STOLEN PRIDEChina's LGBTQ population still encounters discrimination and lacks legal safeguards in a country that as recently as 2001 still classified being gay as a mental illness.Gay marriage is still not legally recognised, despite mounting calls to introduce it, especially among the younger generations.But major obstacles block their progress.President Xi Jinping has overseen a drive against anything considered antithetical to Communist Party values - leaving little room for gay pride.Beijing also frowns on large civil society mobilisations of any kind.In August, ShanghaiPRIDE - China's longest-running annual LGBTQ festival - abruptly announced it was shutting down for "the safety of all involved".No explanation was given for why the.