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What does it feel like to be a sexual minority in Hong Kong?

Video | What does it feel like to be a sexual minority in Hong Kong?

Fame and celebrity

Who is Christian Hogue, the model spotted on a yacht with Pedro Pascal?

Hong Kong celebrities and icons

Profile | How trailblazing Hong Kong guitarist Ellen Joyce Loo chose to speak her truth

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Crime

Armed police officers to be deployed for UK’s biggest Pride festival

Following the deadly attack at Berlin’s Pride, police said officers would be stationed at Britain’s Brighton and Hove event this weekend.

Flowers and rainbow flags in front of the Brandenburg Gate commemorating the victims of a car attack on Berlin’s Pride event. On Monday, the UK said armed officers would be deployed at this weekend’s Brighton and Hove Pride. Photo: AP
Germany

Germany releases second suspect in deadly Berlin Pride parade attack

The first suspect, a 21-year-old man with a ‌record of Islamist ‌extremist activity, was shot dead on Sunday.

Germany

Suspect in Berlin Pride attack shot dead by police after day-long manhunt

German-born Isis sympathiser involved in Saturday ramming was known to domestic intelligence authorities.

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Art

Hong Kong artist channels Leslie Cheung film Farewell My Concubine for live show

Berlin-based Isaac Chong Wai’s all-male Hong Kong show An Intimate Surrender draws on the 1993 gender-fluid romance to explore vulnerability.

A scene from Isaac Chong Wai’s An Intimate Surrender, running at Hong Kong’s Tai Kwun Contemporary until August 9. The live-art show draws heavily on the 1993 movie Farewell My Concubine starring Leslie Cheung to explore intimacy and collective vulnerability through movement. Photo: courtesy of Tai Kwun
Asian cinema: Hong Kong film

Why Jacob Cheung’s Cageman and Intimates became his most memorable films

In Cageman, Cheung leaned on social observations and light drama. In lesbian romance Intimates, he focused on romance, not sexual passion.

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Germany

German police hunt man with Islamist ties after 1 killed at Berlin Pride parade

A woman died and at least 16 were injured when a van drove into a crowd celebrating at the festival’s closing party.

Fame and celebrity

Who is Kevin Sobieski? Meet Andy Cohen’s new Instagram-official boyfriend

Sobieski had dated Oscar-winning composer Benj Pasek before meeting The Real Housewives executive producer at a July 4th party last year.

Andy Cohen hard-launched his relationship with Kevin Sobieski on Instagram, on July 18. Photo: @bravoandy/Instagram
Fame and celebrity

Meet Benjamin Beatty, who just walked the red carpet with mum Annette Bening

One of the actress’ 4 children with screen legend Warren Beatty, Benjamin made his theatre debut this year in ‘Master Harold’... and the Boys.

Annette Bening and her son Benjamin Beatty attend Apple TV’s premiere of Lucky in Los Angeles on July 13. Photo: AFP
Fame and celebrity

Meet Gabrielle Policano, who plays Elle’s queer friend in the Legally Blonde prequel

Much like their on-screen character, the actor is also queer; they starred opposite Nicole Kidman in A24’s erotic thriller, Babygirl, in 2024.

Women and gender

Indonesia’s anti-LGBT education push raises concern

Germany

German far-right activist sent to men’s prison despite gender change

Liebich, who was sentenced as a man, legally changed gender after Germany’s Self-Determination Act came into effect in 2024.

Marla-Svenja Liebich, a convicted German far-right extremist formerly known as Sven Liebich, is escorted by Czech prison service to the regional court on May 18. Photo: AFP
Indonesia

Indonesia’s anti-LGBT education push raises concerns about stigmatising youth

Critics warn the new material to discourage the spread of ‘LGBT culture’ could backfire with consequences for young people.

Protesters march with banners against the LGBT community in Banda Aceh in December 2017. Photo: AFP
Gun violence in the US

Suspect in Charlie Kirk killing expressed regret after shooting, roommate says

In a video interview played in court, Tyler Robinson’s ex-partner says the suspect wept and planned to surrender to police.

Fame and celebrity

Meet Elliot Page’s comedian girlfriend of Hong Kong descent, Julia Shiplett

The Umbrella Academy star hard-launched his relationship with Shiplett last year; the pair later made a glamorous red-carpet debut at Milan Fashion Week.

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US, Israel war on Iran

US gave Tehran secret data on Iranian asylum seekers, lawsuit alleges

The data includes details on protesters and members of the LGBT community who applied for asylum to avoid ‘grave danger’, the lawsuit claims.

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US senators wrote to Secretary of State Marco Rubio in February to raise concerns about sending detainees to a country where they face persecution or torture, a lawsuit claims. Photo: AFP

At 32, how a university lecturer became Mr Gay Japan’s first Taiwanese finalist

Taiwanese lecturer Nick Kueh talks about breaking academic barriers, championing LGBTQ education, queer visibility across Asia and more.

United States

‘YMCA’ Village People singer Victor Willis dies at 74

With flamboyant costumes and choreography, the group targeted disco’s large gay audience in the late 1970s with camp fantasy characters.

United States

US Supreme Court upholds state bans on transgender student athletes

Trump said the ‘ridiculous situation’ of ‘men playing in women’s sports’ was now ‘off the table’ after the hotly contested culture war fight.

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Women celebrate the US Supreme Court’s final rulings of its nine-month term, including a decision that cleared the way for states to impose restrictions on transgender athletes in schools. Photo: Reuters
Turkey

Turkish police detain dozens at Istanbul Gay Pride event held despite ban

Since 2015, the annual Pride march has been almost systematically banned and suppressed.

People being detained in Istanbul on Sunday. Photo: AP
Art

Hong Kong LGBTQ community braves storm to recall pre-internet-era memories

Black rain couldn’t dampen the mood at ‘Offline Memories’ at Eaton HK, where art and printed images evoke human connections in a bygone era.

Art

World’s first Chinese LGBTQ museum spotlights overlooked community

Out Museum in San Francisco’s Chinatown gives artists from China and the Chinese diaspora a platform to tell their stories.

Russia

Over 1,100 foreigners granted ‘anti-woke’ Russian visas last year

Germans, French and Americans top the list of recipients, according to Russia’s Foreign Ministry.

People take in the sights outside the Kremlin in downtown Moscow on June 5. Photo: EPA
Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals

Mpox in Hong Kong: what to know about the virus and sauna-linked outbreak

The SCMP sheds light on the situation in the city and globally, including how to prevent infection.

The Hu-Tong club in Mong Kok has been closed since May 26. Photo: Karma Lo
Women and gender

Pride Month 2026 marked by backslide in LGBTQ rights

United States

Court blocks US military removing transgender troops for now

Appeals court shields current service members from discharge while leaving wider enlisting restrictions in place.

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