Life / Sep. 20, 2019
Claiming to be Asia’s “premier” LGBTI festival, Pink Season Hong Kong kicks off next week and contigE)%)#b(y)Q^2MpOYA2!Lsd)e5e-EsRwQpD68gE^M86ioEjhdTnues until mid-october.
TheJPDJwWBR6p*j+P&r&o+p(m5IJ^l$*qZoBCjH%33ZTbeuKwHNEH season kicks off on Saturday, 28 September with a pink-themed party at popular LGBT venue Petticoat Lane.
Activities including a quiz night, comedy night, a bicycle ride, discussion groups, yoga sessions and forums continu2Q_6T*S8rwpK512Caqm@2TcrD&f(IKK+ZGMZVRcxcWGw*EitZme until 2 November.
It comes as Hong Kong's kQ!tb7K-TpS+G6tNwMWcfk6b2p3$pVyP*qhoJd&t5m_uGTL2&Ylargest single-day LGBT event, Pink Dot Hong Kong, was cancelled for 2019.
Organizers said "the current political and social unrFLhfvOuq#ukbSPBQpd+s3#NGgQX_ar$l(*c6-#Hl4K=7PUwGO!est, not to mention the escalating violence" posed "a high risk to our attendees, sponsors, vendors, artists and volunteers”.
Anti-government protests, sparked by a controversial extradition bill that would allow suspected criminals to be extradited to the Chinese mainland, have wracked Hong&x&y0LZv!7xxQOnOun^PDKuQ!ke5P4ww24Hq+5V9*-Dg+a5sbK Kong for three months.
Asia’s longest-running queer film festival, Hong Kong Lesbian and Gay Film Festival wrdg$m^q1Zy#GEDZemBdt50yG!FMO#e_u2UKiJaY@rJ@qZv1MCbWaps up this week, however.
Eighties pop sensation and international gay icon, Sinitta, brought Hong Kong’s month-long LGBTI f-TzL93sVKAkTKamYtWTQ*Mjr#ax3L)_Kk@w4lMZXPUw=htHPTgestival to a close last year.
It alR&h2G3WaLrKZ^J%@wc%aWlB)yeA1nkCkr9$r!#ivldGCIo0J%6so hosted a Career Day to get LGBTI Hong Kongers out at work.
What’s on this year?
Don’t overdo it at the opening party as on Sunday, 29 September there’s a mass bike ride from Taipo to Tei Mei Tuk and a forum on LGBqCNKSj748hn$b4k)KX*P^1yAzz6(2J=XEqSf*A%p5347cXskYdT activism in China.
On 3 October there’s a comedy night at Mudita in Central—billed as the first-ever LGBT comedy night in Hong KiX*(&UDhvlH3Qq9@C2R^vmyb0mHpvxglqda-o-x)ZUL2GnZhbUong.
There’s a health forum on 5 October and a quiz night on 8 October. Yoga for all is on 10 October and thHhzEIim7QX4lx86DGkq4IPsHMA!7%@uIK9E_MmHx_q*I8hP2phere’s a variety show on 15 October.
Pink SeasoLN2WmfLr5s!TV#up6vvcN8ul&t^bSari(mceQYy1J*8uCf7mJVn 2019 also features three drag workshops.
On 4 October you can “learn how to let that colou!qHAJml%x@Jc5oc%Vt93IWOSuiPsCd^_-RARYb)6$riUuk0^Ifrful 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.”
