medical staff what kind of medicine he was taking. There was no answer. Just ordered him to eat it immediately in front of him. Knowing that he was not mentally ill and that the hospital had never examined him, Yu gave him medicine. But he also knew. I have no choice but to comply.
As soon as he entered, he heard screams from other wards, the sound of other patients being beaten by “management” after disobeying orders and not taking their medicine.
“I often saw other people being beaten and abused at dinner, and it would come back to me in the middle of the night. After a few awakenings, I just wanted to get out.”
Yu Hu thought about jumping out of the window. But he lives on the fourth floor. “There’s a security iron outside, and there’s a glass, and there’s another outside. You walk through a card door and you have to be accompanied by a family member to get out. If the nurse sees you by the door, she will tell you to leave, or else beat you. You won’t stay in the bathroom for long, and I know you’ll die if you jump.”
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Xiao Yang at this time of the heart is close to collapse, 8 morning, he and Yu Hu last call only get a message: Yu Hu was put in a mental hospital. the phone has not been played, Yu Hu’s mobile phone was taken, Xiao Yang could not contact, had to come from other places, in zhumadian hospital, one by one to inquire. After four days of inquiry, a doctor in the psychological department of Zhumadian No. 2 People’s Hospital said, “Go to the building in front of you and ask. All the people there are mentally ill.”
Xiao Yang a floor a floor of the inquiry, finally asked the name of the Tiger. However, he was told by the doctor that his family had given him special permission to refuse visits to anyone except his wife and brother, who had brought him.
Xiao Yang is Yu Hu’s boyfriend, whom he met on the Internet.
Yu was born in the early 1980s, the youngest of six children. After junior high school at the age of 16, he started a small business. He liked brightly colored shirts and pockets that showed little skin at the top of his trousers. He was slender, his fingers in a delicate pose, and he went to the trendiest store in the county to buy clothes. Everyone praised him for being fashionable, but no one realized what it meant.
Yu Hu felt that there may be only one person in the world like this.
Around 2001, by chance, he knew a same sex, Yu Hu fell in love with him, get along for a year and a half, the other side tells Yu Hu however, he wants to get married.
As a result, the feeling of “I am the only one in the world” came back and got worse. Yu Felt completely cheated by others. The man told Yu Hu to get married and he would be fine if he got married.
Yu Hu felt that he found the same kind of hope more and more slim, at that time, his parents just introduced him to the neighboring village of Lin Hong, know three months, two people married. The day before their wedding, Yu hu said to his father, “One day I will get a divorce!” Father rebuked: “leave from, anyway now affirmation get knot!”
The Yu Hu that has quite the mind that do business gets rich very quickly, although at that time, Lin Hong thinks Yu Hu is very cold in that respect, but she still thinks Yu Hu is a good husband, because everyday get up early and get up late the stock just neglected to take care of oneself, and go about outside not to be stained with the least bit female sex. Soon after the baby was born, they bought a two-story house and a $200,000-plus car, and the days passed.
On weekdays, Yu occasionally watches movies on the Internet. One afternoon, when his wife was watching a stall and his children were going to school, It occurred to Yu Hu that there were films between two men on the Internet. To his surprise, there are many such films. Flushed tiger began to think, is there such a person in real life?
For the first time in years, he saw the word gay.
Soon, he searched several gay forums, he entered the city section, he found Xiao Yang’s post. Yu clearly didn’t meet Yang’s “no marriage” requirement, but he was so impressed by the sincerity that he added QQ at the end of the post.
Xiao Yang asked, “Have you got a family?”
Yu Didn’t hide anything.
Xiao Yang cooled down. Until two months past, Xiao Yang’s factory closed, Yu Hu has been in QQ constantly concerned about him, just let Xiao Yang feel warm.
The two quickly warmed up, talking on the phone five times a day for four or five hours, sometimes until three or four in the morning. Yang still had concerns about Yu’s married status, but Yu would reassure him over and over that everything would be taken care of. “I will give you a home,” he said.
The Yu Hu that right now already was planning secretly, oneself and the life of Xiao Yang future.
February 2015. Yu Hu with his wife Lin Hong came out of the closet, after he divided the house. But Lin Hong doesn’t think so.
“First, they don’t understand. They think it’s a disease. Second, they thought it was an illness, and they were definitely trying to save me and cure me of it. In fact, if they can understand what they did, they sent me there for my own good.” Talking about his wife, Yu Hu is also quite helpless.
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after finding yu Hu was locked in a mental hospital, Xiao Yang slept outside the inpatient department, taking advantage of the opportunity for the patient to go to another building for treatment at about nine o ‘clock every morning, through the window with Yu Hu dialogue. Yang asked the doctor what the diagnosis was, and the doctor said, “It’s a sexual preference disorder.”
can find more than tiger does not mean he can be taken out, Xiao Yang constantly try a variety of methods, cornered, he found the “gay friends and relatives”, will send a letter to help.
Read the news of Xiao Yang, friends and relatives will be in charge of a strong feel very incredible. Soon, the recording also sent over, is the content of the exchange in Henan dialect.
“Why were you sent here?” .
“My wife tricked me into getting a divorce. As soon as I got into the car, a couple of people inside stopped me and sent me here.”
“What did the doctor say?” .
“Say I’m a sexual preference disorder.”
“The doctor said you had a sexual preference disorder?”
“Yes… You’ve got to get me out of here, you can’t leave me, you can’t go looking for anyone else…” “Said Yu Hu at the other end. Xiao Yang cried anxiously, “No, don’t worry.”
On the day he got the news, A Qiang bought a ticket to Henan.
