{"id":1541,"date":"2014-12-28T09:08:55","date_gmt":"2014-12-28T15:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=1541"},"modified":"2014-12-28T09:08:55","modified_gmt":"2014-12-28T15:08:55","slug":"chinese-court-rules-homosexuals-not-in-need-of-cure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/1541","title":{"rendered":"Chinese court rules homosexuals not in need of &#8220;cure&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By John Mack Freeman<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A Chinese court has ruled that homosexuals do not need to be &#8220;cured.&#8221; Further, it has ordered that a clinic that attempted to cure Yang Teng of his homosexuality via hypnotherapy and electroshock must pay restitution to the victim.<\/p>\n<p>This is another sign of progress in China, a country that has been slow to make advancements on LGBT rights. Homosexuality remained a mental illness in that country until 2001.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinknews.co.uk\/2014\/12\/19\/china-court-rules-homosexuality-doesnt-need-to-be-cured\/\">PinkNews<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mr Yang told <a href=\"http:\/\/hosted.ap.org\/dynamic\/stories\/A\/AS_CHINA_GAY_THERAPY?SITE=AP&amp;SECTION=HOME&amp;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&amp;CTIME=2014-12-19-04-11-59\">the Associated Press<\/a>: ?I?m very satisfied with the results, which I didn?t expect. The court sided with me, and it has supported that homosexuality is not a mental disease that requires treatment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Mack Freeman A Chinese court has ruled that homosexuals do not need to be &#8220;cured.&#8221; Further, it has ordered that a clinic that attempted to cure Yang Teng of his homosexuality via hypnotherapy and electroshock must pay restitution to the victim. This is another sign of progress in China, a country that has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":1542,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-glbt-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}