Editing Gay bar (section)

===China===
{{See also|LGBT history in China}}

The oldest gay bar in [[Beijing]] is the Half-and-Half, which in 2004 had been open over ten years.<ref name="auto1">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Jm2NAgAAQBAJ|title=Gay and Lesbian Subculture in Urban China|first=Loretta Wing Wah|last=Ho|date=September 10, 2009|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781135256579|via=Google Books}}</ref> The first lesbian bar in China (also in Beijing) was Maple Bar, opened in 2000 by pop singer [[Qiao Qiao]]. The On/Off was a popular bar for both gay men and lesbians.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://newurbanquestion.ifou.org/proceedings/3%20The%20Urbanized%20Society/poster%20papers/B034_Teng_Jingru_Lesbian%20Spaces%20in%20Beijing.pdf |title=LESBIAN SPACES IN BEIJING|date=2009 |website= newurbanquestion.ifou.org|access-date=2020-10-03}}</ref> The increase in China's gay and lesbian bars in recent years is linked to China's opening up to global capitalism and its consequent economic and social restructuring.<ref name="auto1"/>