CHINA: GAY CONVERSION THERAPY ON TRIAL
A Chinese man is suing a gay conversion therapy clinic and a Chinese search engine for advertising the facility’s services. According to AFP, the gay man – known only as Xiao Zhen – claims that the Xinyu Piaoxiang clinic in the city of Chongqing left him traumatised with its use of electro-shock therapy while trying to […]
UGANDA ANTI-HOMOSEXUALITY ACT COULD BE STRUCK DOWN TOMORROW
Uganda’s Constitutional Court has begun hearing a petition to nullify the country’s oppressive Anti-Homosexuality Act. The petitioners opposing the law include high profile LGBT and human rights campaigners and groups, an MP, and a university professor. If their first argument about the legality of how the law was passed is accepted by the court, the […]