Last week I finally got to meet the lovely Meimei, one of the most notorious cross-dressing performers making the rounds of Beijing’s small but burgeoning homosexual cabaret scene. She was first brought to my attention via an excellent piece produced by my friend Anna Sophie Loewenberg, star of the long-running online series Sexy Beijing. Meimei also runs a private cross-dressing and S&M parlor. Such an independent business venture is a very new phenomenon in China and symbolizes the growing acceptance of the widening spectrum of sexual diversity in the country. I will be focusing on Meimei in the coming months, so expect more work concerning her story.