Imagining Hong Kong Pride

Ok, I have to admit I am a bit tired for serious analysis so I guess it is nice to have some fun, and after all LGBT community is creative isn’t it? (I know it is stereotype again, I know.)

Maybe it would be fun to imagine Hong Kong Pride after 10 years? I wish it would be bigger, of course, and more fun. I don’t mean gay culture in West is the best (and “the West” is just a concept of course, it is not the same in… let’s say Poland and Sweden), but it is just nice to have fun sometimes.

I wish there would be more celebrities supporting. Of course gay icons such as my idol Anthony Wong, and others like Sandy Lam, at17, Chet Lam and Denise Ho (some said Prudence Liew is a Lesbian icon but I know nothing about it)… but it would be even better for those very straight acting people appear in the parade – it is diversity.

The LGBT bookstore in Stockholm

I wish there would be more different kinds of activities. I don’t mean parties. When I was in Stockholm I visited a LGBT bookstore – it is my all time favorite. Sometimes I feel Hong Kong LGBT community is lack of theories to back up. People struggle because they do not have the knowledge. I remember one of my interviewee (in honors project) told me she felt much better after taking gender studies in university. It is her case and my case as well, so I strongly believe knowledge improves the condition of this community.

Concert of Chet Lam and Eman Lam in October - all my lesbian friends were going there... of course also the show of Denise Ho just a few days after, basically you see 90% of young lesbian population there.

I wish people sing and dance. I know it is a bit silly but when the West have YMCA, Go West, I’ll survive and Dancing Queen, why don’t we also make our own anthem? I think it would be really fun, but please I don’t want a sad song… I mean, actually there are some popular songs in the community. Hmmm… refer to my gay friend, they like Sandy’s songs such as 沒結果 and 哭, but hey, it is so gloomy! Actually Denise Ho’s 光明會 is nice (and many said the song is refer to LGBT community), however my gay friend would not approve it I know (he would say, “I don’t like her.”).

Oh I am going to turn it into an essay… it is nice to imagine, indeed I just wish one day we do not need parade anymore – yeah, it is very contradicting.