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Lawsuit is part of a wider push by the LGBT community to use the courts to seek fairer treatment under the law where same- sex relations was illegal until 1997

The court ruled in favor of a Chinese gay man seeking recourse to compensation from a private psychological counseling center that used electric shocks to change his sexuality.

A Beijing court has agreed to hear a case against a Chinese clinic offering gay "conversion therapy" a move that activists hope will usher in an era or tolerance.