Chinese sociologist Pan Guangdan has documented acceptance of same-sex relationships in China going back thousands of years, suggesting that tolerance for LGBTs may be coming full circle in the People’s Republic of China.

Pan made the discovery while translating the 1933 Havelock Ellis book Psychology of Sex from English into Chinese.

Ellis was the first person to author a medical textbook on homosexuality and the book inspired Pan to see what evidence there was for homosexuality in Chinese historical documents.

More than half of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Italian people think that their future will be worse than their present and fear getting older.

That is the result of a survey conducted in Italy by the sociologist Raffaele Lelleri and sponsored by a union, Spi-Cgil, and by LGBT association Equality Italia.

More than 55% of the interviewees expressed a ‘strong’ fear of getting old, while the same amount of people said that their future will be a troubled one.

A controversial study into same-sex parenting that claimed to show that children of same-sex couples had worse outcomes has been dismissed as ‘bullsh-t’ by the professor assigned to evaluate the peer review process that lead to it being published.

The paper ‘How different are the adult children of parents who have same-sex relationships? Findings from the New Family Structures Study’ by University of Texas sociologist Mark Regnerus was published earlier this year by the journal Social Science Research.

Despite previous failures, a leading pro-gay sociologist in China has started rallying supporters for a same-sex marriage bill for the fourth time.

Li Yinhe, a researcher from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, is now asking for backing from some 3000 members of the National People’s Congress, the country’s parliament, who are having their annual meetings in Beijing.