Life / Sep. 20, 2019
Claiming to be Asia’s “premier” LGBTI FvK-i8LHyHlJRZmyaYjr2BsmWGF&o7xbH^&T*DJ_xEHizhkZ@mfestival, Pink Season Hong Kong kicks off next week and continues until mid-october.
The season kLfW6n*eHEb88IjOxzEhfWVXgf#bvJh&gWH%ONz(58uIouh_kH9icks off on Saturday, 28 September with a pink-themed party at popular LGBT venue Petticoat Lane.
Activities including elTb+g#-hoRDd&^XzAuY_x)@#WMYUf4@@qleD5#@5tJCXPOdp&a quiz night, comedy night, a bicycle ride, discussion groups, yoga sessions and forums continue until 2 November.
It comes as Hong KQ7%@mU&(XKIta3=hEBoK1Js0Y-l-eXg=ibVrT$n@t_0P!8WaQWong's largest single-day LGBT event, Pink Dot Hong Kong, was cancelled for 2019.
Organizers said "the current political and social unrest, not to mention the escalating violence" posed "+8xJ&epaI0&aX5GoWhv7g&fjel8N^zj#)p_4O!41!s%$t4)+uLa high risk to our attendees, sponsors, vendors, artists and volunteers”.
Anti-governgo2ZAzVQFuc**DmP_-hOkJTAFH^D&siyHtw16Pe(zu)KP6Y@x4ment protests, sparked by a controversial extradition bill that would allow suspected criminals to be extradited to the Chinese mainland, have wracked Hong Kong for three months.
AsiaWY)wJ2xYLq=C%I6Js3Y_Pi+tfn+NRF0yqM-#&a#qGETjo-J*eF’s longest-running queer film festival, Hong Kong Lesbian and Gay Film Festival wraps up this week, however.
Eighties pop sensation and international gay icon, Sinitta, brought Hong Kong’s month-long LGBTI festival to a J#ny6V_z3VipIp+BoL*bxdq=B5d7$rG=RZ5ATH3_^X2fWr3X8oclose last year.
It also hosted a Career Day to get LGBTc(S9)ZLPPR9!+Yerd1^CA3YWiI8egFSJM=T2a63(r&NuzT!23tI Hong Kongers out at work.
What’s on this year?
Don’t overdo it at the opening party as on Sunday, 29 September there’s a mass bike ril#%wHLrwjGt0FlklZa7b*Ysw)_wgbTh_oplPDvLDBeTqgFQ@*ade from Taipo to Tei Mei Tuk and a forum on LGBT activism in China.
On 3 October there’s LLZhc334wRnRkGlZxMBCptHZ48wqOeqE%n3d0r-aKsyw)vqGzja comedy night at Mudita in Central—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 xTbY1bu2S^3DOMwjV5Vsnn6V8G79^1PcKNfqfkH3^E)G2^n*lYon 10 October and there’s a variety show on 15 October.
Pink Season 2019 also features three drag workshoptmzhh!K&8v4U%h#&fmyY+(lH%rDbVHjftH@K7a5SDlq4)_VKUWs.
On 4 October you can “learn how to let t&z11!!-I4&0UgqwYHdoPR8wT=mABo@N-mFlp=BY3cW&5rwf0yKhat 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.”
