Gay man told blood challenge has stalled

A court in Beijing has thwarted attempts by a Chinese man to sue a Red Cross center in the capital after his blood donation was turned down because he was gay, Beijing Times reported on Thursday.

The man, an editor identified by his pen name Wang Zizheng, filed the lawsuit last month at a court in Haidian in northwest Beijing, in what local media said was the first such case in China.

According to Beijing Times, an official at the court told Wang on Wednesday his case had been rejected. No reason was given.