China: Homosexual man wins legal victory over forced ‘gay conversion therapy’

The incident began in October 2015, when Yu, a 38-year-old homosexual, was sent to a mental hospital – against his will – in Henan by his wife and family members. 

Kenya: Contextualizing willingness to participate: recommendations for engagement, recruitment & enrolment of Kenyan MSM in future HIV prevention trials

This is a rich paper, giving insights into the reasons that people do or do not want to participate in vaccine trials.  It raises plenty of ethical questions about the balance between self-interest, altruism, coercion and consent. 

Germany: How dinner with a lesbian couple changed Angela Merkel's position on same-sex marriage

“If the youth welfare service entrusts a lesbian couple with eight foster children, then the state could no longer use child welfare as an argument against adoptions,”

Will the UN “Leave No One Behind” and Improve LGBTI Health and Well-Being?

While there has been progress in researching the health and well-being of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) people and responding to certain emerging health threats in high-income countries – elsewhere in the world such research is inadequate and incomplete.

US: More and More States Are Outlawing Gay-Conversion Therapy

Rhode Island is poised to be the fourth state in 2017 to ban the damaging practice.