Beijing LGBT Center

The Beijing LGBT Center (北京同志中心) is a nonprofit organization focused on advancing gay, 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]

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]

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]

See also

References
  1. http://en.bjlgbtcenter.org.cn/s--195.html
  2. https://www.cnn.com/2015/10/01/asia/china-gay-proposal/
  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. 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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