Hong Kong Pride Parade organisers expect record crowd, with theme of legal equality for local LGBT community in 2018
- Event will take place on November 17, with organisers expecting 12,000 marchers
- Theme highlights all forms of legal equality LGBT community lacks in Hong Kong
The colourful costumes, banners, music and marchers of Hong Kong Pride Parade will fill main thoroughfares on Hong Kong Island on November 17, with organisers expecting a record turnout for the event’s 10th year, dedicated to legal equality for the local LGBT community.
Organisers said this year’s chosen theme, “Call for the Law, Equality for All”, looked broadly at all forms of legal equality that the LGBT community was lacking in Hong Kong, starting with a law to ban discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.
“Our main concern or key demand is the anti-discrimination ordinance, but we support all kinds of legal protection for LGBT equal rights,” parade committee member Yeo Wai-wai said on Tuesday.
“We chose ‘for all’ because that means legal protection broadly speaking for LGBT people, like the spousal visa and gender recognition law.”