Beijing LGBT Center

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Beijing LGBT Center
北京同志中心
Formation14 February 2008[1]
Founded atBeijing, China
PurposeLGBT rights, research, and mental health support
Servicescounseling network, hotline
Executive director
Xin Ying[2]

The Beijing LGBT Center (北京同志中心) is Ia comprehensive non-profit organization dedicated to changing the living environment of Chinese gays (also known as “sexual minorities”), lesbian, bisexual, and transgender rights in China. The group was founded in 2008 and provides services such as an LGBT-friendly therapist network and a hotline for transgender individuals.[3][4]

In 2014, the center helped Yang Teng, a gay man, prepare a case against a clinic in Chongqing that had provided him with conversion therapy that included electroshock therapy. The case was successful and also led to search engine Baidu removing listings for conversion therapy.[5] Center employee John Shen and others went undercover for a 2015 episode of Channel 4's Unreported World exposing hospitals that provided electroshock therapy.[6][7]

Other activism taken by the center has included an event where volunteers wearing blindfolds and t-shirts reading "I am gay" were filmed with their arms out, soliciting hugs from passersby to protest social media platform Weibo's planned ban on gay content.[8][9] They also partnered with photographer Teo Butturini to create portraits of LGBT individuals living in China.[10] Their research includes a 2017 survey with Peking University on the mental health of transgender Chinese.[11]

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References[]

  1. ^ "发展历程" [development path]. Beijing LGBT Center (in Chinese).
  2. ^ Pamela Boykoff, Shen Lu and Serena Dong (October 2015). "Gay subway proposal an Internet hit in China". CNN. Retrieved 2020-11-22.
  3. ^ "Tsai Center Facilitates Collaborative Research on LGBT-Affirmative Therapy in China". law.yale.edu. Retrieved 2019-06-06.
  4. ^ "National transgender hotline launched in China". China Development Brief. Retrieved 2019-06-15.
  5. ^ Qian, Jinghua (19 May 2016). "LGBT Mental Health: Closet Prejudice Remains". Sixth Tone. Retrieved 2019-06-15.
  6. ^ Casparis, Lena de (2015-10-08). "Why We All Need To Watch Unreported World: China's Gay Shock Therapy". ELLE. Retrieved 2019-06-15.
  7. ^ Graham-Harrison, Emma; Connaire, Shaunagh (2015-10-08). "Chinese hospitals still offering gay 'cure' therapy, film reveals". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2019-06-15.
  8. ^ "LGBT activists ask strangers for hugs in China protest at Weibo censorship – PinkNews · PinkNews". www.pinknews.co.uk. 23 April 2018. Retrieved 2019-06-06.
  9. ^ "China's LGBT community treads cautiously amid intolerance". Reuters. 2018-05-21. Retrieved 2019-06-06.
  10. ^ Dickerman, Kenneth (10 October 2016). "Poignant portraits show what it's like being LGBT in China". Washington Post. Retrieved 5 June 2019.
  11. ^ "China's transgender people deprived of vital medical care, Amnesty says". South China Morning Post. 2019-05-10. Retrieved 2019-06-06.

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