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TIL that gays in Hong Kong started using the word "comrade" (同志) in the '80s as a way to spite the Chinese Communist Party for its mistreatment of sexual minorities in the mainland. Today, it is one of the primary terms LGBT people in the Chinese-speaking world use to refer to one another.

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