{
  "id": 416711,
  "title": "Lesbian love in China remains forbidden",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/09/lesbian-love-in-china-remains-forbidden",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-09T22:22:19.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Le Monde English",
    "slug": "le-monde-english",
    "url": "https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2026/08/10/lesbian-love-in-china-remains-forbidden_6756325_4.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "'Growing up in hostile environments' (2/7). In 2014, in Xiamen, China, Dutch photographer Sarah Mei Herman met four lesbian students. Over the years, she has continued to follow them, capturing in her portraits a truth that these young women must otherwise hide in a society where homosexuality remains taboo.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}