湖君还介绍到，他们的线下活动包括了音乐、电影及各种各样的体育活动，并通过同伴教育的方式贯穿艾滋病预防知识的教育。运营经费则是主要来自于成员和一些NGO（”non-government organization”一词的缩写，是指在特定法律系统下，不被视为政府部门的协会、社团、基金会、慈善信托、非营利公司或其他法人，不以营利为目的的非政府组织，译者注）的捐助。

Coming out

关于出柜（英文”come out of the closet”的直译，指同志人群向周围的人公开自己同性恋的身份，译者注）

"It\'s difficult for our association to get recognition from others outside campus. Before joining Homoscu, some members didn\'t dare to accept their sex orientation, " Hu said.

湖君说到：“我们的社团本就不容易学校外的大众所认认同和认可，在加入Homoscu之前，一些成员甚至都不敢接受他们是同性恋的事实。”

Another SUC student surnamed Wang, outed himself during a public activity after joining Homoscu.

另一位川大学生小王加入Homoscu之后，在一次公开活动中出柜了。

"After my public announcement, most classmates and teachers support me. I\'m not as depressed as before," he told the Global Times. "Homoscu is really like my home."

“出柜之后，我的同学和老师大多都表示了支持和理解，我也因此也不像以前那么忧郁了，”他对记者说，“Homoscu真的就像我的家一样。”

However, not all the homosexual members are willing to come out of the closet. Few members told their families and most haven\'t made it public, according to Hu who has done so.

当然，并不是所有的成员都愿意出柜，只有极少数成员向家庭成员公开了身份，而大多数人都选择了沉默，小胡也是这样的一员。

Among them, lesbians usually keep a lower profile. None of them are willing to accept an interview with the Global Times.

而他们中的女同志则显得更为低调，因此也没有一位愿意接受本报的采访。

"We don\'t encourage or discourage them to come out because it\'s a personal choice. But that choice is closely related to the society\'s attitude to homosexuals," he said.

“因为这是个人事务，我们既不鼓励也不反对他们出柜，但这种选择往往与周围人对待同志人群的态度紧密相连。”

No longer a \'disorder\'

去病理化

Homosexuality was defined as a "mental disorder" until April 2001, when it was deleted from the Chinese Classification of Mental Disorders.

直到2001年4月份，同性恋才从《中国精神障碍分类及诊断标准》中去除，而在此之前，同性恋一直被明确定义为“精神障碍”（即人们常说的精神病，译者注）。

Chen Zhouchao, a 20-year-old computer sophomore at SUC, is straight and working for Homoscu.