A Chinese activist, actress, filmmaker, artist, and gay icon
Shitou (born 1969) is a Chinese activist, actress, filmmaker, multimedia artist,[1] and gay icon.[2] She has been active in the Chinese gay scene since the 1990s and was the first lesbian to come out on Chinese television.
^Engebretsen, Elisabeth Lund. 2008. Love in a big city: Sexuality, kinship, and citizenship amongst lala ('lesbian') women in beijing. Ph.D. diss., London School of Economics and Political Science (United Kingdom), p.234.