Life / Sep. 20, 2019
Claiming to be Asia’s “premier” LGBTI festival, Pink Season Hong Kong kicks off =IRAWn@cnzf0EYXEXwN9yN8K=qM*oW_Nh-5xd@X0z=9F@QMrEcnext week and continues until mid-october.
The season kicks off on Saturday, 28 September with a pink-themed party at popular LGBTHaZ-LmybPF+HUlO88o@tT@bS--54MRT1P8UkAqANcp==GiC6WL venue Petticoat Lane.
Activities including aM=KdvnYs^-0)n4d5zQie($8_7eUh!UZ5t(Jj5tY5(^Uy-1U_h# quiz night, comedy night, a bicycle ride, discussion groups, yoga sessions and forums continue until 2 November.
It comes as Hong Kong's largest single-day LGBTMcRrDzvslKUNC&2lQS8#e%Ale)+j+9S$bOE!^1fP2mk@dnsMFp event, Pink Dot Hong Kong, was cancelled for 2019.
Organizers said "the current political and social unrest, not to menz_fpQ&0dnMS8YQDuUry6rOytYcX73(L_#NW@IA=@FIW7B8qp9ution the escalating violence" posed "a high risk to our attendees, sponsors, vendors, artists and volunteers”.
Anti-government protests, sparked by a controversial extradition bill thatIl24P*!&c0&#I#vL$Js))x^6v=!*mnABF#^^C_O)kLuQRsMWW* would allow suspected criminals to be extradited to the Chinese mainland, have wracked Hong Kong for three months.
Asia’s longest-running queer film festivac7s8=HV#bB-#loxjHhfD_FO%OUtUC$J9y**EX2HTJXYfm-3&RPl, Hong Kong Lesbian and Gay Film Festival wraps up this week, however.
Eighties pop sensation and international gay icon, Si5MG$bFw!!L8+fROPmZobRpdukYoPpUH(R_83_fsQLKo8gsNA7unitta, brought Hong Kong’s month-long LGBTI festival to a close last year.
It also hosted a Career Day to get LGBTI HoIG!-e(tcLQ*%2e@48fR0cfvL_RzM!0RvjyHnOq$OabWTAjbazJng Kongers out at work.
What’s on this year?
Don’t oi*juBZ9(MEVu)h2vWtnUa*@^XhJW3U=ogayvXmqf+3Yr_!QIEWverdo it at the opening 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 as the first-ever LGBT conrC4EhAjB4Usik!*d#N#!a7HIDV-_X82wzS@=5mnGt&aqCjawWmedy night in Hong Kong.
There’s a health forum on 5 October and a quiz night on 8 October. Yoga for all is on 10 October and tqtqk9_72xX2)p+1wBs*wpCCjopNd7T_#Vcb5##oD&hT0G7&S08here’s a variety show on 15 October.
Pink Season 2019 &2*O1OMRXq^C$JHODW%f1Cozq&CWe5ffr2I%sg!20MNwDg$2fLalso features three drag workshops.
On 4 October you can “learn h2o9Or=n#n(D_7hOiWUf*tgJf_Q1_gZyJX2o7#R6hNO+Td#sOq^ow 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.”
