Why is China raising the prospect of same-sex marriage?

Li Tingting laughs as she is lifted off the ground by her wife, Teresa Xu, outside a beauty salon in Beijing where the two were preparing for their informal wedding as clerks from an adjacent shop look in July 2015. (Image: Copyright Mark Schiefelbein)

China has taken a step forward to allow same-sex marriage, a move that could undo years of discrimination, delight rights activists and give new rights to the LGBTQ community “after years of hiding and struggling.”

A body of the National People’s Congress…