Sandra Teh meets the organizer and a contestant of the first Mr. Gay China contest, which was halted minutes before launch. Discover the truth about the cancellation, and China's gay culture.

Guangdong's new move to establish a middle school only for girls is a first in the province. Located in downtown Zhuhai, the privately-run Henglong Girls' Middle School plans to enroll 1,000 students next year, targeting middle school girls from Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao.

Girls schools have been highly regarded in western countries, and some successful examples can also be found in modern Chinese history. The director of the Zhuhai education bureau said that hundreds of years of experience in western countries have proved that the pattern of all-girls schools has little negative effect on the growth of students.

But the new school in Guangdong has triggered a heated debate over whether single-sex schools are good for adolescents, and surprisingly even whether they can lead to homosexuality.

California's decision to ban same sex marriage may have been a set back for the gay rights movement, but here in China the gay community is becoming ever more vocal. On Valentine's Day, campaigners took to the streets in Beijing's historic Qianmen district, just south of Tiananmen Square to call for the legalization of same sex marriage and a greater acceptance of homosexuality. Male and female couples, dressed in their wedding best, staged mock photo shoots drawing gasps, smiles and the odd scowl for passersby.

When you talk about AIDS, you can't help talking about other issues like sex and homosexuality.And in China,these issues are often still considered taboo.But today,China AND the rest of the world remember those whose lives are affected by the deadly virus.The first AIDS case in China was reported back in 1985.Back then,the virus was largely transmitted through tainted blood transfusions.But today,sex has overtaken drug abuse as the main cause of HIV infections.BON's Sylvia Gunawan reports.

Yesterday we showed the first part of BON reporter Hattie Zhao's report on China's rise as the second largest economy in the world. We took a look at what contributed to the country's dramatic growth in GDP over the past several years, as well as the rising issues the country now faces due to its new clout as an emerging economic powerhouse- Issues that include migration, pollution, and growing inequality between classes. In Part One, we learned that China’s real estate bubble has dramatically widened the gap between the country's rich and poor. And this disparity can be evidenced in the fact that though China’s per capita GDP is less than that of developing nations like Namibia and Ecuador- it now boasts the world’s second largest consumption of luxury goods. Today, as we continue the second part of Hattie’s report, we take a look at the everyday life of ordinary Chinese people- how their lives are changing as their country’s economy continues to change. Yesterday we ended the program with Kerstin’s interview- as she spoke of the changes her family has experienced in the past 10 years of China's economic rise.