In China, LGBT activists fight against "gay therapy" and urge not to perceive homosexuality as a disease

In China, representatives of the LGBT community began to actively defend their rights. In many cities, gay parades are held, activists arrange protest actions, but society still can hardly perceive homosexuals. The proof is that in some Chinese clinics there is still special therapy, which, according to doctors, can “cure” homosexuality. With one of these clinics in the near future, the LGBT community will sue, reports BBC News .

Many doctors in the PRC still consider homosexuality a mental disorder, despite the fact that China has abandoned this statement in 2001. A striking example is one of the clinics in the city of Nankin - the city psychiatric consultation center. It is with her that gay activists will sue, who hope to change the idea of ​​homosexuality once and for all.

This clinic conducts "gay therapy", which supposedly saves people from this "disease". Dr. Zhou, who assures that he cures 70% of people who contacted him, did not tell how the “treatment” passes, but he noted that this is a long and difficult process. Evil tongues notice: a session of its therapy costs $ 120, which by Chinese standards quite a lot of money, so that a “long and difficult process” means “profitable”.

Zhou uses personal consultations, however, in many clinics throughout China, far from such humane methods are used. For example, Chinese doctors practice "disgust therapy." According to Zhou, she works like this: the "patient" is connected to the head of the electrodes and, as soon as he has a "gay thought", they give a discharge of current. Also, instead of current, drugs that cause pain are used. Activists even “on themselves” tried this therapy to collect evidence and use them in court.

In general, the Chinese gay community began to actively resist the beliefs that homosexuality is a disease. In several cities of the PRC, gay parades were held, including in Hong Kong, gay activists began to take more bold measures to draw attention to the problem and get support. A number of protests were organized - small in the number of participants, but bold in the context of the current conditions. For example, in Beijing at a medical conference, activists raised a banner with the inscription "to be gay - this is not a disease."