Organizers reported over 10,000 in attendance at the Hong Kong pride event on Saturday Nov. 25.
Taiwan News
Date: 2017/11/26
By: Taiwan News, Staff Writer
TAIWAN (Taipei News) – The LGBT community came out in large numbers yesterday for
File photo of Hong Kong Pride 2014 (By Wikimedia Commons)
the annual pride event in Hong Kong. Organizers reported over 10,000 in attendance at the march on Saturday Nov. 25.
Several Hong Kong legislators were also in attendance to show their support for the LGBT community in Hong Kong. This year the pride event was held against a back drop of a discussion in government about the status of transgender and intersex people in Hong Kong, and the issue changing one’s gender classification on legal documents.
Looking across the strait to Taiwan, many in the Hong Kong LGBT community are encouraged by the Taiwan LGBT community’s successful push for legislation to permit marriage between gay couples, which must be passed before May 2019.
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