Page 2
-
Hong Kong has become a police state. So why are the Gay Games still being held there?
Dissent and community organizing of any kind is illegal in China – including pro-LGBTQ activism – and two of Hong Kong’s most prominent LGBTQ leaders have been caught in Beijing’s anti-democracy dragnet.
-
Beijing’s crackdown on pro-democracy lawmakers includes two LGBTQ rights leaders
Raymond Chan Chi-chuen, who was the Hong Kong legislature’s only out member, and Cyd Ho, who advocated for LGBTQ rights for years, are both in jail for dissent.
-
Hong Kong’s only gay lawmaker got into a brawl on the floor of parliament
Hong Kong lawmaker Ray Chan is kicking ass & taking names. Literally.
-
A man was arrested at Pride for stripping down to his underwear. Now he faces 6 months in jail.
Police were not amused by the 21-year-old walking around in his briefs.
-
Bigots roaring mad at ‘disgusting gay lions’ Pride display in Hong Kong
Homophobes claim they’re “causing annoyance to the feelings of many Hong Kong people as well as trampling on the existing family values”.
-
Airport security confiscated the ashes of this man’s husband
He wasn’t deemed next of kin.
-
Hong Kong lawmakers set to debate restrictive transgender rights bill
HONG KONG — Lawmakers in Hong Kong are set to debate a draft bill that if passed would codify an existing government policy that transgender people must undergo surgery to remove their genitals and construct new ones before they can qualify for legal recognition of their gender reassignment.
-
Hong Kong transgender woman wins legal battle to marry boyfriend
HONG KONG — Hong Kong’s top court granted a transgender woman the right to marry her boyfriend Monday in a watershed ruling that falls short of allowing same-sex marriage.
-
Male suitors flock to lesbian after wealthy father offers ‘marriage bounty’
The recently married lesbian daughter of a Hong Kong property and shipping tycoon has been flood with marriage proposals from male suitors after her father offered $65 million “marriage bounty” for any man who can win her heart and walk her down the aisle.
-
Hong Kong hires conversion therapy expert as social welfare trainer
Hong Kong has hired prominent local psychiatrist Hong Kwai-wah, who specializes in “treating unwanted homosexuality,” as a trainer for its social welfare staff.