He was drawn in by the dance team performing by the park’s front gate. Meilan first started visiting Garden Park seven years ago, not long after he migrated to the city from the countryside. Hundreds of our people were laughing and chatting under the moon until midnight.” “It was my favorite time in the park,” he recalled. One brought along a Bluetooth speaker and played music for people to dance to. Around one hundred gay men - many of them migrant workers who lived nearby - were sitting on the handrails of a rock bridge, looking down at the artificial lake below some had brought traditional mooncakes and other snacks to share with friends in the moonlight. One of the best nights Meilan ever spent at Garden Park was an ordinary evening in the middle of autumn. They come to relax, chat, or cruise for sex in nearby trees or public toilets. In the dark, tightly packed urban villages of a South China industrial zone, Garden Park is an oasis for rural migrant gay men like Meilan.
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