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Grindr sells majority stake to Chinese firm for $93 million
Homosexuality is still generally considered taboo in China, but that didn’t stop a business entity from purchasing the hugely popular hookup app.
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China’s 1st domestic violence law makes no mention of gay or lesbian couples
Activists welcomed China’s first anti-domestic violence law on Monday, though some criticized the apparent omissions of sexual violence and gay couples.
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Sexologist’s relationship with transgender man spurs discussion in China
Li Yinhe’s revelation that she’s been living with a transgender man for 17 years has sparked a rare public discussion about China’s largely invisible and marginalized transgender community.
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Beijing court orders ‘ex-gay’ electric shock therapy clinic to compensate gay man
A clinic has been ordered to comensate to a gay man who sued it for administering electric shocks intended to make him heterosexual, believed to be China’s first case involving conversion therapy.
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Former cop launches Chinese gay dating app that grows to 15 million users
BEIJING — By day, Ma Baoli was a high-ranking officer in a seaside city police force. By night, he ran a website for gay people to share experiences and on which he spoke under a pseudonym about the pressure he faced being gay himself. After several years, the police force found out and told him he could not run a private website that was…
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WNBA star Brittney Griner victim of knife attack in China
WNBA star Brittney Griner felt fortunate to be OK after getting cut on the elbow in a knife attack in China. Griner sustained a small cut when she was attacked by a man while boarding a bus after practice Monday in Shenyang. The man, who followed the players onto the bus, also stabbed one of Griner’s teammates. She was wearing two jackets …
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Chinese man suing clinic for performing electric shock gay conversion therapy
BEIJING — A gay Chinese man said Thursday he was suing a psychological clinic for carrying out electric shocks intended to turn him straight, as well as the search engine giant Baidu for advertising the center. The Beijing LGBT Center, which campaigns for gay rights, said it was the first court case involving so-called conversion therapy in China. China declassified …
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Asia leaders join Sochi, not put off by Russia’s human rights record
When top Western leaders decided to stay away from Russian President Vladimir Putin’s Winter Olympics, he wasn’t exactly left friendless: he has the heads of leading Asian nations and others to help show the world that not everyone is put off by his human rights record and the anti-gay law he championed.
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Chinese police detain gay pride march organizer
BEIJING — Police in central China have detained the 18-year-old organizer of a gay pride march in a sign of the government’s nervousness over a growing civil society and demands for stronger individual rights.
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PFLAG chapter in China demands marriage rights for their gay children
GUANGZHOU, China — A PFLAG chapter in China has sent an open letter to delegates of China’s National People’s Congress demanding marriage equality for their children.