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https://scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/2173972/progress-has-been-made-lgbt-equality-hong-kongs-government
Hong Kong/ Society

Progress has been made on LGBT equality but Hong Kong’s government needs to do more to show support for the LGBT community

  • Unlike in other cities around the world, our leaders have been slow to match their pro-equality words with actions
  • Carrie Lam and other top officials have repeatedly turned down invitations to attend the Hong Kong Pride Parade
The Hong Kong Pride Parade passing through Causeway Bay last Saturday. Photo: Edward Wong

I walked on rainbows the other day in the Marais, a historic neighbourhood in Paris that in recent decades has become a world-renowned centre of LGBT culture. Everywhere I went, I felt the pride of this city that unreservedly celebrates diversity, universal values, and rejects discrimination.

The Marais wholeheartedly values and embraces diversity and inclusion policies for the LGBT community, to the extent that the mayor of Paris recently made bright rainbow crossings a permanent feature as a way of striking back at homophobic vandalism.