Explore our gay travel gui to Hong Kong featurg LGBTQ+ safety tips, gay rights , top ci & attractns, where to stay and more!
Contents:
- HONG KONG’S BT GAY SNAS
- HOW COVID-19 DERAILED THE 2022 GAY GAM BEFORE THEY EVEN BEGAN
- HONG KONG’S GAY RIGHTS ADVOT FEAR CIVIL CRACKDOWN MAY UNDO PROGRS
- UNTLED - GAY HONG KONG DS MAGAZE
HONG KONG’S BT GAY SNAS
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Hong Kong is gettg s first-ever gay datg TV show!
HOW COVID-19 DERAILED THE 2022 GAY GAM BEFORE THEY EVEN BEGAN
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Boystn is the creatn of out gay actor, host, and bs executive Vci Wong, who also serv as the host and producer of the new show.
Wong is also the executive director of Wong's Kong Kg Internatnal, a billn-dollar vtment holdg pany started by his was quoted an Oriental Daily News terview sayg that he unrstands a datg show featurg gay men might not be well-received by more culturally nservative elements of Hong Kong society, but he feels the show mak an important statement. I was there for a lbian and gay women’s happy hour hosted by the social group, L Pech. Hong Kong wasn’t exactly known for s progrsive attus toward LGBTQ rights and visibily, but I’d read about L Pech my Lonely Pla pocket gui and was terted to see how a gay women’s group ma space for self this changg cy.
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Dpe their salac reputatn, Hong Kong’s gay snas are a fairly standard part of life. Here are some of the bt Hong Kong. * hong kong gay magazine *
Wiv Abby Lee and Betty Grisoni, who’d reloted to Hong Kong for Lee’s work, found L Pech 2005 as a means to create a regular social event for gay and lbian women. Hong Kong’s predomantly tradnal attus toward genr rol and fay, bed wh an active polil prence of anti-LGBTQ evangelil groups, make difficult for gay, lbian, and transgenr people to exprs themselv openly, let alone nnect to others. Asi om the cigarette smoke and distct lack of dancg, I uld have been at any gay club the Uned Stat.
A lot has happened for gay rights Hong Kong sce my vis four years ago. While the lgs aren’t que the victory for LGBTQ rights as Taiwan’s legalizatn of gay marriage, they are still cisive turng pots toward equaly and possible harbgers for thgs to e. “The events help make people more aware of LGBTQ issu and people, ” Sabra Yang, Director of Sports for the 2022 Hong Kong Gay Gam, tells GO.
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The Challeng of Beg Gay Asia’s “World Cy”. Homosexualy is agast tradnal Che valu, acrdg to the general argument. However, 2018, a judicial review was filed by a woman known as MK who argued that the ernment’s refal to legalize gay marriage and civil unns vlated her rights to equaly and privacy, which are also guaranteed unr the Basic Law.
In 2011, the ernment’s Social Welfare Department me unr fire for hirg a gay nversn specialist associated wh a Christian mistry to lead a workshop preparg employe to work wh LGBTQ youth. But perhaps their most fluential act is the spreadg of misrmatn about the dangers of “homosexual culture, ” which n be damagg to both LGBTQ and non-LGBTQ parishners.
Ironilly, she says, that while the ernment and Evangelil church argue homosexualy is agast both Christian and Che valu, evince suggts that the valu of Hong Kongers are shiftg favor of acceptance. “Most of the gay women I know, pecially those who have a more feme appearance, choose not to e out the workplace bee they are not sure if their peers will judge them, ” Yang tells GO. In 2016, she started LGBT the Cy, a gay walkg tour of Hong Kong — the first of s kd Asia.
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Asi om amics, few people Hong Kong really know about the gay history of the terrory, Chick explaed to me a Skype terview. Unlike other ci, Hong Kong has no obv “gay” district, and s var s — often unknown — are sttered throughout the cy. The tour tak atten through current legal victori and to ltle-known gay bars, back streets, and snas ed for cisg.
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“There are so many thgs to digt, ” she tells GO, notg that people — both tourists and lols — want to know more about Hong Kong’s gay histori.
But while LGBTQ Hong Kong is beg more visible, there are still differenc how gay men and women handle their shared munal space. The more overt “scene” is still geared toward gay men; there are only three lbian bars pared to the more than 20 that lean male. Grisoni and Lee are still gog strong wh L Pech, but they’ve also been joed by LEZO, a new social group that aniz regular gathergs for gay and lbian women.