LGBT couples in China fighting to be counted in national census.

Activists are encouraging same-sex couples to disclose their relationships during the national census in China. (Photo: AFP)

Same-sex couples in China are seeking recognition in the country’s once-in-a-decade census, which officially began on November 1 after weeks of preliminary surveys.Homosexuality was decriminalised in China in 1997 but activists are still fighting for the legalisation of same-sex marriage. Now, as…