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BEG GAY CHA HAS GOTTEN HARR UNR XI JPG

A more assertive, self-reliant Cha has rulted  a subtle but nstant narrowg of gay spacPhotographer: GREG BAKER/AFPHello, I’m Colum Murphy, a reporter on our Cha ernment team based Beijg, wh a look at the steady erosn of gay life Cha.

First, here are your headl: This week’s top stori:Up NextBeg Gay Cha Has Gotten Harr Unr Xi Jpg. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTA lawsu brought by a stunt is part of an effort to get schools, edors and publishers to regnize that beg gay is not a mental Ho for The New York TimEarly llege, Ou Jiayong had already learned two thgs.

And two, n be hard to change them — pecially on topics as sensive Cha as 2016, durg her first year at South Cha Agricultural Universy her hometown, Guangzhou, she stumbled across a psychology textbook that scribed beg gay as a mental a lbian, Ms.

Her se has renewed the nversatn about tolerance and human rights a untry where discrimatn based on sexual orientatn is rampant and where homosexualy has long been seen as patible wh the tradnal emphasis on a letter to the judge, Ms.

“It brought back memori of beg lghed at by my classmat bee of my homosexualy, ” she wrote the letter, which her lawyer read aloud urt this summer, three years after the su was judge was unswayed. Ou’s se stunned many people who had no ia that some textbooks still classified homosexualy as a disease, said Peng Yanzi, director of L. Cg a survey that a rearch group nducted 2016 and 2017, out of the 91 psychology textbooks ed Che universi, almost half of them said that homosexualy was a type of disease.

Three weeks after the verdict, a school Jiangsu said would amend a health tn manual after an ter er highlighted a phrase that said: “Homosexualy go agast the laws of nature.

“Many admire her for dog this for three years, particular gay people, who are enuraged by this kd of bravery, ” he recent years, L. Muni have been assertg their rights more forcefully, sug “gay nversn” clics, employers and even the ernment. This year, as Cha prepared to adopt s first civil , activists led an unsuccsful ph for the legalizatn of same-sex marriage, floodg legislators wh more than 230, 000 onle suggtns and though Cha crimalized homosexualy 1997 and removed om an official list of psychiatric disorrs 2001, discrimatn persists employment, health re and other areas.

In 2015, a stunt sued the Mistry of Edutn over textbooks that scribe homosexualy as an afflictn, argug that the ernment was rponsible for ensurg the books’ qualy and should disclose s approval procs; she lost two years later. In 2014, a Che urt orred a clic to pensate a man who unrwent electroshock therapy signed to “cure” homosexualy, sayg the clic had mted nsumer sug for discrimatn is harr bee Che law do not protect people based on their sexual inty. Ou’s lawsu was uched as a vlatn of nsumer rights, wh her lawyers argug that there were dozens of typos and other errors the 2013 edn of “Mental Health Edutn for College Stunts, ” a wily ed most egreg error, they said, was this phrase: “Compared wh the sexual orientatn of most people, homosexualy n be seen as a mental disorr or a nfn of sexual sir.

” Sce homosexualy is no longer on Cha’s official list of psychiatric disorrs, the phrase is factually rrect and the publisher should be held liable, said Leon Ge, Ms. Stunt group at another scribed the huiatn she felt her hman year when she participated a bate about whether a gay uple uld form a fay. Ou how she would feel if she were surround by gay people.

“I’m gay, ” Ms.

” France-Prse — Getty ImagShe took the publisher to urt the next year, driven by her classmat’ rogatory ments as well as the suici of a gay stunt at a Guangzhou universy the hearg was fally schled for this summer, Ms.