Life / Sep. 20, 2019
Claiming to be Asia’s “premier” LGBTI festival,Qg4tZE4Z5InqoM4slVVt)M#%3w=3ds$4pw!dx0T_q93)Ou^1Rq Pink Season Hong Kong kicks off next week and continues until mid-october.
The season kicks off on Saturday, 28 September [email protected]@kXlsxvk*[email protected]%Z1_z2rkOAk3&z$with a pink-themed party at popular LGBT venue Petticoat Lane.
Activities incluo#[email protected]_3seU)w9v61xasb7KRDn$yKF50EzyaXMP$D6cQtding a quiz night, comedy night, a bicycle ride, discussion groups, yoga sessions and forums continue until 2 November.
It comes as Hong Kong's largest single-day LGBT event, Pink Dot Hong Kong, was cancelled for g2zfq#YxfR#!Td_%R#ii&vYim9Q!0N^Pa1n$=Wj-xu*V2xQ7vS2019.
Organizers said "the current politica1#u-&p%!DG+bnnAYqZXnY_%gxvCle78zf#)FMXA(7fm5ws=j7Gl and social unrest, not to mention the escalating violence" posed "a high risk to our attendees, sponsors, vendors, artists and volunteers”.
Anti-government protests, sparked by a controversial extradition bill tezRxQgJSG2yCnoU*[email protected](_a40#+ZI2tU%ru=m0-maT$4hat would allow suspected criminals to be extradited to the Chinese mainland, have wracked Hong Kong for three months.
Asia’s longest-running queer film festival, Hong KGr#CVKPW3L&1_T=CnKkQyMl=cGPuXsL_cNllEB7nuSMF+%Eigqong Lesbian and Gay Film Festival wraps up this week, however.
Eighties pop s_I3nocY1E_Rb-^[email protected]!Raf1ROg9MbHS&JTEI=jwN0g1IC5pU&1Bensation and international gay icon, Sinitta, brought Hong Kong’s month-long LGBTI festival to a close last year.
It also hosted a Career Day to get LGBTI Hong Konge!^j=()B&LGuWuwX*YTR^w#(PO$+*5wzo()bTeBUSB4bqYpnp#irs out at work.
What’s on this year?
Don’t overdo it at the openin3f90J-f)%[email protected]=o(z-ifD6&Kgvg 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 _7hjBYwH2([email protected](q)g$CRD4LAVrXVEWmnmR%mPvLFXdy2MgdgCentral—billed as the first-ever LGBT comedy night in Hong Kong.
There’s a health forum on 5 October and a quiz night on 8 October. Yoga for all is onERSvRbyZ*rkAWDV$u==#lr+Uc7F(vVUDN+6PI#rpSQYt&fv60a 10 October and there’s a variety show on 15 October.
Pink Season 2019yu6r_g)pnzlQyVTIzUF8Qr%3NU*u=zYpIX8GF7P*$JPb^6DYWm also features three drag workshops.
On 4 October you can “learn 2+R)G_wsbTKpkZi#%OsqI54r#Ti-gQZY*I4ZP1()URthl-CPRahow 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.”
