Activists call for anti-discrimination law after video shows women abusing gay Hong Kong lawmaker Raymond Chan

Gay rights activists yesterday renewed their call for an anti-discrimination law after two women hurled abuse at openly gay lawmaker Raymond Chan Chi-chuen on an MTR train.

Chan said he would soon file complaints to the Equal Opportunities Commission and the Constitutional and Mainland Affairs Bureau to highlight the lack of protection given to sexual minorities, who are not covered by anti-discrimination laws.

Forty-six groups launched a petition urging the administration to address the "worsening" climate of homophobia in Hong Kong as the incident was only the tip of the iceberg.

In a two-minute video uploaded to YouTube by Chan on Sunday, a woman wearing sunglasses called him a "rubbish councillor" and said he should "go to die" if he could not stand it.

She went on: "You d**k-less man. You deserve not having a d**k. Only three inches. Shameless." Her abuse then became even more explicit.

Another woman, apparently her friend, called him a "mad dog" who barked all the time.

The video went viral and had received more than 430,000 views as of yesterday.