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The Naked Truth

Chinese clinics still push this debunked conversion therapy

Conversion therapy has been widely disproven and debunked around the world. But it still takes place in China where tradition and laws discriminate against LGBTQ people. Fusion gained exclusive access to a man who sought the therapy, sued the company when it didn’t work, and later went undercover to show the practices these clinics offer.

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The Naked Truth

Brave LGBTQ activists in China are demanding acceptance and equal rights

The Naked Truth: China Queer is the culmination of almost two years of reporting that includes exclusive undercover footage from an LGBTQ activist who works to expose clinics that try to convert gays with medically baseless therapy and a shocking recording of a man held against his will in a mental hospital for being gay. …

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Politics

North Carolina's Governor Tries and Fails to Sell the Anti-LGBTQ Bill He Just Signed

IMAGE DISTRIBUTED FOR HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN - Cassandra Thomas of Human Rights Campaign holds a sign advocating the repeal of HB2 as Executive Director Chad Griffin, President of Human Rights Campaign and Executive Director of Equality NC, Chris Sgro, discuss the North Carolina election results at the Government Center on Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2016, in Charlotte, NC. (Brian Gomsak/AP Images for Human Rights Campaign)

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Don't Be Fooled—The HB2 'Repeal' Is Still Terrible

FILE - In this Saturday, June 25, 2016. file photo, members of LGBT carry a huge rainbow flag as they march around the Rizal Park to celebrate the annual "Pride March"in Manila, Philippines. Several LGBT organizations are calling for the passage of an Anti-Discrimination bill that they say would protect the LGBT community .(AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

Politics

The Trump administration decides it doesn't want to know about LGBTQ people after all

FILE- In this March 24, 2016, file photo, people protest outside the North Carolina Executive Mansion in Raleigh, N.C. Tennessee businesses have banded together to try to convince their state legislators to snub laws similar to the infamous bathroom bill in North Carolina, which has consumed that state's politics for months and scared off businesses and sporting events. (AP Photo/Emery P. Dalesio, File )

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We now know just how much North Carolina's transphobic bathroom bill is going to hurt its economy

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She was an ultraconservative Texas Christian. Then Kai was born and everything changed.

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LGBT

A transphobic 'free speech' bus hit the streets of New York—and was immediately vandalized

FILE - In this May 17, 2016, file photo, a new sticker designates a gender neutral bathroom at Nathan Hale high school in Seattle. A federal judge in Texas is blocking for now the Obama administration's directive to U.S. public schools that transgender students must be allowed to use the bathrooms and locker rooms consistent with their chosen gender identity. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)

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An Oregon resident just made gender identity history

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Alphonza Watson is the eighth trans person reported killed in 2017

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Sex

Why can't we accept straight men who have gay sex?

CHICAGO, IL - FEBRUARY 25: Demonstrators protest for transgender rights on February 25, 2017 in Chicago, Illinois. The demonstrators were angry with President Donald Trumps recent decision to reverse the Obama-era policy requiring public schools to allow transgender students to use the bathroom that corresponds with their gender identity. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

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Cisgender high school student sues after 'humiliation' of changing in front of trans classmate

SACRAMENTO, CA - MARCH 19: Lonzo Ball #2 of the UCLA Bruins drives to the basket as Kyle Washington #24 of the Cincinnati Bearcats defends during the second round of the NCAA Basketball Tournament at Golden 1 Center on March 19, 2017 in Sacramento, California. (Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images)

Sports

UCLA just showed that March Madness trumps standing up for LGBTQ people

LONDON, ENGLAND - JUNE 25: Daisy Thwait, 1, watches the Pride parade with her father as the LGBT community celebrates Pride in London on June 25, 2016 in London, England. Across the city performances and speeches take place as a parade makes it way through the centre ending in Trafalgar Square. 2016 Pride in London comes just two weeks after Omar Mateen shot dead 50 people at Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida. (Photo by Chris J Ratcliffe/Getty Images)

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Arkansas rejected a bill to allow gay parents to be listed on their kids' birth certificates

FILE - In this June 26, 2016, file photo, a woman holds a rainbow flag during the NYC Pride Parade in New York. Young Americans overwhelmingly say they support LGBT rights when it comes to employment, health care and adoption. That’s according to a new GenForward survey, which finds 92 percent of young adults support HIV and AIDs prevention, 90 percent support equal employment, and 80 percent support LGBT adoption. Across ethnic groups, large majorities of Americans aged 18 to 30 favor training police on transgender issues, government support for LGBT youth organizations and insurance coverage for transgender health issues. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

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These two civil rights cases are sparking the next battle for LGBTQ rights

Inmate Ahmed, center, and other women chant along during a rally at Washington Square Park, part of International Women's Day Strike NYC, Wednesday, March 8, 2017, in New York. The group is a coalition of dozens of grassroots groups and labor organizations. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

