BEIJING (AP) — Activists largely welcomed China's first national anti-domestic violence law on Monday, although some criticized the apparent omissions of sexual violence and gay couples.

BEIJING (CNN) -- In this narrow Beijing hutong, the rainbow flag flies free.

China has a plan to stop the spread of HIV among men.

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese authorities are requiring makers of online films to gain licenses and report their content before it is posted, tightening regulation of what in recent years has been a more freewheeling genre than China's traditional film industry.

(CNN) -- A university student has brought an unprecedented court case against China's Ministry of Education over school textbooks that she says "demonize" gays and lesbians.

In the first ruling of its kind in China, a Beijing court said on Friday that a psychiatric counseling center was in the wrong when it attempted to cure a 30-year-old man of homosexuality with a mix of hypnosis and electric shocks.

BEIJING (AP) — By day, Ma Baoli was a high-ranking officer in a seaside city police force. By night, he ran a website for gay people to share experiences and where he spoke under a pseudonym about the pressure he faced as a homosexual.

BEIJING (AP) - A month before Apple Inc.'s smartwatch hits the market, China's thriving copycat manufacturers are selling lookalikes, some openly advertised as Apple copies.

BEIJING (AP) — A gay Chinese man said Thursday he was suing a psychological clinic for carrying out electric shocks intended to turn him straight, as well as the search engine giant Baidu for advertising the center.

(AP) A Chinese transgender man said he was disappointed but will continue to fight for equality after a labor arbitration panel on Tuesday rejected his complaint that he was fired unfairly, in China's first transgender job discrimination case.

Sir Elton John is responding to the pranksters who punk'd him this week by posing as Russian President Vladimir Putin after the legendary musician urged the Russian despot to call him to discuss the country's controversial "homosexual propaganda law."

This week read about a school in China telling a gay student to "deal with" the bullying, and a Canadian school education board ordered to reform after numerous scandals.

This week read about a crowd preventing the arrest of a gay couple in Mexico, and a Chinese court ruling in favor of a textbook describing homosexuality as a disorder.

This week read about an LGBT haven facing pressure from Communist leaders, and the Biden administration promising to end a flawed asylum agreement with El Salvador.

This week read about a gay teen writing a letter to his neighbors pleading for help in escaping his homophobic father, and "boys' love" dramas blooming in China despite LGBT topics remaining taboo.

This week read about homophobic leaders losing in an election in Uganda, and education officials pushing for more masculinity in young males in China.

This week read about political attacks on "Ossan's Love" raising concerns about LGBT rights in China, and New Zealand introducing a bill to ban conversion therapy.

This week read about organizations fighting against anti-LGBT campaigns in Africa, and China banning accounts belonging to LGBT rights groups on a social media app.

Zhu Qiming is a gay video game designer based out of Beijing, China. His current project, “Rainbow Town,” is a life simulation game for smartphones in which users dress up their hunky avatars in stylish clothes and interact with other online users. 

BEIJING (CNN) -- The Beijing subway system might not sound like the most romantic place to pop the question, but it worked its charm for one gay couple in China.

(WB) Kamala Harris, accepting the nomination as vice-presidential candidate for the Democratic Party on Wednesday night, made denunciation of structural racism a cornerstone of her speech before the Democratic National Convention.

When Suzi Hollis lost her arm in a construction accident in 1996, it was the beginning of a painful journey. One that would take her through therapy, pill mills, steroids and finally to salt.

A leading Chinese sexologist's revelation that she's been living with a transgender man for 17 years has sparked a rare public discussion about China's largely invisible and marginalized transgender community.

BEIJING (CNN) -- Sun Wenlin has known he was gay since he was 12.

NEW YORK (AP) — Tony Award-winner Nathan Lane has tied the knot with playwright and producer Devlin Elliott.

Undercover activists secretly filmed their ordeal undergoing a barbaric gay "cure" therapy at a psychiatric hospital in Tianjin, China, the Mirror reports.

BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese psychological clinic was ordered Friday to pay compensation to a gay man who sued it for administering electric shocks intended to make him heterosexual, in what is believed to be China's first case involving so-called conversion therapy.