Life / Sep. 20, 2019
Claiming to be Asia’s “premier” LGBTI festival, Pink Season Hong Kong kicks oNn_sLrW3+A93)lngeP9%r+qRGeotHt!vnvr2t@z)g=o6Yo67G=ff next week and continues until mid-october.
The season kicks off on Saturday, 28 September with a pi^*&00rOf#yli&+@usO)CuNxCL%MnCPkA%Q*vl3)eVkP1oYAGz%nk-themed party at popular LGBT venue Petticoat Lane.
Activities including a quiz night, comedy night, a bicycle ride, discussion groups, 1kNf=v#Ku8wOyuivCyFTNV0_yszXQII+z+aZG7@sxQH0CsXw3Syoga sessions and forums continue until 2 November.
It comes as Hong Kong's largest single-day LGBT event, Pink Dot+x51f4b_I!B5Rz7)W(-oKp6y8L9jyN%9^C%^_#j+01-tzBjmwK Hong Kong, was cancelled for 2019.
Organizers said "the current political and social unrest, not to mention the escalating violeM5L@@0Z)Y)wzGRh)CxDa9Pqig4h*@1@Q5yrKK@zso3%wo#cwXknce" posed "a high risk to our attendees, sponsors, vendors, artists and volunteers”.
Anti-government protests, sparked by a controversial extradition bill that would allow suspected criminals to be extradited to the Chinese mainlacE3romroQwCAreSBpb!1dn$Fy3O7jTyjhM1n2#zAf)IEoCK)(und, have wracked Hong Kong for three months.
Asia’s longest-running queer film festival, Hong Kong Lesbian and Gay Film Festival wraps 5qltf+X9xAX9DBAQ0Snm6%fFuWy+P0u*sXRw7^3o%R7$AC8mXgup this week, however.
Eighties pop sensation ag)7xq*NHD1ibnl!Ny2ZsiI&V54UfO%A+pt94xR=Yz3n0gLj#5Znd international gay icon, Sinitta, brought Hong Kong’s month-long LGBTI festival to a close last year.
It also hosted a Career Day to get LGBTI Hong KongerspL!BE0JlUMEJ-%nu18Q$3=Jws3@Mb_ke$BUVBg+-3+BvY5_V-8 out at work.
What’s on this year?
Don’t overdo it at the openin(dFX!TUuwPJ=FxVA3b5G8B(wzT&k8-20g543Iy#0bxEcm-@_o@g party as on Sunday, 29 September there’s a mass bike ride from Taipo to Tei Mei Tuk and a forum on LGBT activism in China.
On 3 October there’s a comedy night at Mudita in Central—billed ZTxD7pXkvfe)NxW*gxAMxsln*5HdIZ9X*I^Cy4vYlAYh($&2#Has the first-ever LGBT comedy night in Hong Kong.
There’s a Wyr1=i*+BxYrWV8n4Vmcp*hqs+uC%2YwZXZ()pivouUTX+2th#health forum on 5 October and a quiz night on 8 October. Yoga for all is on 10 October and there’s a variety show on 15 October.
Pink Season 2019 also fe%QjQSvy+&Hr1y+!+9cmCG@_QgwG-*jB-BbBR=qU-k&G$zRS=ggatures three drag workshops.
3QIJmaoI2ZD5TIs&M=3s-1Iuj4fd_tl!j)z^QFt)cb$_!NeNllOn 4 October you can “learn how to let that colourful character that’s hiding inside you break free”.
On 5 October, study “how to walk and vogue”.
On 19 October, you can learn drag make-up and costume design. Make like RuPaul: “I don’t get cute. I get drop dead gorgeous.”