Women

Trump picks anti-LGBTQ hate group leader and abstinence advocate to represent U.S. at global meeting on women’s issues

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Beauty and the Beast's new gay character isn't nearly as modern as Disney wants you to think

Former Vice President Joe Biden speaks during an event to formally launch the Biden Institute, a research and policy center focused on domestic issues at the University of Delaware, in Newark, Del., Monday, March 13, 2017. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

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Joe Biden slams Trump's terrible record on trans rights in passionate speech

Members of the transgender community take part in a rally on the steps of the Texas Capitol, Monday, March 6, 2017, in Austin, Texas. The group is opposing a "bathroom bill" that would require people to use public bathrooms and restrooms that correspond with the sex on their birth certificate. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

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A horrible, transphobic bathroom bill just cleared a major hurdle in Texas

In this photo taken Monday, May 9, 2016 Gov. Pat McCrory makes remarks regarding House Bill 2 during a news conference in Raleigh, N.C. The North Carolina governor's race is everything voters anticipated it would be: expensive attack ads and barbed debates before what's essentially a referendum on the state's recent rightward tilt under Republican rule, particularly the state law limiting protections for LGBT people _ known as House Bill 2. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome, File)

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North Carolina's ex-governor is whining about how his transphobia has hurt his job prospects

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This Afro-Latina teen thinks the struggle for trans rights needs more voices

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The murder of a trans woman of color has taken an overdue step toward justice

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Women

Here are the voices of women who couldn't strike

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Race

A young Native American leader on why feminism and fighting for the planet go hand in hand

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LGBT

Watch this queer Texas woman brilliantly shred the argument for a transphobic bathroom bill

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'I have love on my side': Read Gavin Grimm's inspiring words about his fight for trans rights

In this Feb. 28, 2017, photo, Attorney General Jeff Sessions pauses while speaking at the National Association of Attorneys General annual winter meeting in Washington. Sessions had two conversations with the Russian ambassador to the United States during the presidential campaign. The Justice Department said March 1 that the two conversations took place last year when Sessions was a senator. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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The Trump administration is pulling out of a fight against North Carolina's infamous anti-trans law

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'Stonewall is a pro-cop bar': The paradox of being an LGBTQ gentrifier

DURHAM, NC - MAY 10: Unisex signs hang outside bathrooms at Toast Paninoteca on May 10, 2016 in Durham, North Carolina. Debate over transgender bathroom access spreads nationwide as the U.S. Department of Justice countersues North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory from enforcing the provisions of House Bill 2 (HB2) that dictate what bathrooms transgender individuals can use. (Photo by Sara D. Davis/Getty Images)

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SCOTUS just punted on the trans 'bathroom bill' case. What now?

FILE - In this Monday Aug. 22, 2016 file photo, transgender high school student Gavin Grimm poses in front of his home in Gloucester, Va. The Supreme Court will take up transgender rights for the first time in the case of a Virginia school board that wants to prevent Grimm, a transgender teenager from using the boys' bathroom at his high school, Friday, Oct. 28, 2016 . (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)

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The Supreme Court just declined to hear a major trans rights case—thanks to Trump

WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 01: Activists participate in a rally to support Planned Parenthood March 1, 2017 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Planned Parenthood held a 'We Are Planned Parenthood Capitol Takeover Day' to lobby legislators not to defund the organization. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Women

Talking to Planned Parenthood about the huge steps they've taken to help trans people

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Alabama movie theater boycotting Disney's 'Beauty and the Beast' over its new gay character

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Sports

Watch this Texas sportscaster's amazing defense of the trans boy who was forced to wrestle girls

FILE This Tuesday Aug. 25, 2015 file photo shows Gavin Grimm on his front porch during an interview at his home in Gloucester, Va. A U.S. appeals court has overturned a policy barring a transgender student from using the boys' restrooms at his Virginia high school.
A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday, April 19, 2016 that the Gloucester County School Board policy is discriminatory. A federal judge had earlier rejected Grimm's sex discrimination claim. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

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Read the moving testimonies of 101 trans people who wrote to SCOTUS in support of Gavin Grimm

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The murders of trans people are a crisis we can't ignore

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It only took 80 years for Disney to give us its first gay character

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The trans sister of Trump inauguration singer just scored a major victory for trans rights

February 28, 2017

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Sports

Meet the country's first openly gay scholarship football player

February 27, 2017

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Race

After Moonlight's win, stories of gay Southern black men like me are no longer 'niche'

February 27, 2017

Host Jimmy Kimmel speaks at the Oscars on Sunday, Feb. 26, 2017, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)

Environment

Jimmy Kimmel's turn hosting the Oscars was filled with casual racism

February 27, 2017

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