A Strong tried to go directly to the ward, but he soon hit a nail, the ward is located in the fourth floor of the inpatient department is completely isolated, outsiders are not free access,. He wanted to visit as a cousin again, but was rudely prevented from returning by the management: no one would see him except Yu Hu’s wife.
On Monday, Ah Qiang went back to the attending doctor and got a blunt response: “He’s none of your business. He’s here to treat sexual preference disorders, and he’s emotionally unstable.”
“This is clearly nonsense.” A strong and his tit for tat.
The two voices grew louder and began to quarrel in the ward. The chief doctor couldn’t stand the battle and went back to the ward. Finally, a strong reported to the police.
Two young policemen arrived and one asked, “What are you calling the police about?”
“I told them that there was a man who had been forcibly committed to a mental hospital by his family, and he had no mental illness at all.”
The police cooperate very much, they ask a Strong need to do what, a strong said now need you to accompany me to see the attending doctor to communicate again.
In front of the police, the attending doctor repeatedly stressed that Yu had been sent by his wife to treat his sexual preference disorder and that he was emotionally unstable. “We have an admissions office here that deals with these kinds of things,” he said. “You can talk to your supervisor.”
So, a Strong and two police officers in the hospital office saw the director, a woman in her fifties, in her to coordinate, another relatively gentle male doctor was also called to the conference room, the two sides sat down to talk for half an hour.
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It was the lawyers who finally broke the ice. During the communication with the director, A Qiang called Huang Xuetao’s lawyer.
Chatal huang lawyers is China’s system of psychosis treated legal analysis report’s lead author, lawyer told the hospital, the mental health law article 30 stipulates that mental disorders of hospitalization, carried out on voluntary basis, and if there is no evidence that the parties have hurt others’ families and hospital and self-destructive behavior, in violation of the parties intend to forcibly sent to treatment, in violation of the “mental health law, at the same time also suspected of illegally restrict the personal freedom of others, this is to bear the corresponding legal responsibility.
The meeting put a lot of pressure on the hospital, and it was only now that the director agreed to arrange another meeting in the ward. This time the client showed up and he could decide whether to remain in the hospital.
Finally to see Yu Hu, everyone was very excited, but when he reached the ward, his excitement quickly turned to worry.
a strong saw more than tiger, exactly saw forced to take the medicine more than tiger, he looked very distracted, eyes full of fear.
“Are you going to stay here or are you going to go out?” Facing the problem of attending doctor, Yu Hu has a kind of unspeakable trance.
The a Strong of flank see nasty: “this problem is very important, you want to tell according to your own heart true idea.”
Yu Hu hesitated for a few seconds before slowly uttering four words in local dialect: “I want to go out.”
Yu Hu’s fear is not without reason. He was forcibly sent to a mental hospital by his family. He worries about how to face his family if he goes out. His doctor said that as long as he was willing to leave the hospital, nothing else needed to be considered.
Phone soon be connected, opposite the tiger’s wife, attending physician said more than the tiger will be out of the hospital, the woman immediately roar: “this is what people, what relationship with him,” call and received more than tiger there, his wife is still arrogant attitude: “you don’t change (treatment), I will never meet you, let you stay in it for life.”
Yu Hu’s tears came down immediately. He said to his wife in a tearful voice, “This time I must be different. I will go back to live with you…” He had to get out of here, out of this place that was giving him nightmares.
Still, Yu’s wife insisted on the phone that the attending doctor keep Yu for further treatment. The attending physician replied simply, “You can come in this afternoon to complete the discharge formalities. If you don’t come, we will have to complete the discharge before work.” Then the call ended.
At four o ‘clock in the afternoon, the person who had sent Yu Hu to the hospital returned to the hospital and reluctantly went through the discharge formalities, and Yu Hu was taken home.
By the end of the day, Yu had spent 19 days in a mental hospital.
Along the way, Yu Hu’s sister kept cursing: “there are no homosexuals in the county, you are the one, I will go back to break your legs, see how you later outside the boy together…”
Yu Hu of course understand what is going to face, returned home on the fourth day, the day just dawned, Yu Hu once again choose to escape. He took almost nothing with him, and all he wanted to do was run away with Xiao Yang.
For the newly free Yu Hu, he still has a lot to find.
Afterword.
In 2014, a Haidian Court in Beijing ruled in favor of a gay man who had been treated with electric shock, adding that “homosexuality is not a disease.” “I think the situation in which I was forcibly treated is similar to the case in Beijing. I don’t know how many people like me have been treated in this way because of my sexual orientation, so I decided to take up legal arms to protect my rights.” “Yu Hu said.
In fact, as early as May 1990, the World Health Organization had removed homosexuality and bisexuality from the International Statistical classification of Diseases and Related Health problems, and the world medical standard no longer considered sexual orientation as a disease in itself and did not require “reverse treatment”.
On May 17, 2016, Yu Filed a lawsuit with the Yicheng District Court, citing zhumadian Psychiatric Hospital as the defendant. He demanded an apology and 10,000 yuan in emotional distress from the psychiatric hospital in Zhumadian, which he said had violated his right to personal freedom by forcing him to be hospitalized and banning him from leaving the hospital.
On June 26, 2017, a court in The Zhumadian District of Henan province ruled that Yu’s forced treatment violated his right to personal freedom, and ordered the hospital to make a public apology to yu and pay him 5,000 yuan in compensation for mental distress.
Before the trial, the hospital asked Yu: “If the hospital is willing to pay the settlement, do you agree?”
“No. I just can’t swallow it.” Tiger said.
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