Mister pelling says that, you know, he screamed. He was really surprised, because even though he knew that this conversion therapy would involve electric shocks. The clinic was forced to apologize. And most important of all, the court came out with a ruling which stated that same sex attraction is not an illness.
In much of the world, things are improving for sexual minorities.
The opposite is true in China, where authorities are cracking down on the LGBT community. Bangladesh is suffering its worst flooding in living memory, but with a surprisingly low death toll (so far). And which city topped the EIU’s annual
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