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Identity
News, articles and features on the topic of identity with a millennial focus, covering gender, LGBT, race, sexual orientation and equal rights.
One of Iris Sham’s dinners exploring food and social injustice. Photo: Iris Sham
Food and Drinks

How Hong Kong’s LGBTQ chefs are feeding something deeper

In a city where traditional fine dining reigns, these chefs are getting creative, from May Chow to Iris Sham.

Good Schools Guide

Adolescence and masculinity: shaping male roles in a social media-led world

Hong Kong society

Opinion | Same-sex recognition attests to Hong Kong’s rule of law and vitality

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Profile

Profile | ‘Why is her Cantonese so good?’ Indian Hongkonger on social media fame

Pranali Gupta, known as New Dellily online, bridges Hong Kong and Indian cultures through her engaging vlogs and clips on social media.

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Hong Kong resident Pranali Gupta on her YouTube channel NewDellily. Photo: Youtube / NewDellily
Editor's Letter

This week in PostMag: a queer-friendly football team, Innsbruck and Michelin

Discover what belonging means through a London football team for the Asian diaspora; how lone Michelin-starred restaurants operate in Thailand; and more.

LGBTQ

Inside Hong Kong’s ballroom scene, a safe haven for queer expression

Kiki House of Sassy Savage, inspired by a global proliferation of ballroom subculture, is building a safe space for queer expression.

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Donald Trump

US Supreme Court lets Trump’s transgender military ban take effect

The decision could trigger the discharge of thousands of transgender troops under the US president’s orders.

Children hold signs and transgender pride flags as supporters of transgender rights rally by the US Supreme Court in December. Photo: AP
Performing arts in Hong Kong

Hedwig and the Angry Inch rock musical coming to Hong Kong in Cantonese

The musical, which follows scarred genderqueer singer Hedwig on tour, has dropped the original glam rock and will be in Cantonese.

Icons and Influencers

Who is Ada Gallagher, the transgender teen setting school track records?

A high school in Oregon has sparked debate after allowing a transgender athlete to compete – and dominate – in a girls’ track competition, where she finished first in the 400- and 200-metre races.

Celebrity children

Who is Daniel Baldwin’s son Atticus Baldwin, who’s followed in his footsteps?

Alec Baldwin’s nephew Atticus Baldwin is opening up about the changes he hopes to see in Hollywood, as he takes on a role in hit YouTube show God’s Gang.

Daniel Baldwin’s son, Atticus Baldwin, is an actor and advocate for individuals with autism. Photos: Atticus Ace Baldwin/Facebook
Profile

Musician Bolis Pupul’s return to the home he never knew

Pupul’s latest album, Letter to Yu, is a love letter to his late mother inspired by her hometown, Hong Kong, and a reckoning with the roots he once tried to keep buried.

Musician Bolis Pupul pictured in Hong Kong in 2023. Photo: Bieke Depoorter/Magnum Photos
Indonesia

Indonesian court’s ruling on citizens’ religion sparks discrimination fears

Rights activists say the court’s decision could reduce religion to a bureaucratic formality and ‘thicken religious polarisation’.

Icons and Influencers

What is controversial internet personality Oli London up to now?

It’s been hard to keep up with Oli London’s multiple transformations in recent years, but now the internet personality has found God, and is trying to prevent others from ‘following in his footsteps’

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Profile

How a trans social worker found community and acceptance in Hong Kong

Sakura Lam, a social worker and trans advocate, talks about finding herself, family acceptance and helping others.

Sakura Lam poses for a photo at Eaton House in Jordan, Hong Kong. Photo: Jocelyn Tam
South Korea

At 81, she almost became South Korea’s Miss Universe

Choi Soon-hwa missed out on the crown at the beauty pageant in Seoul on Monday – but did take home the ‘best dresser award’.

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Choi Soon-hwa competes at the 2024 Miss Universe Korea pageant in Seoul. Photo: AP
Russia

Russian MPs back adoption ban on ‘sick’ countries allowing gender reassignment

Moscow has long portrayed itself as a bulwark against liberal values, but that trend has hugely accelerated since the Ukraine war began.

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Hong Kong

The future of filmmaking in Hong Kong, according to the next generation

The fate of the Fresh Wave film festival that’s nurtured generations of budding directors now hangs in the balance after the arts council slashed funding

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Celebrity children

Meet Denzel Washington’s talented movie director son, Malcolm Washington

From studying film at Pennsylvania University to being Spike Lee’s assistant and now bringing August Wilson’s famous play to Netflix, here’s what to know about Denzel Washington’s youngest son

The Piano Lesson director Malcolm Washington with stars Danielle Deadwyler and John David Washington. Photo: @ThePianoLessonFilm/X
Pakistan

SheDrives: Pakistan’s transgender community get its first ride-sharing service

SheDrives will service only trans people and women. Trans people are considered outcasts by many in predominantly Muslim Pakistan.

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South Korea

South Korea’s nominated human rights chief sparks uproar over anti-LGBTQ stance

Ahn Chang-ho, who opposes anti-discrimination laws, also rejects the theory of evolution and wants creationism lessons in schools

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Australia

Australian transgender woman wins landmark case against female-only app

The case marks the first time that the Federal Court has made a ruling on gender identity discrimination since changes were made to the Sex Discrimination Act in 2013.

Roxanne Tickle leaves the Federal Court of Australia in Sydney on Friday. Photo: EPA-EFE
Sex and relationships

In China, a woman’s custody battle spotlights challenges of same-sex couples

LGBTQ families have no law to cite when faced with situations like custody or divorce, as same-sex marriage is not recognised in China, meaning the outcome of each case is uncertain and inconsistent.

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Shanghai resident Zhang Peiyi has been fighting to see her children since 2020, after a difficult separation. Photo: AP
SpaceX

Musk to move SpaceX and X from California to Texas over transgender law

Musk called a law blocking schools from forcing teachers to notify parents about changes to a student’s gender identity ‘the final straw’.

Books and literature

How Michelle Zauner is preserving the Korean half of her identity

Michelle Zauner, of pop band Japanese Breakfast, chronicled her relationship with her mum and her Korean identity in her first book, Crying in H Mart. In her second, she will trace her language journey.

United States

In the US, LGBTQ librarians grapple with attacks on books – and on themselves

People who identify as LGBTQ say they are facing increasing difficulties at work, ranging from being repeatedly misgendered to physically assaulted.

Librarian June Meissner uses a computer at a workstation on the second floor of the Boise Public Library in Boise, Idaho on June 6. Photo: AP
Japan

Japan’s top court rules trans woman ‘father’ of girl born after switch

‘If a child cannot seek recognition because of a gender change, he or she cannot receive support as a dependent or become an heir,’ the ruling said.

Children in the Chinatown of Yokohama. Japan’s top court on Friday recognised a transgender woman as the “father” of her 3-year-old daughter conceived using her frozen sperm. Photo: Xinhua
LGBTQ

5 prominent LGBT Republicans and their politics

As right-wing attacks on the LGBT community go into overdrive, some Republicans who have come out remain loyal to their conservative beliefs, from Peter Thiel to Caitlyn Jenner

Fame and celebrity

7 celebrities who use they/them pronouns, from Janelle Monáe to Elliot Page

The Umbrella Academy star Elliot Page came out as trans in 2020, and Halsey also quietly changed their pronouns on their socials to ‘she/they’, saying it ‘feels most authentic to me’

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