Beijing — A month after Lauren mustered the courage to tell her mother she is lesbian, the 26-year-old Shanghai resident came out to a stranger who knocked on her door.

She told the young man, one of 7-million conducting China’s once-in-a-decade census, that she and her girlfriend lived together...

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