1/30/2024 0 Comments Gay pride day 2008![]() ![]() In early 2005, the Home Affairs Bureau began consulting LGBT groups on the feasibility of enacting the Sexual Orientation Discrimination Ordinance (SODO), and on 29 April of the same year, the Hong Kong Alliance for Family advertised its opposition to the SODO in a four-page spread on Ming Pao, with some 9800 individuals and 374 organizations signing its petition. International Day Against Homophobia & Transphobia (IDAHO) The first Hong Kong Pride Parade received a great deal of positive coverage in the press. Organizers noted in interviews that they aimed for a show of respect and dignity amongst the tongzhi community that will sound out their closeted ‘comrades’. About one hundred people attended the event, along with a number of colourful outfits. The parade began at 6pm with a procession around the Lan Kwai Fong area. The Hong Kong Pride Parade saw its inception in Hong Kong on 15 October 2004, in coordination and joint sponsorship with LGBT organization Horizons, ninetysevengroup under Lan Kwai Fong Restaurant Group, and event specialists from House of Siren.
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