China activists fight gay ‘conversion therapy’

Gay rights activists in China are preparing for what they say could be a legal milestone in their fight to stop homosexuality being treated as an illness.

 

Later this month, a Chinese court will hear the first case of its kind brought against a clinic that offers so-called “gay conversion therapy”.

 

A long campaign in Europe and America has been successful in shifting the medical consensus against such treatment, and now campaigners want Chinese doctors to follow suit.

Read More: BBC News – China activists fight gay ‘conversion therapy’.